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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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Opening Your Home to Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/08/08

Life for teenagers is difficult. When their hands hit the doorknob at your house, do they feel like they are stepping out of a difficult world into a place of even greater heartache, brokenness, and difficulty? Or are they able to breathe a sigh of relief as they step over the threshold into the loving, safe, and comforting place they call home? Be sure your home is the latter. And once it is, why not open the doors to your child’s peers, providing them with a safe and welcoming place too? Chances

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What Kids Say about Social Media and Friendships

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/08/07

Late last year, the Pew Research Center conducted a survey of almost fourteen hundred teens, ages thirteen to seventeen, to come to an understanding of our teenagers’ experiences and attitudes around social media and their mental health. One of the most interesting findings is related to how social media affects one’s friendships. Teens say that there are positive effects on friendships, including being more connected to what’s going on in their friends’ lives, finding it to be a place to show their

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Should I Tell My Kids about My Past?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/08/06

“How much should I tell my kids about my life as a teenager?” Ever wonder about that one? You have if you’re conscious about the mistakes you made during your teenage years and you’re dreading the day one of your kids starts asking those probing questions. Answering with age appropriate honesty is the best policy when kids are considering their own actions and wondering about what you did when you were their age. Our kids have asked us some very frank questions over the years. And, we’ve given them

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Navigating the Pressure to Fit In

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/08/05

The hallway of my junior high school seemed less like a passageway from class to class, and more like a gauntlet. Walking that hallway was painful business as my self-conscious self wondered where – if anywhere – I fit in to that mass of same-aged students known as my “peers.” As children move into the early stages of adolescence, peers become increasingly important. Kids feel more secure when they are accepted by a group of friends. Hiding in the confines of a group offers safety to an insecure and

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What Kids Say about Social Media Time

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/08/04

Late last year, the Pew Research Center conducted a survey of almost fourteen hundred teens, ages thirteen to seventeen, to come to an understanding of our teenagers’ experiences and attitudes around social media and their mental health. One of the most interesting findings points to the fact that our kids themselves are starting to see the downside of all this time spent on social media. Back in twenty twenty two, thirty six percent of kids said they spend too much time on social media. A year

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Teaching Kids to Walk with God 5

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/08/01

All this week we’ve been looking at what we need to embrace for ourselves and in turn teach to our kids about what it means to walk with God. The guidance comes from the writings of the seventeenth century Puritan writer, Jeremiah Burroughs. Burroughs tell us that when we walk with God, we will experience his approval and blessing, and we won’t be looking for encouragement from the world. In today’s social media saturated world where everyone wants the likes and positive comments, this is a

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Teaching Kids to Walk with God 4

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/31

All this week we’re looking at what we need to embrace for ourselves and in turn teach to our kids about what it means to walk with God. The guidance comes from the writings of the seventeenth century Puritan writer, Jeremiah Burroughs. Burroughs tell us that if we are walking with God, our lives will be marked by taking on the tasks we face not in our own power, but with the assistance of God. Parents, we can teach our kids to pray this prayer of dependence on God in all things: “Lord, this is the

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Teaching Kids to Walk with God 3

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/30

All this week we’re looking at what we need to embrace for ourselves and in turn teach to our kids about what it means to walk with God. The guidance comes from the writings of the seventeenth century Puritan writer, Jeremiah Burroughs. Burroughs tell us that when we set ourselves to walk with God, we depend on God for protection as He takes care to watch over us in whatever we do. Our kids need to learn that the pathway of discipleship, which is the pathway of self-denial, is one where we will

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Teaching Kids to Walk with God 2

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/29

All this week we’re looking at what we need to embrace for ourselves and in turn teach to our kids about what it means to walk with God. The guidance comes from the writings of the seventeenth century Puritan writer, Jeremiah Burroughs. Burroughs tell us that when we are walking with God, we will depend on God for direction. In today’s world, so many cultural voices are calling out to our kids, inviting them to come and follow. If they assent, they will find themselves on what the Bible calls the

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Teaching Kids to Walk with God 1

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/28

If you are familiar with your Bible characters you know that there are two individuals mentioned in the early chapters of Genesis who, we read, “walked with God.” Both Enoch and Noah are described in this way, indicating that they had a close and intimate relationship with almighty God. What is indicated by this descriptor is that they both lived obediently as they worshipped, prayed, and sought God’s guidance. All of us who are followers of Jesus Christ, young and old alike, need to make walking

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Peer Pressure and Your Kids' Friends

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/25

Because the teenage years are filled with so much change and uncertainty, your kids yearn for stability and normalcy. Their search for a safe place to belong leads them to the haven of friendships with peers. These friendships are important and necessary as our kids begin to move towards the independence of adulthood. This means that they’ll face peer pressure. That pressure can either be positive - influencing them to make good choices - or negative. . . something most of us remember all too well

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How Depressed and Anxious Kids Experience Social Media

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/24

New research from the University of Cambridge offers up some noteworthy information on the relationship between teen social media use and mental health conditions. Researchers found that kids who struggle with anxiety and depression report higher rates of being negatively affected by social media. Those with anxiety and depression have a higher rate of comparing themselves to others on social media, having a lack of self-control over the time they spend on social media, and experiencing changes in

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The Parenting Power of Good Questions

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/23

I’ve become known around my house as the guy who asks too many questions. To be honest, I think I get a little annoying. One thing I’ve learned is that I need to ask good questions. Our tendency is to talk at, rather than listen to our kids. The bad news is that this approach is a communication killer. Asking good questions serves to open the floodgates of communication by encouraging your kids to express themselves. Asking questions lets your kids know you want to hear what they have to say. Good

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What Does Porn Do To Kids?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/22

Online pornography is an ever-present reality in today’s world. I recently asked Google this question: “What percentage of the internet is pornography.” I was told it’s estimated that around twelve percent of the internet is dedicated to pornographic content. In a recent letter to First Things journal, reader Isabel Hogben wrote these compelling words about the power of porn: “Online porn shatters human dignity by reducing an extraordinary, singular personhood to a pixelated consumable, rather than

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The Power of Reckless Words

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/21

As a dad, I’ve learned over and over that I need to choose my words carefully. I’m usually reminded after moments of being very careless with my words. Proverbs 12:18 tells us that “Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” I read that and can only respond with one word. . . . “Guilty!” I’ve thrown reckless words around my relationships with abandon, especially with those who live under my roof. Reckless words are not only harmful to our communication, but to

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Our Kids' Mistakes and Our Shame

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/18

Remember what used to happen to the teenage girl from the Christian family who got pregnant? Maybe you don’t, because you never heard in the first place that the girl was even pregnant. She just disappeared. . . usually halfway across the country to Aunt Martha’s farm. Then, a year or two later, she’d reappear and life would go on as if nothing happened. That’s the way it used to be in the church when a family was in crisis. If other people found out, a family was surrounded by judgment rather than

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Who Teens Hope Will Listen on Mental Health

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/17

Late last year, the Pew Research Center conducted a survey of almost fourteen hundred teens, ages thirteen to seventeen, to come to an understanding of our teenagers’ experiences and attitudes around social media and their mental health. One of the most interesting findings is one that I also find encouraging. Teens were asked about who they are most comfortable talking about their mental health with. The options included parents, friends, a mental health therapist, a family member other than a

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Raising Genuine Christians

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/16

It’s been twenty five years since Nancy Pearcey and the late Chuck Colson published their book, titled with this question: How Now Shall We Live? The book is still relevant, as it offers us an understanding of how to confront and navigate the cultural narrative in ways that lead Christians to live counter-culturally to the honor and glory of God. There are a couple of sentences in the book that can set us straight as we endeavor to live as followers of Jesus Christ and encourage our kids to do the

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Are our Kids Losing their Hearing?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/15

I love listening to music. As a music lover, nothing enhances my own listening experience as much as a good set of ear buds and a volume setting that I’m sure is higher than it should be. Lately, my difficulty hearing conversations when there’s ambient noise have me wishing I could rewind to turn down the volume that I’m sure now effects my hearing as I’ve gotten older. The World Health Organization tell us that globally, thirty-four million children have deafness or hearing loss, of which sixty

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Chatbot Relationships

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2025/07/14

Listen to these heartfelt words of warning from Megan Garcia, the mother of a fourteen year-old boy who died by suicide in February: “There is a platform out there you might not have heard about, but you need to know about it because, in my opinion, we are behind the eight ball here. A child is gone. My child is gone.” Her son, Sewell, had logged on to a site known as Character.AI. The site allows users to create and interact with fictional chatbot characters. Kids who are lonely are especially

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