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...professionals in relevant specialties should develop strategies to modify or mitigate the impact of the challenges, both biological and social, young people have to face. The answers to the optimal planning for producing the next generation of self-sustaining citizens have important implications for our own future, because the youth of today are the adults of tomorrow. Angela Fan Taipei...
Even professionals devoted to marketing seem concerned about some of the brand-building tactics. According to a poll of youth marketers conducted by Harris Interactive earlier this year, 91% of those surveyed said that kids are being pitched to in ways that they don't even notice, and 61% believe that advertising to children starts too young. At what age do they think it's O.K.? A majority of the pros in the poll think it's appropriate to start advertising to kids at age 7, even though they feel that children can't "effectively separate fantasy from reality...
...prologue to his memoir [Clinton] talks about one of the desires of his youth was someday to write a great book,” Porter said. “He concludes with his evaluation: ‘As for the great book, who knows? It sure is a good story.’ Good stories, however, are better if they are grounded in facts...
...obtuse rhetoric about adolescent moodiness was insulting to a large portion of today's youth, myself included. Many American teenagers are well-informed, intelligent citizens, and it's inappropriate to describe us as immoderate and out of control. Characterizing teen behavior as "exasperating" simply reflects stale stereotypes that do harm to the reputation of an entire age group. It is inadequate to dismiss adolescent angst as the result of structural changes in the brain. Jim Fields Mountain View...
...keep her motivated. But the real quest, Kendall says - the true source of her sailing passion - "is getting into that mind space that creates the energy which makes you incredibly powerful when you race - that's the third dimension of competition." Partly, she says, it's about rediscovering her youth, when performing was based on intuition, instinct and feeling. Experience eats away at those forces, the confidence goes, bad thoughts fill the gap, and "you completely spin yourself out." Rebuilding that instinct, and making it congruent with your life, restores a sense of direction and awareness of self and others...