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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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Social Media and Mental Health

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/02

Over the course of the last several years, those who lament the rapid decline in mental health among children and teens have been working to figure out if there’s any connection between the decline, and the pervasiveness of smartphones and social media in the world of children and teens. More and more research is pointing to a connection. In addition, anecdotal evidence put forth from educators makes the connection clear, so clear in fact, that back in January, the Seattle public school district

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What Makes Us Great?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/03/01

As a Christian parent, what is your greatest desire for your children? I’m afraid that all-too-often, we allow our desires for our children to be shaped by the ideals of the kingdom of this world, rather than by the ideals of the kingdom of heaven. In Matthew 20, we read about the request made to Jesus by a mother named Salome, about her sons, the disciples of Jesus named James and John. She wanted Jesus to grant to them power and authority, including sitting at the right and left hand of Jesus in

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The Primacy of God's Word in Parenting

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/28

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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Boys and Anorexia

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/27

Anorexia Nervosa is a medical term which means “nervous loss of appetite.” In recent years, anorexia has been on the rise, fueled in many ways by society’s pressure to be thin and to be perfect, an ever present reality thanks to both social media and marketing. While anorexia is more prevalent in our girls, a growing number of males are struggling with it as a result of body image concerns. It’s usually reported that ten percent of anorexics are males. A recent study in Australia found that about

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Helping Kids Handle Peer Pressure

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/24

As Christian parents, what can we do to help our teens weather the inevitable storm of negative peer pressure in a way that brings honor and glory to their heavenly father? First, realize that negative peer pressure is a spiritual battle that all of us fight constantly. Second, pray for your kids as they face the pressure on a daily basis. Third, examine yourself to see how your example serves them as a model of how to handle negative peer pressure. Fourth, live a lifestyle of following Christ

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Parents are Missionaries

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/23

Humorist Will Rogers once said, “I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.” Rogers was saying that the world he had grown up in, no longer existed. Like a snowball accelerating and growing on a trip down a steep snow-covered hill, today’s youth culture is changing at breakneck speed. What does that mean for those of us who not only grew up in a different world, but who are now struggling to lead young people into a relationship with Jesus Christ? It

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The Latest on Kids and Drugs

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/22

For the last forty-eight years, researchers at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan have been monitoring drug trends among teenagers, and reporting their findings annually in the Monitoring the Future Survey. The most recent survey indicates that in 2022, levels of adolescent cannabis use and nicotine vaping held steady. Among our high school seniors, thirty one percent admitted to cannabis use in the prior twelve months. Twenty seven percent of high school seniors

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Would You Give Up Social Media?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/21

If you’ve ever had a family game night, you are most likely familiar with the game called would you rather? You might have used questions like would you rather team up with wonder woman or captain marvel, or would you rather be forced to sing along or dance along to every single song you hear? It’s a fun game where you can learn much about other family members. I recently saw a youtube video where a teen asked his peers, would you rather give up social media or eat the same meal for the rest of your

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A Car Theft Social Media Challenge

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/20

From time to time I will inform you of the latest social media challenge going viral among teens. Some of these can be fun. But many of these challenges are dangerous or even deadly. One of the latest social media challenges police departments across the country are encountering is one that encourages young TikTok viewers to steal two particular brands of cars – Kia and Hyundai – and then take off with them for a reckless joyride that is then documented through video and posted on social media. The

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Children as Gifts

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/17

Parents, we can’t buy into the widespread cultural cynicism regarding children and teenagers as difficulties or burdens. The psalmist writes, “Don’t you see that kids are God’s best gift? The fruit of the womb his generous legacy? Like a warrior’s fistful of arrows are the kids of a vigorous youth. Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of kids.” Children are not liabilities; they’re rewards from God, given to us as a sign of God’s favor. God values them highly and so must we

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Earbuds and Hearing Loss

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/16

I’ve been lover of music since I was in elementary school and friends introduced me to the Beatles. By the time I got to high school in the 1970s one of my favorite music listening devices was my headphones. I could plug them into the family stereo system and crank up the music, leaving me to listen without complaints from my parents. Today, I love using my earbuds to listen to all kinds of music. But what I now wish I had known way back then was the damage that headphones and concerts can do to

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Your Teen's Hunger for God

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/15

Everyone who has ever walked the face of the earth has been made by God for a relationship with God. Because our rebellion and sin has severed that relationship, there remains a deep yearning inside each human being to have that relationship restored. Whether our teenagers know what to call it or not, Blaise Pascal described this universal hole in the soul as a god-shaped vacume. Alister McGrath describes Pascal’s model as “a God-shaped emptiness within us, which only God can fill. We may try to

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Driving to God's Glory

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/14

In our North American culture, one of the only rites of passage we have from childhood to adulthood is the day that teenager passes their driver’s test and gets their driver’s license. As parents, we take the time to ensure that our kids have learned how to drive safely and conduct themselves responsibly before we allow them to take their driver’s test, and we share numerous safe driving reminders every time they head out alone on the road as newly licensed drivers. What we have to remember is that

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Cannabis Use and the Brain

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/13

With the use of cannabis on the rise and increasingly accepted in our culture, it’s important that we reckon with the fact that its use does have an effect on one’s cognitive and psychological processing. A variety of recent studies found that in relation to cognitive processes, cannabis users showed significantly lower performance on memory tests than those who are non-users or occasional users. These results were consistent, even when the subject being tested was clean on the day of testing

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Safeguarding Our Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/10

Our friend, counselor Julie Lowe, has written a brand new book for parents that addresses many of the safety issues our kids and families face in today’s world. The book is called Safe Guards: Shielding our Homes and Equipping Our Kids. The book offers up a very realistic picture of the dangers our kids face in today’s world, along with biblically faithful responses we can enlist. Julie shares three guiding principles that are helpful for us all. First, we live in a broken and fallen world. There is

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Too Much Classroom Screentime?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/09

Over the course of the last few years, we’ve had a host of parents and educators ask our opinion on the use of screens in the classroom. In every case, we advise people to keep their eyes on the research so that technology can be utilized as something that enhances rather than detracts from the educational experience. In a recent column in National Review, Anthony Kinnett, the executive director of Choice Media, offers this helpful summary: Screen addiction, blue-light exhaustion, and other medical

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We're All Sinners

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/08

As a youth culture analyst there’s one question I get asked more often than any other: “What’s the greatest problem facing teenagers today?” The one-word answer is very simple: sin. It’s the same greatest problem facing people of all ages in all times and in all places. It’s the same greatest problem I face in my own life. We live in a Genesis 3:6 world. Everything God declared as “good” came undone and is in desperate need of redemption. . . . including ourselves. Each of us has exchanged “the

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When to Talk to Kids About Sex and Gender

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/07

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 Super Bowl and Ads

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/06

With the Super Bowl happening this week there’s excitement building not only about the game, but about all the new commercials that will air. This year’s cost to marketers? Seven million dollars for a thirty-second spot. As always, we suggest that you take the opportunity to make your Super Bowl watching experience a teachable moment for your kids. Use it as an opportunity to teach them how to apply their faith to the glut of marketing messages they face each day. We suggest that you filter every ad

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Teaching Kids to Ignore the Rules

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/02/03

One of the most quoted bible verses about parenting is found in Proverbs 22:6. It says, “train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Our greatest responsibility as Christian parents is to lead our children into a lifetime of living under the Lordship of their Savior, Jesus Christ. We do this by teaching through our words and our example. Recent research from the Institute for Family Studies raises concerns about the kind of example many parents are

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