Feb. 13, 2015 Talk about Angry Birds. Parents have been swept into the viral vortex of a gazillion ambient ads piling on to the relentless hype of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie opening today.From sex … [Read more...]
50 Shades of Disempowerment: Teach Your Children Well
February 12, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Feb. 12, 2015 “What people do in private is their own business.” But what happens when Hollywood makes a movie glorifying, promoting and normalizing violence against women and coerced sex? It … [Read more...]
Reading Between the Lines: A Media Literacy Education in Domestic Violence
January 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Jan. 30, 2015 For the first time ever, the NFL will air a pitch perfect, poignant PSA by No More.org against domestic violence that resonates on multiple levels and can be used as a tool to uncork … [Read more...]
Circle of 6 Campus Safety App: What It is And What it Isn’t
February 27, 2013 by 1 Comment
Update: March 7, 2013 It's official! The President Signed VAWA! Feb. 28, 2013 Finally! The Violence Against Women Act has passed both the House and the Senate and is moving on for final signing by … [Read more...]
Public Health: DV Grammys, Too Short Of A Memory, Sexualization
February 29, 2012 by 16 Comments
Update Feb. 12, 2016 With the 2016 Grammys coming up this weekend, I wanted to add two posts by the author of The Achilles Effect and Boys, Sex & Media as a ponderable question about what we're … [Read more...]
Love Is Respect: Teen Texting Tools Aim To Dial Down Dating Abuse
October 4, 2011 by 14 Comments
Feb. 2, 2015 Update February marks the beginning of "Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month" and given the powerful PSA from "No More" on domestic violence in the Super Bowl yesterday that I wrote about … [Read more...]
Selling Reluctant Readers: 10 Marketing Tactics To Amp Up Fun
August 27, 2011 by 10 Comments
Feb. 14, 2017 Valentine's Day Update: More ways to encourage reading, with therapy dogs (via MindshiftKQED Learning) and a few "Kidlit" picks for Valentine's Day that streamed across my desk, here … [Read more...]
Man Down? Girl Up, Rihanna. Own Your Influence.
June 6, 2011 by 12 Comments
June 6, 2011 We interrupt our positive picks programming to hand over a pail and a scrub brush so parents can prep for the latest mop up of "young and the RECKLESS"... This week in Rihanna Redux, … [Read more...]
Letting Go of 2010: Thoughts On Media Messaging
January 1, 2011 by 5 Comments
Jan 1, 2011 No secret I’ve been challenged in 2010 on various fronts, and I’m trying really hard to ‘let go’ of some of the frustrations knowing there’s no quick fix for some of the blindingly surreal … [Read more...]
Backdraft: DV=”Differing Views” on Dating/Domestic Violence
August 9, 2010 by 13 Comments
August 9, 2010 Consider this a ‘preliminary post’ to address the Eminem/Rihanna video controversy that’s scorching the blogosphere with the Love the Way You Lie lyrics being deconstructed to a … [Read more...]
Predatory Practices as Sport? Boys to Men & Swaggerfests
June 15, 2010 by 9 Comments
June 15, 2010 Forget the fact that my freshman daughter is friends with JV football guys… ...Or that digital reputations flinging about on social media (FB, Formspring, etc) warn of male ‘players’ … [Read more...]
What Does a 13-Year Old Boy Know About DATING Violence?
May 9, 2010 by 14 Comments
Feb. 2013 update: First and foremost, yesterday's US Senate/VAWA vote overwhelmingly passed reauthorization and now moves on to the House of Representatives. What IS the Violence Against Women … [Read more...]
