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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 Pressure

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/30

We live in a sports-obsessed culture. In God’s good design, sports are a good thing as long as they don’t become an ultimate thing, or idol. One measure of how much we worship sport is the growing pressure many kids feel from their parents to not only participate, but to excel, and this is happening at younger and younger ages. It’s no wonder many of our kids burnout and then dropout from youth sports. Researchers have found that many adolescents feel that their parents interfere in their sports

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Kids and Type 2 Diabetes

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/29

Over the course of the last couple of years, our family has been on a crash course to learn about diabetes in children. The reason for this is that one of our grandchildren was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of six. In children, type 1 diabetes is believed to be caused by an autoimmune reaction. Unlike type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes typically comes on later in life, and being overweight and inactive are two of the most common causes. In other words, type 2 diabetes can often be

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Social Media Dangers

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/28

Neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina have been working to find an answer to a question many of us have about the relationship between our kids and their use of social media. That question is this: what is social media doing to young brains. Using brain scan technology, researchers found that children who habitually checked their social media feeds at around age twelve showed a distinct trajectory of increased sensitivity to social rewards from peers over time. Kids who spent less time

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What Social Media Reveals of our Hearts

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/27

I recently read a thought-provoking quote from the eighteenth century writer Samuel Johnson. Johnson wrote, “Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk, your mind is on parade.” Immediately after reading these words I thought about what Jesus said in Matthew twelve when he was talking about how a tree is known by its fruit. Jesus said, “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” He goes on to say that good will come out of a heart that is good, and that evil comes out of a heart

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Anti-Materialism Parenting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/24

Perhaps you’ve seen the bumper sticker that reads, “He who dies with the most toys wins.” That little saying captures the philosophy of life known as materialism. Sadly, it’s a philosophy of life embraced by most people in our American culture. It’s also the way of life embraced by our children and teens as they follow our example, believing the lie that each new purchase and acquisition will somehow bring meaning, purpose, and satisfaction in life. Webster’s dictionary defines materialism as the

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The Benefits of Family Mealtime

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/23

God has made us for relationships, and the primary human relationships for which we’ve been made are those with our family. It’s no secret that one of the primary trends undermining the health of our families has been the loss of a family meal time. Researchers recently listed seven benefits of eating together as a family. First, everyone has better eating habits. One reason is that eating together keeps us from a fast food diet. Second, it helps the mental health of our kids, lowering their risk of

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What Looks Good May Be Bad

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/22

I was only six or seven years old when I spotted a wrapped chocolate bar sitting on the kitchen counter. It was holiday time and my mom was getting ready to bake something but had left the room. The temptation was too great, and I cracked open the candy and broke off a square. Imagine my disappointment when my tastebuds sensed the unexpected bitter taste of baking chocolate. I thought about that experience recently when I read about a study in the journal pediatrics which reports on the growing case

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Are You Raising Silver Spoon Kids?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/21

One of the most alarming trends in today’s youth culture is a growing sense of entitlement. It’s especially prevalent among those children and teens living on the receiving end of a silver spoon. On the other end are parents who feed their kids an endless parade of opportunities, activities, and things - all without ever having to work for any of it. These kids wind up believing that they will never have to work for anything, because, after all, they deserve it. A Harris Interactive Poll found that

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TikTok Dangers

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/20

Recently, there’s been a lot of debate regarding whether or not the social media app TikTok is appropriate for teenagers. The video sharing app has come under lots of criticism regarding the spread of inappropriate content, as well as its addictive nature. The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate has found that harmful TikTok content related to suicide and eating disorders can find users within minutes of setting up an account. Researchers found that it can take under three minutes for the

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Gender Confusion 5

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/17

Our friend, Nicholas Black, recently wrote an article for the HarvestUSA ministry that offers wise counsel on what to say when a child or friend expresses gender confusion. This week, I’ve been unpacking Nicholas Black’s five broad principles a parent, pastor, and church can pursue. The fifth and final principle is this: we want to call our friend to bring God into the heart of the situation. Bringing God into the heart of the gender situation is absolutely necessary because this is a spiritual

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Gender Confusion 4

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/16

Our friend, Nicholas Black, recently wrote an article for the HarvestUSA ministry that offers wise counsel on what to say when a child or friend expresses gender confusion. This week, I’m unpacking Nicholas Black’s five broad principles a parent, pastor, and church can pursue. The fourth principle is this: we need to teach a biblical view of perservence in the midst of suffering. We need to acknowledge that some life situations are chronic, persistent, and will not be completely resolved in this

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Gender Confusion 3

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/15

Our friend, Nicholas Black, recently wrote an article for the HarvestUSA ministry that offers wise counsel on what to say when a child or friend expresses gender confusion. This week, I’m unpacking Nicholas Black’s five broad principles a parent, pastor, and church can pursue. The third principle is this: help your young friend to grasp that our lives, which includes our bodies, first and foremost belong to God. We need to patiently teach that believers in Christ have a deeper foundation for their

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Gender Confusion 2

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/14

Our friend, Nicholas Black, recently wrote an article for the HarvestUSA ministry that offers wise counsel on what to say when a child or friend expresses gender confusion. This week, I’m unpacking Nicholas Black’s five broad principles a parent, pastor, and church can pursue. The second principle is this: Carefully teach and seek mutual involvement. We need to communicate to our loved one that deep, persistent gender struggles grow stronger when we contend with them in isolation. As we walk with

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Gender Confusion 1

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/13

Our friend, Nicholas Black, recently wrote an article for the HarvestUSA ministry that offers wise counsel on what to say when a child or friend expresses gender confusion. Nicholas says that of course, we want to be sure to talk about the bible’s teaching on gender, that God created humanity as male and female. However, we must also recognize that we are dealing with someone living in our broken and confused Genesis 3 world. This week, I want to unpack Nicholas Black’s five broad principles a

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Realistic Parenting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/10

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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The Latest on Kids and Pornography

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/09

Our friends at Common Sense Media have released their latest report on teenagers and pornography. Since pornography is a horribly fallen expression and distortion of God’s good gift of sexuality, we want to encourage parents to listen to what the survey has found, and then take ongoing steps to teach your kids about God’s good gift of sexuality. Nearly three in every four teens have been exposed to pornography, either accidentally or on purpose. Fifty two percent of our boys and thirty-six percent

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Sports as Idol

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/08

I recently read a fascinating and helpful perspective on the place sports should and should not hold in our lives written by Robert Cunningham for ByFaith magazine. Cunningham says that all of us have been made with religious impulses and the desire to worship something. For the Christian we know these impulses have been put there by our creator and that they can only be satisfied when we worship him. But sports is often looked to as a substitute god, or idol. Cunningham says that there are three

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Building Strength and Resilience in Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/07

A recent news story about concrete serves as a metaphor for nurturing our children and teens into long-term spiritual growth and vitality. Scientists have long-wondered why the ancient roman pantheon and other roman buildings constructed of concrete have remained intact for almost two-thousand years. Researchers have unlocked the mystery by comparing the composition of the long-lasting roman concrete, to our modern concrete, which tends to break down rather quickly. It seems that the Romans worked

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Smartphones and Sextortion

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/06

The dictionary defines sextortion as the practice of extorting money or sexual favors from someone by threatening to reveal evidence of their sexual activity. In today’s online world, sextortion has become a serious crime that occurs when someone threatens to distribute your private and sensitive material if you don’t provide them with images of a sexual nature, or sexual favors. Recently, the FBI has sounded the alarm about what has been called an explosive increase in teenage boys being targeted

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How to L-O-V-E Hurting Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/03

In his book “Help my Kids are Hurting,” my friend Marv Penner offers an acronym to help us think through the skills needed to help wounded kids. The letter L stands for listening – the most fundamental skill needed by anyone working with hurting kids. We must close our mouths and listen intently as they tell their story. O refers to what we offer students. They’ve opened up with us because they believe we have something they need. We must offer hope and the willingness to go deeper with them. V

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