*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…
So, your kid is in 6th grade this year. You probably already know this, but sixth grade is a HUGE year in a person’s life. It probably won’t feel like it most weeks, but what you’re doing this year is going to dramatically influence the future for your kid. There is no other year of…
*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…
Trending Today on Twitter – 8/24/18 1. #FridayFeeling 2. #NationalWaffleDay 3. #AnswerIsHere 4. #FlashbackFriday 5. #TennisFlicks 6. IDOL 7. Maple Tree Inn 8. FriYAY 9. I With a Vocabulary From 10. Randolph County Source: Twitter Trending Today on Google – 8/24/18 1. Kobe Bryant 2. Younes Bendjima 3. Jim Parsons 4. Epic Games 5. Cleveland…
Trending Today on Twitter – 8/17/18 1. #ParentingIn5WordsOrLess 2. #BlackCatAppreciationDay 3. #NationalNonprofitDay 4. #FridayMotivation 5. #FlashbackFriday 6. Apocalypse Now 7. Imran Khan 8. Most Difficult 9. I-43 10. Aretha Franklin Had Power Source: Twitter Trending Today on Google – 8/17/18 1. Chris Watts 2. Search Where The Stone Heads Are Looking 3. Ariana Grande 4….
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on Washington Post. Teens! They’re so great at finding innovative ways to cause bodily harm. First they were eating Tide Pods, then they were jumping out of moving vehicles to dance to the new Drake song, or giving themselves frostbite by spraying an entire can of…
What We’re Learning: Limitless August 18-19 to September 1-2 Data limits. Time limits. Age limits. There’s nothing fun about having limits set on us. Many of us feel like our lives are limited in one way or another—like who we are and who we can become have limits. This was especially true for one of…
What We’re Learning: Friended Our MSM Small Group teaching series from the weekends of July 21 & 22 to August 11 & 12 is titled “Friended.” Few things have as much influence in your students’ world in middle school than their peers and friends. We will encourage students to look at who they are hanging…