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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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Sports Parenting 4

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/27

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Sports Parenting 3

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/26

All this week we’re looking at how to push back on a youth sports culture that tends to value the wrong things, by living out our faith as sports parents. There’s much that we can learn from hockey hall of famer Mark Howe. Mark understood when his talented 17-year-old son Travis asked to quit playing ice hockey. The win-at-all costs mind set of his coaches and teammates’ parents had finally gotten to be too much for Travis. Mark says that in youth sports today “the child’s welfare is becoming less

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Sports Parenting 2

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/25

All this week we’re looking at how to push back on a youth sports culture that tends to value the wrong things, by living out our faith as sports parents. Have you ever taken the time to stand back and observe the behavior of the parents who stand on the sidelines screaming and yelling at refs, coaches, and even their own kids? As we parent our kids through organized sports, it’s important that we continually ask ourselves this question: “Who’s out on the field?” Unfortunately, some parents see

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Sports Parenting 1

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/24

Vincent Fortanasce is a psychiatrist, coach and member of the Little League Hall of Fame. In his book, Life Lessons from Little League , he relates how he asked parents at the initial team meeting about what they first ask their children after a game, if they had not been able to attend. The most common question was “Did you win today?” The second most frequent question was “How did you do?” Fortanasce writes, “What was my point? Simply that I wanted my team parents to re-focus away from ‘I want my

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Saying Too Much on Social Media

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/21

Back when we first started our Digital Kids Initiative here at CPYU, I would often tell parents that they need to let their kids know that whatever they post on social media is not only available for the entire world to see, but it will remain there forever. I was warning them about the impact of their digital footprint. As time went on, kids didn’t care what others saw, and they were posting all their innermost secrets so that others could see them. There are many reasons why this is so. But the

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Social Media and Cannabis Use

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/20

I recently ran across a social media meme that pictures some cannabis, along with this message: negative effects of smoking weed include, less weed. It’s one of many weed-friendly social media posts that researchers say are influencing teenagers and their attitudes on cannabis. In a new survey from Washington State University, researchers found that teens are seeing a lot of positive cannabis messages on social media. And, those messages do influence attitudes on cannabis use. Author of the study,

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Why Kids Aren't Getting a Driver's License

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/19

Many members of Generation Z are either delaying getting their driver’s license, or not getting a driver’s license at all. Generation Z includes all those born between 1997 and 2012. When most of us think back to our own teenage years, we couldn’t wait to get our driver’s license, as it represented a move from dependence to independence, and it served as a marker that we were moving closer to adulthood. But things have changed. In 1997, forty-three percent of sixteen-year-olds and sixty-two percent

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Kids and Flip Phones

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/18

In my home office I’ve got one desk drawer that’s become a tangled mess of charging wires and obsolete devices that are doing nothing more than collecting dust. I recently went through the drawer and started pulling out a collection of old cell phones that reveal a bit of my own tech history. Among the varied old phones were a couple of flip-phones, which I now believe I might have to hold on to as they could be rising in value. It seems that a growing number of kids are realizing just how addictive

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ChatGPT, Kids, and School

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/17

Late last year, the American artificial intelligence research laboratory know as Open AI launched the ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot. Now if your head is already spinning over that last sentence, you’re not alone. Those of you who share my technical deficiencies regarding the cascading onslaught of new digital technologies are, like me, left scratching your head over what these things are, how they function, and how they will change our lives. Let me start with this: the GPT in ChatGPT

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Should We Pray for Our Kids to Suffer?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/14

In their best-selling book The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff tell us that one of the cultural lies we and our kids have been led to believe is this: “What doesn’t kill you will make you weaker.” Consequently, our goal in life is to do whatever we can to avoid pain, believing that it will destroy us. Conversely, we believe we should pursue pleasure and comfort at any cost, believing that pleasure is redemptive. Anyone who has endured difficulty and learned great

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Kids Who Regret What Their Parents Share Online

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/13

A recent article in Teen Vogue’s online magazine is titled “influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content.” As the title indicates, the article talks about the parents who leveraged social media by putting everything about their children’s lives online for the world to see, not just photos of childhood achievements, but all the intimate details of their lives. This includes videos of them crying, to footage of them being disciplined. All of these have been shared like a

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The Teen Gas App

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/12

Launched back in August of last year, the social media app known as Gas quickly became popular among teens. The app’s name Gas comes from the slang term “gassing someone up”, which is a phrase teens use to describe the act of complimenting someone. The app, which is oriented towards high schoolers, allows users to participate in anonymous polls where they can choose pre-written complimentary statements about peers from their own high school. For example, someone might post the question Who do you

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TikTok's Teenage Look Filter

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/11

Recently, TikTok added a new video filter that has drawn in those who are older to using the social media video platform. The filter is called Teenage Look. Users focus the camera on their face and see a split screen, with the lower picture showing them as they look now, while the upper picture smooths out their wrinkles, launching them into a trip down memory lane as they supposedly find themselves facing their high school aged self. Truth be told, I gave it a look which simply resulted in a quick

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A Strategy to Push Back on Teen Anxiety

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/10

With anxiety off the charts as a growing epidemic among children and teens, I want to offer a strategy you can employ to prevent anxiety in the kids you know and love. Perhaps the most effective strategy is to teach them to preach the Gospel to themselves. Teach them to speak to their hearts, telling their hearts to follow the Gospel rather than allowing their hearts to speak to them. You see, our feelings are not trustworthy. They can lead us astray. They are especially dangerous during times of

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A Good Friday Prayer for our Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/07

On this Good Friday, I want to share with you what I call a parent’s version of the Book of Common Prayer’s Good Friday prayer. Gracious God, the comfort of all who sorrow, the strength of all who suffer: Let the cry of those of our children in misery and need come to you, that they may find your mercy present with them in all their afflictions; and give us, we pray, the strength to serve our children for the sake of him who suffered for us, your Son Jesus, Christ our Lord. Let us pray for our

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Teaching Truth

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/06

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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Easter Literacy

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/05

It’s been over a decade since The Barna Research Group released a list of notable trends in the church, including one alarming trend that we must think about this week. Overall, the Barna Group reported that the Christian Church was becoming less theologically literate. The basic, universally-known truths about the Christian faith are now unknown and mysterious to a large and growing share of Americans, especially young adults. Sadly, that trend continues today. For example, only a minority of

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Teaching Easter

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/04

As we get ready to celebrate power of the Cross and the Resurrection of Jesus this weekend, I want to ask you if you’ve taken any time to talk with your kids about the earth-shattering significance of what it is that we will be celebrating. The fallout from our culture’s growing reality of biblical illiteracy hit me hard when a couple of years ago on the day after Easter my daughter-in-law, an athletic trainer at a large suburban high school, shared with me a conversation she witnessed between a

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The Borg Challenge

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/04/03

Once again, I want to warn you about a dangerous party trend that’s gone viral and being promoted on TikTok. Known as the Borg challenge or drinking trend, the online videos quickly garnered over eighty-two million views. The word Borg stands for blackout rage gallon, which refers to an alcoholic drink that is made by filling a gallon size jug with a combination of water, alcohol, electrolytes, and caffeinated energy drinks. Borgs typically include up to a fifth of alcohol, which is equal to about

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Leading Kids to Service and Sacrifice

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/31

I recently read about Gary Haugen’s experience as a Christian called to respond to the horrible genocide in Rawanda. Haugen says, “When you are standing in a mass grave in Rawanda, the question that came to my mind was not the question that was coming to everyone else’s mind. I’ve had people ask me, where was God in the midst of all this? But I could sense, at least from Scripture and what I knew of my heavenly father, that I knew where God was: He was right in the midst of all that incredible

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