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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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Teens, Eating, and Sleep

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/05

When I was a little boy and visiting my grandparents, I remember my elderly grandmother walking into the kitchen one morning to announce that she had to stop eating pickles before going to bed. We all laughed a bit at her strange announcement and then she offered up some clarification. It seems that she had discovered that whenever she ate pickles late at night, she would have bad dreams. Well, to this day I’ve wondered about the validity of her cause and effect conclusions, but some new research

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FOMO and Sin

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/04

FOMO is acronym that stands for fear of missing out. The term was introduced almost twenty years ago to describe a phenomenon that experts observed on how people were using social media. FOMO includes two specific processes. First, you perceive that you risk missing out on something that would be rewarding and fun. Then second, you do something compulsive in order to maintain social connections rather than miss out on the fun. In other words, there’s a behavioral response component to FOMO

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Parents, Open Your Ears

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/03

All too often I’m the guy who’s described in Proverbs 18, verses two and thirteen. I’m the fool who “finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions” and the shameful fool “who answers before listening” . I’ve had to learn the hard way that when I’ve been thrust into conversations with my kids where we don’t see eye-to-eye, it’s sometimes best to bite my tongue, shut my mouth, and open my ears. We have to remember that our kids are not yet adults. Therefore, we can expect

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A Parental New Year's Resolution

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2023/01/02

Parents, here’s a challenge to adopt a new years resolution that has you bent on gaining weight. No, I’m not encouraging to go against conventional new year’s resolutions and decide to eat more so that the scale in your home goes on overload. Rather, I’m encouraging you to resolve to weigh yourself down each and every day with the life-giving good weight of ingesting more and more of God’s Word into your mind and heart. As the great J.I. Packer once wrote, “Wisdom is divinely wrought in those, and

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Train Up a Child

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/30

A great amount of parental guilt has been fueled by taking the words of Proverbs 22:6 as a promise: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when is old he will not turn from it.” The first half of that Proverb includes an imperative that we must follow. The responsibility we have to nurture our children in the faith is non-negotiable. But the result mentioned in the second half isn’t a guarantee. Rather, it’s a general statement about the way things may end up. The reality is that history and

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Video Game Addiction By Design

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/29

In a recent guest essay in the New York Times, mobile video gaming developer William Sui reported on steps China has taken to reduce gaming addiction among kids. China has prohibited minors from playing video games on school days. China also legislated no more than an hour of video game playing or weekend and holiday nights. When kids then began flocking to livestreaming platforms to watch others play video games, China barred kids from watching livestreams after ten pm. The Chinese government

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Parents as Vulnerable Sinners

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/28

One of the most heart-breaking and difficult aspects of being a Christian parent who longs to see his kids embrace and mature in their own faith, is the rocky nature of adolescent faith. Much of their “wavering” is simply a part of the teenage territory and the process of adopting their family’s faith as their own. But maybe an even greater amount of that wavering is rooted in their humanness. . . a reality that we share with them. Let’s face it – we are all sinful and fallen people whose lives –

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Poor Parenting and Screen Time

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/27

Recently, several hundred parents who have at least two children between the ages of five to eighteen answered a questionnaire that helped researchers discover if there were any links between the amount of time parents spend looking at screens, and their parenting styles and practices. Researchers found that using screen time as a form of parental relaxation is tied to poor parenting. Poor parenting behaviors included only sometimes enforcing rules depending on one’s mood, yelling at your children,

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Under Whose Authority?

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/26

Have you ever thought about how and why we make the decisions we make? Every decision we make is based on some authority. Same thing goes for our kids. It’s highly likely that your kids rely unconsciously on some combination of authorities including peers, family, the media, and their feelings. While all of these authorities can lead us in the right direction and to good decisions, there is one primary authority we are called to live in conscious submission to. It’s the authority of the One who

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Christmas Communication 5

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/23

Since Christmas is next week and we’ll be gathering with family and friends, we’ve been looking all week at what Doctor Wayne Mack calls “circuit jammers to family communication,” in his helpful book, “Your Family God’s Way.” Dr. Mack warns against hasty, knee-jerk speech. You see, a quick response is usually an unwise response. Proverbs 29:20 reads, “Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.” James 1:19 reminds us to “be quick to hear, and slow to

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Christmas Communication 4

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/22

Since Christmas is next week and we’ll be gathering with family and friends, we’re looking all week at what Doctor Wayne Mack calls “circuit jammers to family communication,” in his helpful book, “Your Family God’s Way.” Dr. Mack warns against using cotton-candy speech. When eaten in moderation, cotton candy may not be detrimental to your health. But if it’s the main component of your diet, watch out! Cotton candy can never build a strong and healthy body. People who try to live on it will die of

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Christmas Communication 3

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/21

Since Christmas is next week and we’ll be gathering with family and friends, we’re looking all week at what Doctor Wayne Mack calls “circuit jammers to family communication,” in his helpful book, “Your Family God’s Way.”Dr. Mack warns against the dangerous practice of using verbal manipulation. Because we are older and more experienced than our children, it’s often easy for us to enlist verbal attempt to control, manipulate, or punish our children. For example, what message are you sending to your

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Christmas Communication 2

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/20

Since Christmas is next week and we’ll be gathering with family and friends, I want to look all week at what Doctor Wayne Mack calls “circuit jammers to family communication,” in his helpful book, “Your Family God’s Way.” Dr. Mack warns against adopting patterns of mind-reading speech. It’s unwholesome to speculate about another person’s thoughts or motives. We can throw a real monkey wrench into our communication with our kids when we assume and tell them what they really meant by what they said

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Christmas Communication 1

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/19

Since Christmas is next week and we’ll be gathering with family and friends, I want to look all week at what Doctor Wayne Mack calls “circuit jammers to family communication,” in his helpful book, “Your Family God’s Way.” Parents, the burden falls on us to be sure that we aren’t adopting any of these harmful communication patterns. Dr. Mack warns us against excessive negative talk. This takes place when we constantly complain, find fault, and seldom affirm or talk about the positive virtues of other

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Finding a Good Counselor

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/16

Sometimes the circumstances in our own lives and the stresses of raising and living with teens in today’s rapidly changing culture can become overwhelming, paralyzing, and detrimental to our spiritual and emotional wellbeing. When that happens, we’re not doing anyone any favors if we continue to spiral down out of control. If our normal support systems aren’t enough to carry us through, then it’s time to seek some outside help. . . maybe even some professional counseling. One or two sessions with a

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Digital Self Harm

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/15

It’s important that we pay special attention to any new trends that are sparked by the growing presence of smartphones and technology in today’s youth culture. One new trend has been labeled as “digital self-harm”, and it’s on the rise among our teenagers. Listen carefully to this definition of digital self-harm: “it’s a form of self-aggression that involves anonymously posting hurtful and sometimes verbally abusive remarks about one’s self online.” Kids will create anonymous social media accounts

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Youth Sports and Critical Parents

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/14

Today, I’d like to share with you something that falls under the category of parental common sense, that sadly, all too often has been overlooked. It you have a child or teen playing an organized sport you’ll want to listen carefully to what a group of researchers have reported in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. While the report tells us that enrolling kids in sports can benefit their development, parents need to avoid becoming overly critical of their kids and

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One Mark of Spiritual Maturity

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/13

Some of us in the church believe that we’re doing a good job if we’re raising our kids like those three little monkeys on the statue. You know them – Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil. We believe that if we can somehow shield and bunker our children away from the evil influences of the world, then evil won’t be a part of their lives. This is not only a bad idea, it’s actually a theologically wrong idea. When Jesus calls his followers to be salt and light in the world, He is calling us as He

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Notetaking and Academic Success

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/12

One of the great lessons we need to teach our kids is that not only is the availability of an education a great privilege, but how we engage with our academics should be seen as an avenue to glorify and worship God. Loving God with our minds means that we will work hard at learning as a way to feel God’s pleasure. One way to improve learning and recall in today’s screen-saturated world is to take classroom notes the old-fashioned way. In other words, rather than tapping on laptop keys our kids can

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How a Dad Must Show Grace

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/12/09

All this week we’ve been looking at the powerful role Dads 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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