April 10, 2009 Feel like you’re interacting with your family via text message? Facing screens more than each other? Using drive time as quality time and packing parental fun into cellular size? Kids and parents, come see yourselves and each other in a whole new way! One month from today on Mother's Day, Actress Melanie Chartoff, screen voice for The Rugrats mom, Didi Pickles … [Read more...]
Mother’s Day Improv With the Mother of ‘The Rugrats!’
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: acting classes, acting out, Actress, AFTRA, Amy-Jussel, celebrities, Chartoff Teaching, Didi Pickles, Facebook Marketplace, find your voice, GNO, imagination, Improv, Improvisational Workshops, Kids, Melanie Chartoff, Mothers Day, National Institute for Play, parent play date, play, role play, Rugrats Movie, SAG, Stuart Brown, teens, theater, voice talent, voiceover, youth
Daily Good: Media That Can Fuel Kids’ Souls: Bella & Tarra
Many of us have seen the classic Stuart Brown National Institute of Play viral video of the polar bear and sled dogs making the rounds many times over as the quintessential ‘odd couple’ that turns the predator/prey instinct on its ear… It’s worth using as a childhood ‘teaching moment’ about stereotypes, unexpected outcomes, friendship, … [Read more...]
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Animal Odd Couple, Animal Planet, animals, Assignment America, Bella, Bella and Tarra, compassion, Daily Good, devotion, Dog devotion, elephant and dog, Elephant Sanctuary, Elephants, Kids, National Institute of Play, polar bear and husky, polar bear and sled dogs, Steve Hartman, Stuart Brown, Tarra, teens, unlikely friends, viral animal videos