Wow! This is a powerful blog by Brandon Janous and our friends at Parent Cue. This blog made me want to lean into my family…

I love this rendition the Nativity Story. It was filmed in Kenya and imagined by children with some of their cultural traditions. It’s beautiful

O Come All Ye Faithful, Except When Christmas Falls on a Sunday

And How to Fix It WEBINAR

Because children are vulnerable, they need to be protected. After more than two decades as a family counselor, Julie Lowe has…

How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Allowing transgender students to compete on girls’ teams put biologically female athletes at a disadvantage and deprived them of honors and opportunities

A transgender student in Oklahoma was charged with assault after the student allegedly punched two female students in the girls’ restroom

A high school group that promotes a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology

Two Freebies for a Holly-Jolly Youth Event

More disturbing information is surfacing regarding the police-hating drag queen, Marti Gould Cummins, whom Joe Biden invited to the White House

Biden has previously described Republicans as “immoral” for passing laws to block transgender procedures for children

Many cited high rent, money concerns, and job losses as reasons why

Violent and disrespectful classroom behavior has led to a staggering 50 teachers and bus drivers to quit a Florida school district in the last two years

American Academy of Pediatrics executive admits children on trans hormones ‘probably will be infertile

We’ve all been there… Your plans fell through, something changed, or you just got too busy… and you have to come up with a new plan!

Well, it’s that private information could potentially end up in Chinese hands and used in ways that would negatively impact Americans

The app misleads children in particular about the level of inappropriate content and the security of consumer information

A weekly listing of hot cultural items from the Internet, music, television, and movies

Marijuana abuse among 6- to 18-year-olds has increased 245% since 2000, while child alcohol abuse has steadily declined over those years

School counselors must be prepared to talk about sexting and pornography use with students, and to change the narrative about these behaviors

Making their brain structures appear several years older than the brains of comparable peers before the pandemic

Two Fed-Up Pastors Have Brilliant Solution to Drag Queen Story Hour: ‘Push Back on Evil’

In June, Newendorp shared a poem, “Jesus at the Gay Bar,” to Instagram. “Love Jesus. Be gay. Get ordained,”

After inhaling, the sticky and sugary content of the vaping liquid sticks to the teeth — causing all the damage

She was pimping me and I didn’t like that. She would pimp me to men

The Balenciagas Of An Anti-Christian World ‘Condemn’ Child Abuse While Castrating, Traumatizing, And Exploiting Kids

Over the last 15 years I have learned some things in regards to caring for and leading volunteers and I wanted to share my top 4 thoughts

18 Festive Holiday Celebrations

Who has my heart? What are my motives? How do I make choices?

“We found our students had disengaged more and more from real life as their phones became their world,”

Prior projects have found a connection between adolescent social media use and disordered eating or negative body image

Thousands of child victims are being denied justice and George Gascón and his group of radical prosecutors can care less

Sleepaway summer camp can help promote essential socio-emotional abilities in kids, such as the ability to control oneself, cooperate, or help others

Words cannot adequately express the joy grandkids bring us and the sadness we so often feel when they live far away from

Loving our children’s children can also bring heartache or pain. Larry Fowler puts it so well in his book Overcoming

Growing Body Of Evidence Shows ‘Social Influence’ Is Causing Teens To Undergo Sex Changes

To some degree, Christians date and marry nonbelievers because of a lack of imagination

Father, I know that I’ve spent much more time this week fearing for my child rather than depending on you. Forgive me for trusting so much in myself and so little in you

So when you are tempted to beat yourself up for parenting failures (real or perceived), look up to see God’s smile upon you

In a culture where the majority of people self-identify as Christians, it’s important for youth workers (and all Christians, in general) to double-down on a commitment to Christology – which asks two big questions, “Who is Jesus” and “What did Jesus accomplish?”

As teen, 18, tells how her reaction to the jab saw her miss her Year 12 exams

Michigan Department Of Education Provided Educators With Materials On How To Create A ‘Gay Straight Alliance’ Club

Contextualization is really about effective communication and making sure what we say is the same thing that is received. I am not changing the message

Kids and student ministry leaders need to work together to create a discipleship plan that goes from preschool through high school

Prioritizing personal faith life over professional ministry success

As youth ministers, we are no strangers to the mental health crisis facing the teenagers we serve

The Barna Group conducted a global survey that included over 24,000 teenagers from 26 different countries

A critical period for neuroplasticity in the frontal cortex during the teenage years, a time at which risk-taking behaviors and mental illness risk peak

Discipling Those Called to Ministry Leadership

(& What to Say to Them)

Sharing life together with the parents allowed me to set an example to strengthen the relationship between the students and parents

A childlike faith isn’t at odds with intellectual curiosity. In fact, a child’s appetite for learning could be the conduit through which he is brought to a saving faith

In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse

Greg Stier

Shying away from hard subjects does little to prepare children to defend a faith that’s increasingly under attack

by Melissa Keffler

By Walt Mueller

Despite long-term trends away from religion, Barna Group finds openness in teens

by Christian Vargus

5 ways you can nurture faith that goes beyond youth group

We must not fall for the lie of culture that our bodies are to be changed to meet our self-perception

The state of Generation Z’s faith

We have a generation of young people for whom the call to repentance must include a call to turn from porn

But understanding how teenagers see the world or what makes them behave in a certain way is important

One 15-year-old caller said 80% of their friends vape and they feel strongly addicted, they vape upon waking and pick it up every five minutes

A weekly listing of hot cultural items from the Internet, music, television, and movies

A new trend promoted on the social media platform TikTok has people taping their lips shut at bedtime — a practice that could be dangerous, an expert warns

Strict parenting can alter the way the body reads the DNA of children

Which now moves to the Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine for approval

If Michiganders Re-Elect Whitmer And Pass Prop 3, Kids Aren’t Safe From Sexualization At School. the Democrats’ efforts to use the schools to sexualize kids and peddle gender-bending ideologies

The Michigan Department of Education has adopted a radical gender theory program that promotes gender “fluidity” beginning in elementary school and encourages teachers to facilitate the sexual transition of minors without parental consent

Democrat party is allowing men to play in women’s sports, and into women’s locker rooms, sexualizing your children, emptying prisons, opening the border, aborting black babies, closing schools, forced vaccinations, record inflation, and the worst economy since Jimmy Carter was president.

70% of the examined face masks contained TiO2 in quantities ranging from 100 to 2000 mg kg−12

Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage

There is no one-size-fits-all answer, but there are factors that it can be traced back to. Let’s take a look at five of them

Optimism about next generation’s ability to have a better life than parents drops

Anyone who works with Gen Z is facing a mental health crisis in this generation at levels they’ve never seen before

Creating a culture of belonging, welcoming teenagers as God has welcomed us in Christ

New guidelines say it can have significant effects it on a child’s psychology

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Walt Mueller

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Our teens desperately for need for the adults in their lives to be equipped to share Biblical truth and hope whenever the topic comes up

The goal, first and foremost, is to treat each individual as an image bearer of God, worthy of love. The second, is to guide that individual toward professional help and toward hope in Christ.

It’s not that religious people don’t have suicidal thoughts or take their own lives — after all, even ministers sometimes die by suicide, she said. Rather, a spiritual group may provide a valuable sense of belonging and support to those who are suffering from thoughts of self-harm

Flashback: Even Christian Kids Contemplate & Attempt Suicide

(As I’m doing research on teen suicide, I found the survey by Christian camp Falls Creek insightful and the Content/breakout session they did with the students. This is part of an article that we posted many years ago by Andy Harrison.)….(I decided to make a list information from previous articles…

US math scores among fourth- and eighth-grade students saw largest ever drop amid COVID-19 pandemic

A “Face the Nation” Republican, Democrat, independent agreed “woke culture” has become a concern for parents raising children in America

3 Things I Would Tell Myself as a Newer Youth Worker

“What’s being consumed in these concentrates is devastating for their mental health.”

Over 1,100 adolescents underwent gender transition surgery from 2016 through 2019, according to a new study published in JAMA

Documentary on young women who went through medical gender transition, with cross-sex hormones and surgeries, and regret it

A gender-affirming doctor who works for Plume, an online telehealth service that offers gender-affirming hormone therapy through a cell phone app, believes that young gender-confused females can “try out” testosterone if they choose to do so.

Far-left counter-protesters MELT DOWN

…he once pledged to ‘do away with’. Again in April 2018, he said, “I’m opposed to that $75 million tax credit, that school voucher system.”

Tucker Carlson provides an update on the possibility the CDC will include the COVID-19 vaccine on the childhood immunization schedule on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight

A recent Harvard-Harris poll showed that 64% of voters find the rise in crime to be the fault of “woke politicians,” with less than a third of respondents saying the country is “on the right track.”

Young people are leaving the church because they feel they do not belong to Christianity, they do not believe the Christian faith, and they do not affirm the behaviors that Christianity encourages

In this episode of the Rooted Parent Podcast, Cameron and Anna visit with author Megan Hill about her recent book A Place to Belong: Learning to Love the Local Church