When your high schooler was in middle school, there’s a good chance their biggest motivator was acceptance. They moved in a herd, made decisions as a group, and desperately wanted to fit in. While some of that is still true, your high schooler is changing and before long, his or her biggest motivator will…
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*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on Pew Research Center. Amid roiling debates about the impact of screen time on teenagers, roughly half of those ages 13 to 17 are themselves worried they spend too much time on their cellphones. Some 52% of U.S. teens report taking steps to cut back on…
This week, we released the September edition of our CPYU Monthly Parent Page. . . a subscription-based resource that hundreds of youth workers and churches provide to their parents as a tool to equip them to parent better by understanding how the Gospel speaks to parenting in today’s rapidly changing youth culture. (A subscription costs…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on HealthDay. One of every three American teens has not read a book just for the fun of it in a year, a new study finds. That’s because they’re busy texting, checking social media and playing video games four to six hours a day. The insight…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on eMarketer. A survey of 13- to 18-year-olds conducted for Screen Education, a nonprofit group focused on reducing screen time, found that teens consider more than half of their friends “addicted” to their phones. The survey uncovered widespread anxiety about phone usage, ranging from feelings of…
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*The following is excerpted from an online article from Beloit College. Born in 2000, the first year of the new millennium, for this year’s entering college class of 2022, human beings have always been living — not just traveling — in space. The United States has always been in Afghanistan. Same-sex marriage has always been legal…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on HealthDay. Nearly 40 percent of teen drivers in the United States say they text while driving, a new survey finds. Researchers analyzed survey data from teen drivers aged 14 and older in 35 states and found that more than a third said they’d texted while…
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