"You may find a figure from a recent national poll as startling as I did. In a joint study with Deloitte titled, “2008 JA Worldwide® / Deloitte Teen Ethics Survey,” which was released on Dec. 15, 2008, Junior Achievement stated in its press release: “A new poll of 750 teens from Junior Achievement and Deloitte and conducted by Opinion Research shows that more than one-in-four teens (27 percent) think behaving violently is sometimes, often or always acceptable.”

In a few years, these teens will be in the workplace. This information is disturbing on many levels. When these teens reach adulthood in a few years, the implications for the workplace are sobering. As quoted in the Junior Achievement press release mentioned above, David W. Miller, Ph.D., Director of the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative, and professor of business ethics at Princeton University said: "Employers will have their hands full if a quarter of teens grow up still willing to resort to violence and other unethical behavior when it comes to making decisions about how to settle differences, protect their interests or get ahead."..."
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Source: HRTools

"The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) has launched a letter-writing campaign demanding that Nickelodeon and Burger King immediately pull a new, highly sexualized, television ad for SpongeBob SquarePants Kids Meals.  The ad, viewable above, features The King singing a remix of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s 1990’s hit song, "Baby Got Back” with the new lyrics, “I like square butts and I cannot lie.”  The ad shows images of The King singing in front of women shaking their behinds for the camera intercut with images of SpongeBob dancing along   “It’s bad enough when companies use a beloved media character like SpongeBob to promote junk food to children, but it’s utterly reprehensible when that character simultaneously promotes objectified, sexualized images of women,” said CCFC director Dr. Susan Linn, a psychologist at the Judge Baker Children’s Center..."
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Source: Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC)

Discussion between Christine Carter and Kelly Corrigan on how to praise children.

Source: GreaterGood Science Center