*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on Nation’s Restaurant News. Teen spending on food has hit a new high in Piper Jaffray’s twice-a-year survey of that age group, with limited-service brands like Starbucks and McDonald’s leading preferences. The “Spring 2017 Taking Stock With Teens” survey of nearly 5,500 students…
Have you been watching? It’s compelling. It will suck you in. It’s certainly done that for millions of kids. It’s the Neflix series “13 Reasons Why.” High School student Hannah Baker has taken her own life. But before she does, she records a series of messages to individuals who have given her a reason. Like I…
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What we are learning: All Access This is our MSM Small Group series immediately following Easter this year (April22-May7, 2017). At concerts there is also a velvet rope that only special people will all-access passes can cross. Maybe you’ve felt the same way when it comes to God. Sure, you come to church and sing…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on eMarketer. According to a Think with Google survey conducted by Ipsos, roughly seven in 10 teen smartphone users spend at least three hours per day watching video on their phones. That’s a higher percentage of respondents than any other smartphone activity mentioned, including social networking….
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I had a whole lot of ideas about raising a teenager in a social media world right up to the moment that I actually had a teenager in a social media world. When my 13-year-old daughter wanted to join Instagram, we didn’t treat it like a…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on HealthDay. Teens’ use of the photo-sharing service Instagram has both risks and benefits, a new study out of Belgium suggests. Researchers tracked Belgian teens’ Instagram use for six months and linked frequent use to greater depression. But Instagram also made the teens feel closer…
It happened the other night. . . again. I shared the December 2015 data from Common Sense Media regarding media use by teens and tweens. I stated it simply: “Excluding time spend using media for school or homework, our 8-12 year-old tweens spend 6 hours a day engaged with screens. Our 13-18 year-old teens spend…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on PsychCentral. A new study of more than 13,000 adolescents in France finds a significant link between video game exposure and sexism. The research is published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. “Many different aspects of life can influence sexist attitudes,” said co-author…
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