Popularity Ups & Downs
Helpful Research plus Perspective From Parents:
Web of Popularity, Achieved by Bullying
Teens’ Perception of Popularity is Important
Academic Achievement and Peer Acceptance
What To Do When Your Daughter Feels Unpopular
2 or more people take turns adding to each other’s stories – 2 or 3 sentences for each person in each of 5 sections:
- Introduction: Characters are introduced, setting is established, plot might be set up.
- Plot: Events start to happen, trouble begins to brew, a situation is exposed.
- Climax: The real excitement occurs, the reader is left hanging.
- Resolution: Things begin to settle down, many loose ends are tied up.
- Denouement: Events are wrapped up, final fate of characters is established.
Drowning in Sexy Culture: How We can Help our Kids
Books for Parents & Kids – check age appropriateness
Packaging Boyhood by Sharon Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown & Mark Tappan
Packaging Girlhood by Sharon Lamb & Lyn Mikel Brown
Pornland by Gail Dines
So Sexy So Soon by Diane Levin & Jean Kilbourne
Why Do They Act That Way? by David Walsh
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak
Sexualization Info & Resistance
Girls Just Want Respect – for girls 8-14 – part of New Moon Girls online
Mind on the Media – for kids & adults
Powered by Girl – high school & college
Spark.com – for girls 13 & up
Sexuality & Sex Information for Parents
Sexuality Educator Karen Rayne
Sex, etc. - Rutgers University
True Child – for parents
Sexuality & Sex Information for Kids – check age appropriateness
