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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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High School Athletes and NIL Deals

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/22

I recently received this text message from a high school coach I know: “Would you please make people aware of high school athletes and the NIL deals? Something has to be done. It’s getting out of hand.” In case you’re unfamiliar to what this coach is referring to, Nil is an acronym that stands for name, image, and likeness. You see, just like pro athletes, high school athletes are now signing sponsorship and endorsement deals with major companies like Nike and others, to use their name, image, and

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Online Peer Pressure

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/21

Earlier this year, Mitch Prinstein, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the effects that social media and technology are having on our kids. His particular focus was on the decline in mental health. One of the made points made by Prinstein during his testimony is one that I’d like to pass on to you today. Prinstein wants us all to know that for our kids, getting “likes” on social media can make bad behavior look good. He

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What is Calamitalysis?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/20

I recently read about a contest where teenagers were encouraged to invent a new word. Many of the respondents created words that reflect the reality of teenage life in today’s rapidly changing world. One of the words that caught my eye was this: calamitalysis. That’s spelled c-a-l-a-m-i-t-a-l-y-s-i-s. The word’s inventor defines calamitalysis as a debilitating stress or anxiety, derived from hopelessness about the terrifying problems of the world. With mental health issues like stress and anxiety on

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Truth, Lies, and our Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/19

In her book, Live Your Truth and Other Lies, Alisa Childers says that there are endless ways that truth can be spun, manipulated, covered up, and even used to promote deception. Often, the lie is christened with religious-sounding language that makes it seem to feel right. Over my own years in ministry, I’ve come to understand that a half-truth is actually more dangerous than a complete lie. As Christians, we actually do a better job of spotting complete lies. But lacking well-honed skills of

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The Gift of a Grace-Filled Dad

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/16

All this week we’ve been looking at the powerful role Dad’s play in their teen’s lives. Our kids will mess up. For some, their poor decisions will result in consequences that last a long time. Others may enter into a rebellious period that leaves you hoping and praying that like the prodigal son, they’ll return home. It’s at these times when we need to realize that loving our kids, means being committed to our kids. Teens living in today’s culture face incredible pressures. Because they are sinful

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The Gift of a Good Example Dad

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/15

This week we’re discussing what teens need in a dad. When my son Josh was still in his preschool years, he opened my eyes to the power of my example. While riding together in the car I had to swerve and skid to avoid an accident. As we screeched to a halt and the other car went whizzing past us, Josh looked out his window in the direction of the other driver. While raising and shaking his fist, he yelled, “You Idiot!” It didn’t take long to realize where my mild-mannered little boy had learned such

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The Gift of a Listening Dad

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/14

This week we’re focusing on Father’s Day. Sadly, the experience of many teens indicates their fathers fail to listen. Research shows that mothers are far more likely than fathers to discuss problems and have close personal talks with their teenage children. As a result, both teenage boys and girls say they feel freer to go to their mothers, rather than their fathers, to “talk about anything,” to “talk openly,” “and to “tell her my problems.” When asked to choose the most likely option out of the

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The Gift of a Committed Dad

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/13

This week we’re getting ready to celebrate Father’s Day. Dr. Ken Canfield tells Dads that the first secret to fathering effectiveness is commitment. Commitment involves much more than claiming your child as your own. This commitment requires a conscious choice to be your child’s father, along with resolving to work for your child’s benefit. Fathers who choose not to commit are opening the door for someone or something else to raise their children. In today’s youth culture, there are a variety of

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The Gift of a Loving Dad

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/12

This week we celebrate Father’s Day. This is a great time to look at the valuable role Dad plays in a teenager’s life. Research indicates that tonight, 40% of America’s children and teens will go to bed in a home where their father does not live. Countless millions more will go to bed in a home where their father is physically present, but emotionally or spiritually detached. Father absence is a contributing factor to virtually every social problem and pressure facing our teenagers today. An absent

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The Importance of Physical Activity

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/09

One of the trends we’ve been tracking here at CPYU has been the rise in childhood and adolescent obesity. Because God has created us to have bodies and called us to care for and steward them to his glory, we must be concerned not only about our own health and well-being, but the health and well-being of our kids. One of the factors related to this obesity epidemic is the decreasing amount of physical activity for kids. More and more kids sit around engaging with screens, which has resulted in less

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Barbie and Body Image

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/08

Over the course of the last few months my wife and I have been slowly chipping away at the job of cleaning up and organizing our attic. Now that our kids are grown and out of the house, looking through boxes of their toys, books, and clothing is like a trip down memory lane. One box we found contained several Barbie dolls and accessories that belonged to our girls. I paused as I looked at the Barbie dolls as I had recently read about Nickolay Lamm and her desire to create a doll that has the

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Video Game Addiction

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/07

We’ve come a long way since pong was released way back in 1972 and it became the first commercially successful video game. Since then, video games have gone from being accessible through coin operated machines at the local Pizza Hut, to becoming twenty-four seven obsessions for gamers through at-home-gaming consoles with life-like graphics. Parents, we need to set time limits on how much our kids play, and boundaries on what games they can play. Experts warn that we should also watch out for video

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Death Rates Rising

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/06

A recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association tells us that the mortality rate for children ages one to nineteen increased by almost eleven percent between 2019 and 2020, and an additional eight percent between 2020 and 2021. Most of the upsurge was due to the deaths among older children ages ten to nineteen. The increased rates in this ten to nineteen age group was attributable to increases in suicide, homicide, vehicle accidents, and drug overdoses. Because all of us face the

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The Importance of Family Dinners

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/05

I recently had a youth worker friend lament what’s happening in the lives of her students as the result of some bad habits their families have adopted. She told me that after doing a quick survey of her students, she learned that only about ten percent eat dinner with their families every night. She went on to say that some of the families rarely ate dinner together. She told me that she had discovered that one of her students was using drugs. When she went to that student’s parents to share what

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The Authority Dilemma

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/02

In today’s world, our kids are being taught that true freedom consists of being able to step out from under any kind of external authority, and to live only under the authority of one’s self. They are to rule over themselves, constructing their own identities, beliefs, and behaviors based on how they feel at any given time. This way of living is not an option for our Christian kids. Consider these words of Jesus from John eight: “If you abide in my word you are truly my disciples, and you will know

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Vaping Dangers

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/06/01

Here’s another update on a cultural trend that should come as no surprise. A study of more than twenty-five hundred subjects ages thirteen to twenty four has found that those who vape nicotine only, THC only, or both nicotine and THC are more likely to report anxiety symptoms, symptoms of depression, and suicidal thoughts than those who don’t vape nicotine or THC through electronic smoking devices. In addition, the symptoms of anxiety were more frequently reported among those who only vape THC, the

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The Dangers of Too Much Screen Time

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/05/31

In his new book, The Wolf In Their Pockets, Chris Martin offers up some insight and advice regarding what happens to us when we spend too much time staring into our smartphone screens. Chris writes, In the same way that a soccer goalie would have a difficult time evaluating and blocking penalty kicks if a dozen of them were kicked at him all at once, our ability to discern what is true and what is good is hindered by the waterfalls of content we attempt to drink every time we scroll our favorite

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Sex and Gender in the Beginning

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/05/30

We live in a world where conversations about sex and gender are all around us. According to the spirit of the times, each individual is sovereign over themselves, and therefore able to choose to live according to their feelings, desires, and preferences. But for the Christian, the foundation must be the Word of God. In his book Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher Watkin writes these words we must heed: “Genesis one is the single block on the bottom row of the Bible’s Jenga tower. If this one truth

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Porn Brain

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/05/29

Our kids are growing up in a world where pornography is pervasive. Seeing pornography is not a matter of if, but a matter of when. If they don’t find pornography on their own, it is bound to find them while they are engaging with their smartphones and computers. Because our kids are created by God as sexual beings with desires that have been put there by Him, they are prone to seeking out and actually becoming addicted to pornography, which is a fallen expression of God’s good gift of sexuality

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Parents and the Bible

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/05/26

Parents, do you struggle to figure out how to best guide your children and teens through the difficult realities of life in today’s world? If you do, you are not alone. Our rapidly changing world can leave our heads spinning. Dr. James Montgomery Boice offers up these words of advice and remedy that I have found to be personally helpful: Study the bible daily. We should discipline our lives to include regular periods of Bible study, just as we discipline ourselves to have regular periods for sleep,

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