Youth Culture – August!

Feature youth culture link: How Teenagers’ Faith Practices are Changing

Ashamed of the Gospel? The most striking change was the fact that teenagers today seem much less inclined to have spiritual conversations about their faith in Christ with non-believers.
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Only 19 Percent of Teens Report That They Have Meaningful Relationships with Adults
Only one in five [...]

Youth Culture – Is Pornography a Drug?

Feature youth culture link: How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain

Professionals sometimes fail to understand the power of the compulsion youth are facing, and it is not uncommon for school, religious, or private-sector professionals to advocate a simple treatment plan that is based upon willpower or moral character. Since pornography can be an addiction, these [...]

Youth Culture – Teen’s Social Power, Sex, and Generations

Feature youth culture link: Teen Social Media Influencers Wield Power Online and Offline

The survey dispels the notion that the most engaged teens on a social network are most likely to be home alone on a Saturday night; those teens who are most social online are most social offline
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CDC says, “Teen Boys’ Fear of Impregnating [...]

Youth Culture – Learning Ads, Drinking, and R-rated movies

Feature youth culture link: In a World of Ads, teaching young people how to read them
“Advertising is all around you,” the home page declares in urging youngsters to always ask three questions: “Who is responsible for the ad? What is the ad actually saying? What does the ad want me to do?”
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Youth Culture – Oversexualized

Feature youth culture link:  Oversexualized – A window into todays most popular songs
You gotta love what many of these songs are doing today. They are slippin under the radar and being deemed “clean” by the world’s standards (I addressed that fact in more detail in this blog about the Black Eyed Peas), when the lyrics are anything [...]

Youth Culture – Music and Youth Identity

Feature youth culture link:  Music and youth identity
The famous comedian Bill Cosby once said, “Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” Cosby was certainly correct [...]

Parent’s Minute – Connecting with Teens

Connecting with Teens, by Ron Hammer.
Recently Dr. Ron Hammer shared a helpful seminar for parents of teenagers at a local church, and we wanted to pass it on to you as a resource.  A practicing pastoral psychotherapist, professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, and former pastor, Ron’s goal is to equip parents to understand the complex [...]

Parent’s Minute – Parenting in an Internet age

Parenting in an Internet Age
Here is a quick, 3 minute video about parenting in an Internet Age. It includes establishing boundaries and using an Internet Usage Contract with youth.  Let me know what you think in the comments!

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Here is a Sample Internet Usage Agreement from Homeword.com that was mentioned in the video.  It’s [...]

Youth Culture – How is your daughter’s diet

Feature youth culture link:  Girls and their diets, is your daughter at risk?
They are shunning protein and dairy foods in an apparent effort to keep as thin as their celebrity role models.
The study found that 46 per cent of teenage girls consume too little iron, putting them at risk of anaemia and the associated tiredness [...]

Parent’s Minute – 41

Featured article: Parental Pride and Adolescence at Psychology Today

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