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Teen Health Dialogues: Coming of Age in A Sex Saturated Culture

February 18, 2010 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Feb. 21, 2015 Update! Speaking of teen health dialogues, here's more on Shaping Youth about 2014's YTH.org (Youth Tech Health) Live event (sneak peak of 2015 sessions here) and a heads up/save the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: abstinence, Advocates-for-youth, Amplify, CDC, Deb-Levine, doctors, health dialog, health dialogues, healthy teens, Isis-Inc, Kinsey Institute, KQED, parenting, Pew Internet, Radical Parenting, Say what?, SexTech, sexuality, Stanford Children's Hospital, stress, Teen Health Van, teen sexual health, Teen talk, teens, The California Report, vanessa van petten, youth

New Years Media Messages: Packaging Boyhood Meets The Hangover

December 29, 2009 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Dec. 29, 2009 Last night I watched ‘The Hangover’ rated R, which I’d heard described by several YOUNG teens (meaning unable to buy a ticket unless sneaking in via diff. multiplex theater) as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: ad regulations, alcohol, alcohol in the media, alcoholic, alcopops, bartender, beer, bender, binge drinking, Binge to Blackout, boys will be boys, Bratz, breaking cycles, buzz, cads, CAMY, cartoons, CCFC, chug it, Common Sense Media, Counter-marketing, Damaging Drek, date rape drugs, designated driver, dope, drinking, drinking and driving, drunk driving, Frank Baker, frat boy, goofy, Greek, hazings, hit me, jello shots, KoolAid, liquor, lyn mikel, MADD, Marin Institute, Mark Tappan, Media Literacy Clearinghouse, Media-Education-Foundation, Media-Influence-Kids, media-literacy, MEF, MLC, MTV reality shows, Naked Brothers Band, NFL, out of control, Packaging-Boyhood, parTAY, partying, players, roofies, rootbeer, saving our sons, Sharon Lamb, sitcoms, slurred speech, sober, spiked drinks, spin the bottle, suite life of Zack and Cody, teachable moments, teaching your teen how to drink, teen brain development, teens, The Hangover, toxic cues, toys encouraging alcohol use, tweenager, tweens, vanessa van petten, VH1

Josh in a Box: Helpful Advice For Parents of Teens!

October 21, 2009 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Oct. 21, 2009 What if I told you a few of my favorite advice slingers and youth analysis pros aren’t even parents at all? There’s Anastasia Goodstein of Ypulse speaking from the GenX pulpit (ok, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: advice, advice slingers, Anastasia-Goodstein, as seen on TV, attention, be yourself, being labeled, branding, bullying, challenging, childhood, choices, cliques, core values, Dear Abby for teens, Digital, empowerment, foster parents, freak, free to be me, Gen X, Gen Y, generation, Global Fund for Women, healthy, Hey Josh for Grownups, Hey Josh!, Hey Josh.com, identity, In Her Shoes, influences, inspiring, Inspiring-Teens, Josh in a box, Josh Shipp, Jump Shipp, Kids, know who you are, labeling, marketing, Media-as-super-peer, Millenials, motivational speakers, MTV, negative labels, Odd Girl Out, outsider, parenting, Peer pressure, Preteen-Identity, pundits, punk, Radical Parenting, reality, relational aggression, relationships, Respect Rx, School Loop, teacup parenting, teens, teens and parents, troubled teens, vanessa van petten, verbal abuse, who am I?, YPulse

Seven Sensational Blogs About Girls (All Things Girl Pt.2)

December 5, 2008 by Amy Jussel 25 Comments

I’ve learned something about myself from running this All Things Girl series…As much as I love it, I miss being ‘in the moment’ sharing life in ‘real … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: adolescence, Africa, All Things Girl, Amy-Jussel, APA, arts, Batsiranai Project, Bella Sara, bottlecap art, children, Claire-Mysko, Daughters, Doug Engelbart, Eco-Childs-Play, Eileen Clegg, Empowering girls, GAC, Gender, Girl blogs, Girl Child, girl culture, Girl Media, Girl Mogul, girls, Girls for a Change, Girls helping girls, Girls Horse Club, girls sports, Growing Up Girl, infomania, internet, Media X, misogyny, MIT Media Lab, MOW, New Moon, NextNow, On-Teens-Today, One World Childrens Fund, OWCF, Packaging-Girlhood, preteens, Program for the Future, project girl, readergirlz, Respect Rx, screaming bloody murder, Sejal Hathi, seven sisters, smart girls, So Sioux Me, Tapestries-of-Hope, target women, Teen Ink, teen voices, tweens, vanessa van petten, Visual Insight, you're grounded, Young-People-Who-Rock, zest books, Zimbabwe

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