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Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller

Youth Culture Today is a 60-second daily radio spot from CPYU and Walt Mueller, now available as a podcast. It provides a quick glance into the world of teenagers and today"s youth culture for parents, youth workers and others who care about kids and want to help them navigate adolescence in ways that bring glory to God.

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Teen Slang

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/14

From time to time I update you on some of the slang you might hear your kids using with each other and their friends. As we get older, we can feel more and more out of touch as it can sound like they are speaking an entirely different language. For example, you might hear them talk about throwing shade, which means to give someone a dirty look. Or, they might refer to an older woman, perhaps even their mom, as a Karen, which is a disparaging way to describe a middle-aged woman who acts self-entitled

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What's Wrong with the World

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/11

The story is told that in the early twentieth century, a London newspaper published an article asking the question, “What’s wrong with the world.” Numerous readers wrote the paper to offer up their answers to the question. The shortest answer received was also the most correct. It came from the brilliant writer and thinker G.K. Chesterton. In his response to the question “what’s wrong with the world?”, Chesterton simply answered with two words, “I am.” Chesterton clearly knew that the world was

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Kids and Hearing Loss

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/10

When I was a little kid in Sunday School, we would sing that familiar “Be Careful” song and eventually get to a verse that began like this: “Be careful little ears what you hear.” Well, my ears certainly aren’t as little as they used to be, both figuratively and literally. And as I’ve grown older I’ve learned that we shouldn’t only be careful about the content we hear, but the actual volume of what we hear. You see, I have ringing in both of my ears. Audiologists are warning parents to watch the

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The Decline in Reading

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/09

Do you remember going to elementary school and having a regularly scheduled weekly library day? Several generations of kids looked forward to that trip in a line down the school hallway to return and then take out a book or two. We have to wonder if today’s kids feel the same excitement for library day. I’m guessing it doesn’t. The U.S. Department of Education is reporting that among our nine-year-olds, the percentage who say they never or hardly ever read has risen since 1984 from nine percent to

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Fentanyl An Online Drug Threat

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/08

Fentanyl is a pharmaceutical synthetic opioid drug that is approved as a pain killer. The drug, which is fifty times more potent than morphine, is typically prescribed in the form of transdermal patches or lozenges. Not surprisingly, Fentanyl is also manufactured illegally and sold illicitly, and is 100 times more potent than heroin. It is often times mixed with heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana, usually without the user’s knowledge, in a combination that can be deadly. It is also

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Needed - A Sexual Counter Revolution

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/07

Boise State University political science professor Scott Yenor wrote a powerful piece calling for a sexual counter-revolution in last November’s edition of First Things magazine. Yenor says that in the past, people believed that sexual modesty and chastity were virtues. Marriage was to be a monogamous and permanent relationship between a man and a woman. But as a result of the sexual revolution, this has changed. What Yenor calls followers of Christ to is what he calls a sexual counter-revolution

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Code Adam and Jesus

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/04

Several years ago I was in a Home Depot store when I saw all the employees drop what they were doing and head to the doorways. I heard the walkie talkie of one employee who was hurriedly passing me bark out instructions on a “Code Adam.” In a matter of seconds I figured out the meaning of a Code Adam. I looked toward the garden center doorway and saw a woman walking briskly in with a smile on her face and a two-year-old boy in her arms. She was met mid-stride by a relieved mother whose little boy

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The Gift of an Involved Dad

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/03

One of the greatest gifts I received in my life was the gift of an active and involved father. My father not only took the time to be around and spend time with me, but to teach me about Jesus and what it means to live with Christ as the Lord of my life. Those were great benefits to having a loving and involved father. But there’s more! Researchers tell us that when a dad gets involved in his child’s life, that child will learn more, perform better in school, and exhibit healthier behavior. Children

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Gender Confusion

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/02

We live in a world where our kids are learning that gender is something that they are free to choose, rather than something that is assigned biologically at birth. According to Genesis, God has established the gender binary, creating his image-bearers as either male or female. Listen to this statement from the American College of Pediatricians: “Among humans, sex is a dimorphic, innate and immutable trait established at fertilization by sex-determining genes located on the X and Y chromosomes. This

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Kids, Sleep, and Brain Development

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/03/01

New research from the Boston Children’s Hospital analyzed the sleeping patterns of nine to eleven year old children in an effort to see the effect of inadequate sleep on brain development. This period of life, known as early adolescence, is a critical time in a child’s brain development. The researchers looked at sleep duration, the time it typically takes a child to fall asleep, how often a child wakes up from sleep, difficulty falling back to sleep, breathing difficulty, snoring, nightmares, and

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Kids and Anxiety

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/28

I recently read the results of a new survey on college students and mental health. According to the study, one-third of first-year college students have or develop moderate to severe anxiety or depression. This data affirms what we’ve known for some time, that is, that there’s been a deterioration of mental health in college students. Parents, we can’t wait until our kids get to college to help them deal with the issues that lead to anxiety. Rather, we need to be building a strong foundation in

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Being Performative

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/25

In his play “As You Like It”, William Shakespeare has his character Jacques utter these now-famous words: “All the world’s a stage, and all men and women are merely players.” If those words were true when first written way back in 1599, they are even more true today. Thanks to social media and smartphone technology, all of us, if we desire, can stand on stage twenty-four seven for all the world to see. And stand on stage we do, regardless of our age. That’s why the folks at Merriam-Webster added the

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Smartphone Wisdom from a Youthworker

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/24

My friend Rachel recently wrote these words of Godly advice on smartphones to the students in her youth group. What you give your time and attention to is what you really worship. Where your eyes are, there is your treasure and your heart as well. Technology is as powerful as dynamite. It’s explosive power can be used to build or destroy. I am concerned that it could be destroying us if we are not careful. I strongly encourage you to put your phone away an hour before bed at night and don’t pick

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Kintsugi and our Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/23

Parents, if you are looking for a visual metaphor to share with your kids about the redemptive work God does in the lives of broken sinners, google the word Kintsugi. This Japanese word is spelled K-I-N-T-S-U-G-I. Kintsugi, translated “golden joinery” is the Japanese art of repairing a valuable broken pottery tea bowl that’s been dropped and shattered, by mending the breaks with a glue compound mixed with gold or some other precious metal. In today’s world, we like to Super Glue our broken dishes in

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Pushing Back on Teen Drug Abuse

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/22

The CDC reports that drug overdose deaths in the United States were four times more common in 2018 than they were just twenty years earlier. The CDC also reports that drug overdose deaths increased by thirty percent during the pandemic. While there are many reasons a person turns to drugs and alcohol, one strategy we can employ to counter substance abuse and addiction is to encourage our kids involvement with a peer group that doesn’t support drug and alcohol use. Substance abuse is strongly related

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The Danger of Safetyism

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/21

It’s very easy to get swept up into the spirit of the times. Because we live in the midst of culture, we can easily live into the values of that culture without taking the time to consider whether those values are good values, or bad values. One aspect of the spirit of our current times is what has been called safetyism. The term was first coined by writers Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff in their book, The Coddling of the American Mind. They use the term to describe a belief system in which

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Your Kids and Relationships

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/18

Parents, today I want to encourage you to conduct a two-pronged relationship check. First, take time to take stock of your family relationships and closeness. Kids who are engaged with their families and who know they are loved are less prone to try to find a secondary family in a unique peer group subculture. Of course, our teens value their social connections, and they will always gravitate toward a friend group of some sort as they walk the path to adult independence. And this is where you need

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Billie Eilish and Pornography

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/17

Parents, I want to share a warning with you today. It’s a warning that comes from an unexpected source. Twenty year old chart-topping musician Bille Eilish was recently a guest on the Howard Stern radio show. During the interview, Eilish talked about the effect that pornography has had on her brain and her life. She says she started watching pornography when she was eleven. She went deeper and deeper into the addiction as she grew older, and it completely misshaped her view of sexuality. It has

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Parents Need to Say "No"

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/16

Why do so many parents tiptoe gingerly around their children in today’s world? More and more parents are afraid to step up, take the reins, and assume their God-given position of authority. Instead, parents have become like butlers, available to wait on and serve their kids’ every desire and whim. Fearing rejection, we sometimes go against our better judgment and God’s design to say yes when we should be saying no. God established the family with a pecking order. Those who are older and wiser are

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Kids, Binge Drinking, and the Brain

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/15

Besides warning our kids about the spiritual and legal issues related to underage drinking, we must also warn them about the damage that underage drinking does to their still not-fully-formed brains. In today’s world, some of our kids are engaging in binge drinking. That is, consuming five or more drinks in a period of two hours. Researchers have now found conclusive evidence that drinking during adolescence can lead to structural damages in the brain that can easily result in memory and cognitive

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