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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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Valentine's Day, Kids, and Sexuality

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/14

It’s Valentines Day – a day when many of us go out of our way to say “I love you” to those who are special to us. Parents, do you know that expressing love and paying attention to your children and teens actually helps them when it comes to their own sexuality? Research has shown that teens will often use sex as a means to express and satisfy emotional and interpersonal needs that have little or nothing to do with sex. Sexual activity becomes a coping mechanism to deal with the absence of love and

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Bragging and Boasting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/11

One of the trends you can’t miss if you’ve spent any time watching professional football is the increasingly common practice of displaying boastful and arrogant behavior. Whether it’s a quarterback sack, an interception, running for a first down, or scoring a touchdown, there’s usually that moment where the player hops up and flexes their muscles in a pose that seems to say, “I told you! Don’t ever mess with me!”. Seen in the past as a vice, bragging has now become something seen as expected,

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Your Kids are Sinners

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/10

Because I study youth culture, there’s one question I’ve been asked more than any other: What’s the greatest challenge facing teenagers in today’s world? The answer is easy: Sin. In Genesis 3:6 we read that everything God made and declared good came undone through the rebellion of humanity. I am a sinner. My children are sinners. All of us are in need of being fixed, and we can’t fix our selves. We are all in desperate need of redemption through Jesus Christ. While we must never use the reality of

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Instagram Sleep Accounts

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/09

Imagine that you’re a high school sophomore sitting in your 2nd period history class. For some reason, you are extremely tired. You put your head down on your desk and fall asleep. When you wake up, you’re still at the same desk in the very same room, but every other desk is filled with high school seniors sitting in their 3rd period Government class. Panic sets in. Nap-faced and somewhat disoriented, you hop up and run out of the class, while all the seniors and the teacher who allowed you to keep

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Transgenderism and Athletes

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/08

Have you noticed how more and more stories are popping up regarding communities and school districts trying to navigate the issue of transgender athletes? Recently, one of the biggest stories has centered on a transgender female swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania who has been dominating meets and setting records since leaving the men’s team and swimming for the women’s team. Here’s a statement from the American College of Pediatricians on these tender and difficult issues: “Due to a

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Positive News on Kids and Drug Use

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/07

One good bid of news coming out of the pandemic is that the percentage of adolescents reporting drug use decreased significantly in 2021. This news comes from the long-running annual Monitoring the Future Survey. The 2021 survey reports significant decreases in the adolescent use of alcohol, marijuana, and vaped nicotine. The study also found that in regards to mental health, students across all groups from eighth to twelfth grade report moderate increases in feelings of boredom, anxiety,

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The Benefits of Mission Projects

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/04

Even though we’re currently in the middle of the winter months, it’s not too early to start thinking about the summer. Perhaps you’re already looking ahead and planning a summer vacation during the months when your kids are out of school. Let me encourage you to also start thinking about and planning a summer activity that will be of great benefit to your kids. One of the marks of this emerging generation of teenagers is a willingness and desire to help others and to get involved in a variety of

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Loneliness Epidemic

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/03

I recently did a Google search for popular songs about Loneliness. Apparantly loneliness is nothing new. You might remember Roy Orbison’s “Only the Lonely”, Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again, Naturally,” and Al Green’s “Tired Of Being Alone.” One website features a list of one-hundred and twelve new songs about loneliness. New research from the Barna Institute tells us that three out of ten Americans report feeling lonely at least once each day. Our kids are certainly not immune to loneliness

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Raising Kids for Holy Worldliness

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/02

What does it mean to raise our children well? Many of us assume that the best approach is to shield and protect our kids from a culture that has more than its fair share of negative and dangerous influences. We strive to keep them separated from the world. But is that what we should be doing? Jeram Barrs, a professor of Christian Studies at Covenant Seminary reminds us that if we are faithful to God and His word, that’s actually an approach to avoid. He writes, “Our children need to learn that

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Anorexia and Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/02/01

Anorexia Nervosa means “nervous loss of appetite.” Consumed by the irrational fear of being fat or overweight, the aim of the anorexic is to lose weight. Society’s pressure to be thin and beautiful influences even the thinnest girls to look in the mirror and see themselves as fat. Jess, a twelve-year-old with anorexia says her thighs are too fat. Even though people tell her she’s too skinny, she doesn’t believe them. She weighs one hundred and five pounds and would like to be eighty pounds. She

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Parents as Leaders

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/31

Theologian David Starling has written a book about leadership that offers some challenging insights for parents and youth workers as we lead children and teens into a deep faith in Jesus Christ. The book is titled “UnCorinthian Leadership”. The title reflects how the apostle Paul instructed the Corinthians to adopt a godly approach to leadership as a corrective to their worldly ways of leading. I found these words from Starling helpful: “Good navigation requires more than just correct and accurate

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Pushy Parents

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/28

A growing body of research points to the fact that our kids are living pressure-filled lives. As parents, we can pile on the pressure when we lay unrealistic performance and achievement expectations on our kids. While there’s nothing wrong with taking a healthy interest in our kids’ lives, it’s dangerous to live vicariously through them. When our own insecurities lead us to push them to become all we never were, or to accumulate all that we never had, we force them to become something they are not,

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Instagram and Insecurities

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/27

Recently, we expanded our social media presence here at CPYU by reviving our dormant Instagram account. While this has allowed us to communicate more effectively to a wider audience, it has also afforded us opportunities to see trends in the kinds of photos folks post on the Instagram social media platform. Not surprisingly, Instagram, like all other platforms, is a place where our kids fish for affirmation by posting photos of themselves that shout “Hey look at me!” These photos clearly intend to

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Traumatic News and Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/26

President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed when I was a seven year old boy. Two days later, his alleged assassin was gunned down on live TV. The images and news reports were frightening to me. I still think about them today. Not surprising as I’ve learned about how graphic news stories effect vulnerable young children. New research from Florida International University confirms that excessive media exposure to traumatic events can and oftentimes does harm kids. Researchers analyzed nine to eleven

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The Dangers of Early Social Media Use

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/25

As parents, the passage of time always leaves us with some regrets. I have some of those should of and would of realities regarding things I would change if I could go back and do it all over again. For parents raising kids in today’s smartphone and social media saturated world, we don’t want to make mistakes now that might lead to parental regrets later in life. New research published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, found that using Instagram or snapchat prior to age eleven is related

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Parenting for Holiness not Happiness

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/24

A recent headline in the New York Times Magazine caught my attention. It reads, “Dr. Becky Doesn’t Think the Goal of Parenting Is to Make Your Kid Happy.” The article features an interview with clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy. The highly popular parenting advisor has built a following as she gives advice in our day and age of helicopter parenting, along with raising kids in the social media fueled world of competitive parenting. I would agree that our parenting insecurities fuel a style of

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Peer Pressure 5

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/21

All this week we’ve been looking at strategies parents can enlist to help their kids deal with negative peer pressure in God-honoring ways. Today I want to encourage you to not be afraid to draw the line and say “no.” Many parents are just plain scared of their kids. The fact that they’re afraid to exercise their God-given authority over their children allows their children to intimidate them even further. I also know parents who stand up and say no when they have to. Sure, their kids gripe and

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Peer Pressure 4

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/20

This week we’re looking at strategies parents can enlist to help their kids deal with negative peer pressure in God-honoring ways. Our kids need to learn that doing what is right is not always the easy choice. When Jesus called his disciples to come and follow me, he was inviting them into a life that would be difficult. In the same breath, he told them, “If anyone would come after me he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” On the surface, Jesus seems to be calling us to a very

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Peer Pressure 3

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/19

This week we’re looking at strategies parents can enlist to help their kids deal with negative peer pressure in God-honoring ways. Today, I want to encourage you to pray for your kids. While it’s a fact that all kids will face negative peer pressure, we cannot forget our source of hope and strength. God invites us to seek his help in the midst of our helplessness by praying regularly for ourselves and our kids. Ask God to give you wisdom and courage as you lead your kids. Pray that he’ll give you

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Peer Pressure 2

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/01/18

This week we’re looking at strategies parents can enlist to help their kids deal with negative peer pressure in God-honoring ways. You need to realize that negative peer pressure is spiritual battle all of us fight constantly. It’s a fact of life in a sinful and fallen world. We may know what is right, but we still find ourselves giving in. Even the apostle Paul admitted his personal struggle with these same sinful inclinations. He writes, “My own behavior baffles me. For I find myself not doing

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