There are websites where explicit screenshots of Snapchat pictures live

72% of parents are simply sticking their heads in the sand and just “hoping for the best”?

By Dave Ramsey’s daughter, Rachel Cruze

Players needed to earn back the privilege of playing football..through community service and better behavior off the field

The University of Virginia didn’t make the cut despite finishing number one last year

The purpose of this survey is to gain a better understanding of the demographics, activities, and practices of youth ministries in America

Moralez committed suicide in 2010, with her mother saying the rape was a significant factor

by Duffy Robbins

When (Football) chokes out family life and undermines spiritual formation, I’ll punt on it every time.

Takes over a school’s intercom to play Cyrus’ tune, creating an all-out party, which leads to Miley smoking in bathrooms

What is your state the worse at?

This is a high deductible plan where I’m assuming a lot of risk for my health insurance for my family. And nothing has changed

I realized that ministry must involve the student’s parents, not just the student

How I make my iPhone work for me instead of the other way around!

Movie Review

America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong

Suspended student maybe expelled for the rest of the year for playing with toy gun…in his own yard

..implications, including what young children can be expected to learn in school

I am more aware now more than ever before in my ministry how little parents know about what’s happening

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

80% of parental controls FAIL to filter out all explicit content

Elizarova says more needs to be done to protect vulnerable teenage girls in the fashion industry

Selena Gomez who “has a classic look and is growing up gracefully.” But…

BrdsNBz service lets teens text sex questions to a hotline

Bill Provides Reset Button For Youngsters Online Posts

Walt Mueller

How One High School Is Reprogramming Their Classes

STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics is expected to increase significantly over the next five years

The “knockout” Game Players were two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old

1.5 Million

Will Ferrell showed up on stage in shorts and with his three (adorable) kids

Social media, sexualisation and the selfie generation

5 Monday reminders to small group leaders

“You’re being rewarded for showing more of yourself and more of your sexuality.”

The picture my mum took of me..I think nudity can be a part of art

Failure to return the form shall be considered authorization for school to administer Corporal punishment

Grand Theft Auto Online’s player count may have been increased from the previously confirmed 16 to 32

How do they measure up under the hood?

Quick, here’s everything you need to know!

“If I win, it would mean that the school recognizes me as the gender I always felt I was,”

Minority children in this study were less likely to receive pain medications, and that’s concerning

Her Brother Asks Santa for His Help

I’m not raising children; I’m raising the grownups they’re going to be. I have to raise them with the tools to get through a terrible life

Don’t get me wrong – there are tons of people who play in the NFL and are strong believers in the Lord..

Warren Buffett Invites Good Deed Dairy Queen Teen to Shareholders Meeting

Abercrombie and its rivals Aeropostale and American Eagle Outfitters all came in with poor results last month

How Will They Lead?

Those who stay were twice as likely to have a close personal friendship with an adult inside the church

Student was informed that he would be suspended for 10 days under the school’s zero-tolerance policy

Mom: “I try to instill values in my son,”… And now my son wants to know what a pimp is.”

“What happened next I would have never expected,” an anonymous customer..

What Young People Want Out Of Church and Religion?

Parenting Review by Josh Evans

Jonathan McKee: “Long boring sermons just don’t work.”

..you caused destruction to this house but we’re going to sue the person whose house you ruined,’ that’s crazy

But if you use Twitter just to send tweets, you’re also missing out on the great content ministry leaders are putting out there

A lot of attention has gone toward the dynamics of Girl World. Why is Boy World less understood?

More than Worldwide Haul of ‘Man of Steel’

they claimed to be officers to cut in front of a line of hundreds of other people and buy a copy of the video game

NY Giants Player Dubbed ‘Black Tim Tebow’ Talks Virginity, Alcohol

“We want to know, what’s the standard you are using to label these kids as gang members who have never been in trouble?”

San Antonio Youth Pastor concerned about the new “nondiscrimination” law

By George Lockhart: Things I’m learning from Miley Cyrus and about myself

Rates of the most extreme binge drinking were higher in the South than in the Northeast and West

“But that was the whole point…it wasn’t sexually charged at all.”

What Can We Do To Address Loneliness?

See you at the pole 2013 Global week of student prayer Sept 22-28

“Imagine the floodgates that would burst open if they were to go to a cathedral and receive bibles?”

Things I’m learning from Miley Cyrus and about myself.

Here’s a bit George Lockhart wrote for The Youth Culture Report.

No one would debate the fact that there has been more than a hurricane of hub-bub over Miley Cyrus during the last several weeks. Her appearance on the MTV Video Music Awards catapulted her to more than water…

iPhone/iPod, iPad, Android, Android Tablet

Greenfield argues that games train your nervous system to be more efficient at killing

Those with lower incomes were far more likely to use their phone as their primary Internet device

“I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I’m an adult and I’m acting like a kid.”

This recent wave of titles are not necessarily less violent, but they contextualize it, giving it a role beyond exploitation

Adolescent brains have a much higher sensitivity to rewards.. that comes with making a positive choice

Tuesday September 24th, beginning at 11am Pacific

By: Dr. Kara Powell, If parents are addicted to technology..that’s the posture children will mimic

Movie review

It wouldn’t have mattered if Miley would have worn jeans and a flannel shirt …

It is always God’s Will that I…

Constant busyness will ultimately lead us to a desert where joy evaporates and emptiness fills our lives and relationships

Education reform, more parental involvement in the lives of children and higher expectations for young black students

‘Project X’-Inspired House Paarty

Teen’s invite to house party goes viral, but it’s later canceled

Experts studied development and drinking of 3,000 twins from Finland

“Work B**ch”

$42 Million

The FBI has joined the search for 14-year-old Alexandra Ponte

Parents Try to Make Kids Hip With DJ Classes

The findings showed that males are more likely to drive after using drugs or drinking alcohol

…to reclaim some of his family life from technology

Dad sports Daisy Dukes to teach a lesson and his teenage daughter gives her side of the story

Answers – and justice – remain elusive in ‘bullied’ Connecticut student’s suicide

15-year-old high school girl designed a flashlight that’s powered entirely by body heat

He’s proud to be a Christian, what’s wrong with that?..sports media and pop culture media, they make fun of his religion. Really? In America?

And it wasn’t until I was 19 that I saw one of these women as a person

Maryland Cheer Squad on Probation

The jobs outnumber students 3-1 in computer programming

This is the perfect little training video to show to your youth ministry team who want to connect with teenagers

My mom told me to change my ‘slutty’ shorts before we went to dinner. I said no. So my dad….