The New Back to School “Must-Have”? Setting Restrictions on Cell Phones
By Amanda Grossman-Scott “He has to walk half a mile from the school to me, how do I know he’ll be safe?!” This was my defense for wanting to give my 8 year old son a cell phone at the beginning of his 3rd grade year. My husband shook his head at what I think of as my...
Kids, Media & Intimacy: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
By Amy Jussel of Shaping Youth Update Feb. 13, 2015 With what many of us have deemed as 50 Shades of Abuse and disempowerment blitzing the media on Valentine’s Day, glamorizing violence against women, the impact of media’s inescapable cues to kids about what...The Fifty Shades Effect: Disempowerment of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
By Amanda Grossman-Scott “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 becomes the business of everyone to examine the message our kids...
Fifty Discussions to Combat Fifty Shades
By Dina Alexander, MS Recently, talk about a certain movie has become unavoidable in the mass media: Fifty Shades of Grey. It’s being marketed as a love story, but it’s so much more like a tragedy. It’s not enough to boycott or roll your eyes in silence at the...
