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Review written by Leola Dublin Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes should actually be subtitled A Blueprint for Deprogramming Your Daughters. The authors are academics, – developmental psychologists, actually – but they make it clear in the introduction, that they are not writing as academics. Instead, they are writing as mothers, teachers, and […]
Did you miss me? I miss you. I went off to Utah for my sister’s wedding. My 7-year-old daughter, Ainsley, was wedding crazed. Just looney over the whole wedding thing. Weddings are like crack for girls. It’s all that romance marketing. Eh, or maybe it’s just how we’re biologically programed. Either way. I think it […]
From Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood: Three years ago, a newly formed company called BusRadio brazenly announced their intention to “take student-targeted marketing to the next level.” Their plan? Install “free” radio equipment on school buses across the country so that children would be forced to listen to advertisements, and to promotions for BusRadio’s […]
Dear Mr. President: As the nation celebrates the first Mothers and Fathers Days since your inauguration, we appeal to you as a fellow parent to help us protect our children from an onslaught of marketing that undermines good parenting and hurts young people. You have rightly observed that for all the benefits that the media […]
This story ran last week without photographs (sorry BB Mama). The photographs are imperative to the story, so I’m rerunning it. Visit Black Belt Mama’s Blog. I need to first make something very clear. I’ve never burned a bra (they cost too much money to do that and I need mine); and I’ve never gone […]
This is a continuation of the interview with Shaping Youth Director Amy Jussel. Read Part I if you missed it. Using the tactics of industry insiders, Shaping Youth is embedding innovative programs that promote healthier, positive values by using the power of the media turned on itself. Shaping Youths programs are deployed via the digital […]
This is an interview with Amy Jussel, the Founder & Executive Director of Shaping Youth, a nonprofit, nonpartisan consortium dealing with media and marketing’s impact on kids. The interview was conducted by a student. Using the tactics of industry insiders, Shaping Youth is embedding innovative programs that promote healthier, positive values by using the power […]
What do sticky notes have to do with dreaming boldly? I propose that sticky notes can be a tool for girls to see themselves achieving milestones along their path of self actualization. Heres how Begin with a sheet of paper and colorful pens or pencils for brainstorming. Next, spend time with your daughter discovering […]
Thank you to Amy Jussel of Shaping Youth for allowing me to use this wonderful post about an upcoming film we should all make time to see. Using the tactics of industry insiders, Shaping Youth is embedding innovative programs that promote healthier, positive values by using the power of the media turned on itself. Shaping […]
A few regular readers of The Girl Revolution have their own secret blogs. Sit At My Table is written by a lovely woman who has become my virtual friend, but she won’t let me sing her name. She’s on My Team. You’re going to love her poignant poetry. I trundled through, ticking off a thousand […]
Jen Lea is Queen of Financial Peace. Visit Jlogged and you’ll always come away with valuable ways to save your family budget. Being her friend is like Keeping Up With the Jones’ on a Budget. Way more fun and far less guilt. One of the easiest ways to teach our children empowerment is to teach […]
I’m so lucky that Joanne Bamberger, aka PunditMom, let me go to her website and steal great content to use while I was on vacation. The PunditMom household is lucky when it comes to health insurance. Even though we pay the “full freight” for the policy we have, the coverage is pretty good and I […]
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