Citations:tween

English citations of tween

preadolescent

• 1985, Nancy Van Pelt, The Compleat Tween, Review and Herald Pub. Association, →ISBN, →OL:
• 1994 March, Sandi Kahn Shelton, “Kids!”, in Working Mother, →ISSN, page 78:

  Tweens are susceptible to two preventable illnesses: anemia, a low red blood cell count that can cause fatigue and lower endurance, and hepatitis B, which is caused by a virus that's transmitted through sexual activity or blood transfusions and may cause chronic liver damage.

• 1998 October 1, Donna G. Corwin, The Tween Years: A Parent's Guide for Surviving Those Terrific, Turbulent, and Trying Times Between Childhood and Adolescence, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page xi:

  Anyone who lives with a Tween will recognize the following profile. A Tween is part child, part teenager.

• 2000 December, Aeffect, Inc., “Review of Literature to Support Development of the Youth Media Campaign: Exploring How to Motivate Behavior Change Among Tweens in America”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], page 4:

  Tweens—youth that fall in between kids and teens—-are a growing segment of today's population, representing just over 20 million Americans.

• 2004, Bruce Morgan with Deb Odom, Writing Through The Tween Years: Supporting Writers, Grades 3-6, Stenhouse, →ISBN, →OL, page 12:

  Tweens, children between the ages of eight and twelve, are now being studied more by sociologists, educators, and even marketers.

• 2004 August 20, Penny Schwartz, “Beacon Street Girls: the next big tween thing: an interview with Addie Swartz, the creator of the Beacon Street Girls”, in The Jewish Advocate‎^[2], Boston:

  Tweens are kids between the ages of nine and 13, between Barbie and Britney, according to Addie Swartz, an energetic entrepreneur who has emerged onto the commercial scene with Beacon Street Girls, or BSG, as it's known.

• 2004 October 3, Martin Lindstrom with Patricia B. Seybold, BrandChild: Remarkable Insights Into the Minds of Today's Global Kids and Their Relationship with Brands, Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 18:

  They construct their site so it looks as if it's been created by a tween. It's essentially an ad, but it masquerades as a tween talking personally about life, friends and hobbies.

• 2005 January 9, “Sex sells: Marketing and 'age compression'”, in CBC News‎^[3]:

  The industry even has a name for its strategy of getting tweens to buy sexy stuff. It’s called “age compression,” pushing adult products and teen attitude on younger and younger kids.

• 2006 August 8, Sharon Lamb with Lyn Mikel Brown, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 5:

  Little girls become “tweens” before you can blink an eye and corporations are delighted with the buying potential of girls as young as seven or eight. Tween—a combination of teen and between—is a marketing concept developed in the eighties to get kids, primarily girls, to continue buying toys.

• 2007 March 24, “Guise 'n Dolls”, in Boston Legal, season 3, episode 20, spoken by Jerry Espenson (Christian Clemenson):

  What about the sexually explicit music videos and television shows that target the tweens?

• 2008 October 31, Zack and Miri Make a Porno‎^[4] (Movie), spoken by Zack Brown (Seth Rogen):

  Look at Paris Hilton. She throat-fucks a guy in night-vision; now she's selling fragrances to tweens!

• 2009 February 4, Sharon Jayson, “It's cooler than ever to be a tween, but is childhood lost?”, in USA Today‎^[5]:

  The prepubescent children of days gone by have given way to a cooler kid — the tween — who aspires to teenhood but is not quite there yet.

• 2009 December 10, Sarah Beller, “Tween Talk: Too Old For Toys, Too Young For Boys”, in Take the Handle‎^[6]:

  I did some googling (that’s how tweens get their information!), and I’ve learned that the term “tween” describes an 8-13 year old youth who is generally (but not always) female, and is usually pretty into the Jonas Brothers and Bratz dolls.

• 2012 April 23, Lewis Humphries, “Franchises That Have Tweens To Thank For Financial Success”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎^[7]:

  It is this shift that has made tweens one of the most influential social demographics in 2012, and one which is worth $43 billion annually.