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12-May-2012
Teenage Entrepreneur’s Brainchild Has Personal Style in the ‘Bag’ by Combining Creativity and Charity
New York, NY (PRWEB) August 10, 2011
Personal style comes in many forms, and kids love to get into the act by creating distinctive accessory items that define who they are. At first Taylor Greenberg Goldy, now a 17 year-old high school senior in Manhattan, decorated tote bags and stuffed them with gifts. She then donated the bags to hospitals where children were being treated for cancer. Last year, at the Strike Out Pediatric Cancer Bowl-A-Thon, which her brother organized to benefit the Pediatric Cancer Foundation, Greenberg Goldy worked with more than 60 volunteers to create 200 of her colorful bags. Once the bags were decorated and stuffed, she distributed them to children in local hospitals.
Soon the young entrepreneur realized that she could start her own company and sell kits that would enable other kids to design their own bags and raise money for charity at the same time. “Kids love to be creative and have something that no one else has,” said Greenberg Goldy. Thus, the Design-A-Bag craft kit was born, along with her company Charitotes of which she is now the President.
Design-A-Bag craft kits, which will officially be available in October, will come with a plain white canvas bag, stickers, stencils, a sketchbook, crayons, fabric markers and other materials that children can use to design their own tote bags. As part of the full roll-out of the product, the always on-her-toes Greenberg Goldy will offer a 12-pack kit that parents can use as favors for kids’ holiday and birthday parties as well as Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs.
What’s a girl to do when she wants to create a cool product that’s not only perfect for kids and tweens, but one that provides the younger set the opportunity to give back to others? In addition to the creation of her fashion-forward and environmentally-friendly gift item, Greenberg Goldy thought it was important to donate part of the profits to a cause close to her heart – the fight against pediatric cancer. As a result, 10% of sales from the kit will be donated to the Pediatric Cancer Foundation.
“Every day more and more gift items come into the marketplace, but do they really enrich our lives?” said Greenberg Goldy. “It is becoming more and more commonplace in our society to educate kids that it is better to give than receive. My goal was to develop a stylish product that was not only fun and creative for kids, but that would help someone else with every purchase. I can’t think of a more worthy cause than the Pediatric Cancer Foundation.”
Now at every party where Design-A-Bags are present, kids will learn that the true celebration is in helping others!
Design-A-Bag craft kits will be available for the suggested retail price of $ 20 and can be purchased at http://www.Charitotes.com starting October 1. Greenberg Goldy is hopeful that the tote bag craft kits will be available at retailers nationwide by next year.
Charitotes will host a Design-A-Bag craft kit preview at the 2011 New York International Gift Fair, which will take place at the Jacob Javits Center from August 13-18. The media is invited to stop by booth #30004 to see samples and talk with Taylor Greenberg Goldy.
To find out about carrying Design-A-Bags or to obtain more information about Charitotes contact Taylor Greenberg Goldy at sales(at)charitotes(dot)com.
For media inquiries, including samples and interview requests, please contact Paul Niemi at 360.739.9689 or paulniemi(at)hotmail(dot)com.
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10-May-2012
What Your Mother Never Told You: A Survival Guide for Teenage Girls
What Your Mother Never Told You: A Survival Guide for Teenage Girls goes where no other book for teenagers has dared go—to the heart of questions our daughters are asking and really, really want answered.
Nothing is left unsaid in What Your Mother Never Told You. Richard Dudum does not shy away from touchy subjects. He delves into deep issues and addresses them bluntly, including teen sensitive current issues involving social networking Web sites like Facebook, email and the Internet.
Topics include drinking at a party, how to get up and leave before it’s too late, how to deal with manipulative boys, and how to avoid the wrong place and wrong time. There are also chapters to help teens better understand and communicate with their parents. Teens will find effective tools, strategies, and even role-plays, providing commonsense advice in language that they can understand and instantly apply.
With this book, “Richard Dudum says the girls will anticipate and avoid people, places and situations that could put them in harm’s way” by emphasizing two themes: the importance of self-respect, and having effective communication skills.
What Your Mother Never Told You provides answers to help teens decide “who they are and who they are not,” and guide them to make more informed and thoughtful decisions.
What Your Mother Never Told You’ offers clear-sighted perspective and no-nonsense self-help advice from a father with the ability to convey tough love in a kind and supportive manner.
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06-May-2012
Michael W. Miller Warns of Link Between Teenage Depression, Drug Use
New York, New York (PRWEB) April 04, 2012
It is common knowledge that both depression and alcohol use are significant problems amongst teenagers, particularly those in junior and senior high school. According to a new study, however, these two issues might actually be connected. New research indicates that high school-aged students who exhibit symptoms of depression are more likely than their peers to turn to drinking and smoking. The study has won the praise of Michael W. Miller, a neuroscientist whose own research has yielded similar findings.
In fact, the study is not limited to alcohol and cigarettes. It also reveals that teens showing signs of depression are more likely to use marijuana and hard drugs throughout their high school years and beyond. The conclusion of the study is that the signs of depression first reveal themselves during the teenage years—and teenagers turn to drug use and drinking as a form of self-medication.
Michael W. Miller agrees. The neuroscientist praises the new study, and says its findings are convincing. “This insightful study provides intriguing data supporting the concept that substances are used by young teenagers to self-medicate for depression,” notes Michael W. Miller. He goes on to point out that the data is consistent with one of his own, previous studies. “This is consistent with the so-called ‘alcoholism generator hypothesis’ that implies early substance abuse by teenagers is primed by fetal exposures.”
Michael W. Miller makes these comments with reference to his own 2006 study, which indicates that fetal development can make an individual more or less prone to substance abuse as a teenager.
The main thrust of this new study, however, pertains to the relationship between depression symptoms and substance abuse—and particularly of the role of drugs and alcohol as means of self-medication. The study confirms that “those individuals who had more depressive symptoms in ninth grade reported faster increases than their peers in smoking, marijuana, and hard drug use… across the high school years.” As the study notes, all of these substances are known to have mood-enhancing effects. Their use for self-medication, then, is easy to fathom.
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29-Apr-2012
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19-Apr-2012
Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat-Camper Weighs in on Living Large, Losing Weight, And How Parents Can (And Can’t) Help
We’ve been inundated lately with books and articles about childhood obesity. Most offer cultural critique or nutrition and exercise advice — in tones that are alternately appalled and patronizing. Few address the psychological, medical, cultural and developmental complexities affecting overweight kids. The truth is, many parents already know that Whoppers are fattening. What they don’t know is how to effectively help an often discouraged, often reluctant kid on what will be a difficult, life-long journey.
Abby Ellin, a journalist and former fat-camper whose parents’ attempts to “save her” from fatness proved counterproductive, has had a lifelong interest in figuring out how they might have done it better, and an abiding compassion for overweight kids. In Teenage Waistland she shares the story of her own adolescent struggle with food and weight, and journeys with hope, skepticism, and humor through the landscape of today’s diet culture. She visits camps and community programs, and talks to experts, kids and their parents, seeking to answer these questions: What can parents say that kids will hear? Why don’t kids exercise more and eat less when they’re dying to be thinner? What treatment methods actually work? Willpower, or surrender? Shame, or inspiration?
Teenage Waistland is ultimately clarifying and provocative for anyone who’s ever wrestled with weight issues. One size does not fit all when it comes to weight loss, and the better we understand that, the more likely we are to be able to help our kids.
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