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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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An Encouragement for Parents

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/22

After he became a grandfather and then a great-grandfather, my dad would oftentimes look at me and say, “I’m so glad that I’m not raising kids in today’s world.” My dad recognized that while he didn’t raise his own kids in a perfect world, the culture was changing and morphing over the course of his life. He recognized that his grand children and great-grand children were growing up in a world where kids were facing new challenges, difficult choices, increased pressures, and hard to navigate

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Guiding Kids into Vocational Faithfulness

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/21

Parents, what will your children choose as a career? I remember wondering that about each of my four kids from the moment they were born. You have probably done the same. A new survey found that seventy-five percent of today’s parents say they already know what their child will be when they grow up. At the top of the list are careers in the science, technology, and engineering fields. After that comes careers in healthcare, and jobs in the food industry. It seems that these choices have been made

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What Story Will Your Kids Live

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/20

Parents, are you aware that each and every minute of every day your kids are choosing to live into some kind of story? In today’s world, the most pervasive and compelling story our kids choose to follow is that story which is laid out in the cultural narrative. This story comes to them through social media, music, film, education, the peer group, and more, teaching them who to be, what to believe, and how to live in the world. Because they are growing and changing, our children and teens are

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Is Social Media Discipling Your Kids

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/19

Recently, our friend Chris Martin, author of the book “Terms of Service: The Real Cost of Social Media”, said that our kids are spending so much time online, that social media is likely the greatest force of discipleship among the teens in our homes and churches. He offers these three suggestions on how to reclaim our God-given roles as those called to disciple our kids. First, we have to be willing to change our own habits. The average social media user spends about two and a half hours a day on

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When Do Our Kids Feel Loved

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/16

It’s been my experience that research findings often confirm what we’ve known to be true through observation, intuition, and common sense. That’s certainly the case with a new study entitled “When Do Adolescents Feel Loved?” that’s been published in the journal, Emotion. The study tells us that in parent teen relationships there are daily fluctuations in feeling loved. Any parent and former teen knows this to be true. But according to the study, how we choose to communicate and resolve conflict can

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Youth Sports and Brain Injuries

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/15

Over the past few years, we’ve been tracking with the latest research on the effects of sports-related impacts to the head in an effort to help you make wise decisions regarding your child’s participation in youth sports. Our friends at the Concussion Legacy Foundation in Boston are providing the most helpful data and resources, and we encourage you to visit their website to learn more. They have developed a growing database of research on how blows to the head can result in what is called Chronic

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He Had a Phone in His Pocket!

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/14

Last month, Pittsburgh Pirates’ second basemen Rodolfo Castro slid into third base. What’s the big deal with that? After all, major league baseball players slide into bases during every game. This slide caught the attention of everyone for the simple fact that during his slide, his smartphone went flying out of his back pocket. The video is a bit funny as the third base umpire points to the phone, informing the surprised Castro that it had fallen out of his pocket. Castro picked up the phone, handed

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Helping Kids Handle Money

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/13

Parents, how much time and money did you give away last year? And what are you teaching your kids about tithing? In the Old Testament, we learn that we are to give ten percent of our property, produce, and income to the Lord and his work. All throughout church history and up until today, tithing is rightly emphasized as a way to faithfully steward that which God has entrusted to us as we not only fund God’s work, but are reminded that all we have is ultimately not our own. There are no reliable

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Locked in on their Smartphones

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/12

Over the course of the summer, I made it a point to pay special attention to when and where children and teens are locked in on their smartphones during their daily comings and goings. In my own neighborhood alone, I saw kids walking up and down the street with their heads down and eyes focused on their phones. I saw one girl riding her bike and doing the same. I noticed a couple of teenage boys cutting the family lawn, and stopping every couple of passes to reach down into their pocket, grab their

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Marvel's Gay Spiderman

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/09

Here at CPYU, we are continually reminding you that youth culture is both a map and a mirror. As a mirror, cultural artifacts reveal the current beliefs that are shaping the behaviors of our children and teens. When you watch and listen to the music, movies, and everything else, you’ll gain a clearer sense of our culture’s ideological bent. As a map, what our kids interact with in today’s youth culture shapes their beliefs and behaviors about how to live in the world. This is why it’s important for

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Why Teens Wear Hoodies on Hot Days

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/08

Forbes magazine recently ran an article about teens with a headline that really grabbed my attention. The headline read, “Is there science behind why teens wear hoodies in summer heat?” Perhaps you, like me, often find yourself scratching your head and wondering why that kid over there is wearing a sweatshirt on a ninety-five degree day. Meterologist Marshall Shepherd decided to look into this and posits that there are some obvious reasons for the summer hoodies. They protect the skin from sun

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Snapchat's New Parent Help Feature

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/07

Because we are facing the challenge of raising kids in a world increasingly filled with digital technology and social media apps, it’s important that parents focus on teaching their growing, vulnerable, and easily influenced children and teens how to navigate these platforms and tools to the glory of God. Last month, the highly popular Snapchat social media platform, released a new feature designed to help parents monitor their teen’s snapchat use for the purpose of insuring their health and safety

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A Little League Lesson

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/06

I’m guessing that by now you’ve already seen the viral video of the moving sequence of events that took place last month in a Little League baseball game after a 12-year-old player was hit in the head by a pitch thrown by another 12-year-old. Oklahoma Little Leaguer Isaiah Jarvis was batting when the errant pitch from Pearland, Texas pitcher Kaiden Shelton hit him in the head, knocking him to the ground. After being tended to and cleared to go to first base, Jarvis saw that Shelton was visibly upset

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The Teenage Dirtbag Trend

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/05

If you’ve ever looked back at your high school yearbook, you’ve realized just how much the beloved hair and clothing styles you embraced then, look horribly out of style now. It doesn’t matter how young or old you are. Looking back with a “what was I thinking” response is common to us all. Over the course of last summer, this reality fueled a TikTok video trend that went viral which is known as the Teenage Dirtbag trend. Celebrities along with hundreds of thousands of TikTokers have posted videos

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Living in Light of Eternity

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/02

From time to time I share with you some of the cultural lies our children and teens are being encouraged to believe. One such lie is this: Life in this world is more important than the afterlife. Dr. Michael Kruger tells us that some in the church are now teaching kids to turn away from eternal matters to focus solely on earthly matters. We are told, “Don’t worry yourself with what happens after death. Nobody really knows anyway. All that really matters is helping the poor, feeding the hungry, and

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Vaping and Long-Term Health

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/09/01

The American Heart Association has released a new scientific statement regarding the dangers related to adolescents using the increasingly popular electronic cigarettes. Scanning the tobacco racks behind the cash register at your local quick mart offers ample evidence of just how popular e-cigarettes have become. The latest research evidence suggests that the use of these products has adverse health effecst that will accrue over time, leading our kids to an increased risk of cardiovascular and

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Spiritual Smorgasbord

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/31

Even when they might show and tell you otherwise, the reality is that our kids have been made for a relationship with God and are always searching for redemption. They might not consciously know it, but they are always hungry for heaven as they endeavor to find meaning and purpose. That’s the case for all humans. Recently, this was made clear in an art exhibition held in a German museum. While the exhibition didn’t promote Christianity, its art offered a smorgasbord of other spiritual options for

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Caring about Love and Sex

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/30

Are you paying attention to the lies that are creeping in to the church? New Testament scholar and culture-watcher Dr. Michael Kruger points out that one of the most widespread of these false ideas says that Christians should care more about love and less about sex. This is one of the lies that our kids are hearing, believing, and living out the most these days. Kruger says, “From a rhetorical perspective, such language is quite effective. After all, it tells people what they really want to hear –

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Limiting Online Gaming

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/29

Due to the fact that online gaming is a relatively recent phenomenon, research into the effects of online gaming on children and teens is still in its infancy. But experts are now suggesting that anecdotal evidence points to a thirty to forty percent increase in cases of aggressive behavior by children addicted to online games. Granted, the evidence is purely anecdotal, but we shouldn’t dismiss it for that reason. Rather, we should sit up and take notice. Experts believe that the addictive nature of

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6 Core Truths

Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller ·

2022/08/26

In his classic must-read book, “Knowing God”, the late theologian J.I. Packer gives some advice to all Christians that I believe is especially appropriate for parents. As moms and dads committed to leading our kids into a vibrant and genuine life-long faith in Jesus Christ, we should take Packer’s guidance to heart. Packer says that the secret to a God-honoring and Christian life is to take six core truths about the faith and say them over and over to ourselves first thing in the morning, last thing

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