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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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Healthy Stress

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/16

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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The Meaning of Pride

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/15

Today, I want to share some words from Rick Reed in his Salvo Magazine article on the word Pride. Reed writes, “Until 1970, the former understanding of pride as one of the seven deadly sins was regarded as a foundational moral truth. With the advent of gay pride, the word assumed a positive connotation. The semantic shift facilitated a cultural shift from moral authority to individual preference. What right reason calls sin, individual preference now celebrates with ostentation and vainglorious

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Teaching Truth

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/14

It is a bad thing when we get swept up in the current of what the Apostle Paul calls “the course of this world”, leaving our minds and the ability to discern between truth and lies at the door. Rather than seeking to evaluate everything under the microscope of Biblical truth, we simply choose to believe and embrace the “truth” we like in the moment, and jettison that which we choose not to believe. It was over 25 years ago that social critic Gene Veith wrote these words that so accurately foresaw

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Realistic Parenting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/11

Why is it that so many of us feel like failures when we or our children make a mistake? My guess is that we are disappointed because we expect ourselves and our kids to be perfect – a very unrealistic expectation. But our gnawing sense of imperfection should not keep us from being good parents. Realistic parents pave the way for family closeness and build their children up by parenting with grace. They aren’t paralyzed by feelings of fear and inadequacy when they make mistakes. They know that God

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When to Talk to Kids About Sex and Gender

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/10

Parents, what sexual script are your kids following as they learn how to live out matters of sex and gender? You see, whoever speaks first to a child on these matters sets the bar for truth. When we teach God’s good order and design for sex and gender, our kids will be better equipped to discern the errors of the cultural narrative. Not surprisingly, many of our kids are learning about sex and gender through their smartphone screens. An new study from the University of Georgia questioned students

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The Danger of Seeking YouTube Celebrity

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/09

Elle Mills is a twenty-four year old who became a YouTube celebrity when she was only twelve-years-old. Over time, she had one-point-seven-million subscribers, one-point-eight-million total followers, and one-hundred-and-fifty-five million views. But after twelve years of being validated through the addicting high of gaining the numbers, she shut it all down because of the hard-hitting reality of the lows. In a recent New York Times op-ed piece, Mills sends out a warning to parents and young youtube

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Exposing Culture's Lies

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/08

The Bible tells us about the way things in our world should be. As Christian parents raising teens trying to find their way through a world that’s broken and terribly mixed-up, we are given a responsibility to help them wade through the muck that is, by leading them into an understanding of the way things should be. In Old Testament times, God raised up prophets who were called to do just that. In today’s world, God has given our kids parents who should be doing that job. But how are we to speak

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The Primacy of God's Word in Parenting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/07

I love digging deep into church history to uncover parenting advice that has not only stood the test of time, but which might be even more necessary and true than it was when it was first given. I recently ran across a quote from John Chrysostom, an early church father who lived from 347 until 407. Listen carefully to these words from Chrysostom: “As he who but partially pares away the image on a royal coin renders the whole spurious, so he who swerves ever so little from the pure faith, soon

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School Avoidance

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/04

I recently read about a group that is working to address a growing issue facing families and schools. The organization is called the School Avoidance Alliance and it exists to address the issue of school avoidance, which is when a child refuses to attend school or has difficulty remaining in school the entire day. The alliance tells us that child motivated refusal to attend school or remain in class is not uncommon. In fact, school avoidance affects anywhere from five to twenty-eight percent of

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The Danger of the Divided Self

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/03

The late Dr. Paul Tournier, known by many as the twentieth century’s most famous Christian physician, wrote a book back in 1954 titled “The Meaning Of Persons” that offers some very helpful insights for today’s world as we try to figure out how to best navigate social media in healthy ways. Tournier said that we all have to recognize the disparity that exists between who we know ourselves to be on the inside, along with how we decide to present ourselves to other people. He calls this disparity the

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Situationships

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/02

Recently, there’s been a lot of conversation centered around the CDC’s latest edition of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The conversations are centered focused on of the findings related to teenagers and sexual behavior. The long-standing biannual survey continues to ask teens, “Have you ever had sexual intercourse?” The reality is that fewer teens are having sexual intercourse. But that does not mean that fewer teens are engaging in sexual activity. In fact, the kids themselves find the question to

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The Latest on Kids and Self Harm

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/08/01

Over the years you’ve heard me from time to time mention self-harm and its prevalence among a growing number of children and teens. The kinds of self-harm we are talking about here includes things like cutting or burning of one’s self, banging one’s head against a wall, pulling out their hair, or even attempting suicide as a way to cope with emotional pain and difficulty. Researchers have found that boys ages ten to thirteen who have ADHD, bipolar disorder, or autism are at the highest risk. For our

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ChatGPT as Counselor

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/07/31

If you’re familiar with the growing world of Artificial intelligence, or AI, you have probably hear about chatGPT. This chatbot allows users to ask questions, and then get answers in a matter of seconds. Or course, this can helpful when you are looking to do things like find a particular product, plan a trip, learn how to fix and appliance, and find answers to trivia questions. But mental health professionals are sounding the alarm that many kids who are struggling with anxiety, depression, and

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How Pornography Finds Our Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/07/28

Our friends at protect young minds dot org are advising parents about five sneaky locations where pornography finds kids. Parents, be aware of these five locations. First, kids are accessing pornography through the wifi at their grandparents homes. The reason? Grandparents are less prone to install controls on their devices. Second, when kids are out from under your roof and at a sleepover, there are risks related to a lack of supervision. Many recommend that sleepovers are never a good idea. Third,

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ChatGPT and Education

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/07/27

In a recent blog post for Salvo magazine, Robin Phillips asserts that education is in crisis, and one of the causes seems to be ChatGPT. He says that the problem is quite simple: our kids and our educators are increasingly wondering why we should to write well when bots can just do it for you. Phillips believes that just as the typewriter removed the perceived need for good handwriting, and just as the calculator disincentivized people to compute, and just as spell check has deterred students from

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Pushing Back on Materialism

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/07/26

When I was kid, whenever I would lament not having what the neighbor kids had my dad would address my envy by repeating the old cliché about the dangers of trying to keep up with the Jones’s. In a recent article in Atlantic magazine, researcher Dr. Jean Twenge tells us how in today’s world, it’s not so much the neighbors we envy, but everyone and everything we see on social media. She writes, “Now the rich or at least those who appear to be rich fill our feeds and our screens, providing a skewed

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Counter-Culture Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/07/25

You be you is a current cultural mantra which encourages our kids to embrace, pursue, and become their authentic selves. Our kids are learning that to become their authentic selves, they are to follow their feelings and desires. In her recent book, Live Your Truth And Other Lies, Alisa Childers compares the cultural messages on finding one’s authentic self, with the Bible’s counter-cultural and life-giving guidance on God’s will for who we are to be. While the culture tells us to put yourself first,

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The Latest on Kids and Concussions

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/07/24

Today, I want to pass on an update about the newest developments regarding concussions and our kids. A concussion is considered a mild traumatic brain injury. It results from a jolt or blow to the head. For our children and teens, one of the most common causes of concussion is involvement in youth contact sports. Football, soccer, and lacrosse are some of the sports where concussions are common. The latest research from the University of Cambridge says that for just about half of young concussion

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Showing Grace on Social Media

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/07/21

All this week we’ve been looking at Paul Tripp’s new book, Reactivity: How The Gospel Transforms our Actions and Reactions, and what it means to respect the dignity of others, especially as we and our children learn how to best glorify God on social media. Tripp asks, what does it mean to treat people with dignity? Tripp reminds us that when we find ourselves in disagreements with others, we must see them as human beings. This means that when we are tempted to see or treat them as less, we must

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Showing Humility on Social Media

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/07/20

All this week we are looking at Paul Tripp’s new book, Reactivity: How The Gospel Transforms our Actions and Reactions, and what it means to respect the dignity of others, remembering that all human beings are divine image bearers, especially as we and our children learn how to best glorify God on social media. Tripp asks, what does it mean to treat people with dignity? In world where we tend to attack others over our differences, Paul Tripp tells us that we need to resolve to respond to differences

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