Tim Elmore

The Sheriffs Association had endorsed…a liquid, non-euphoric form of pot, Charlotte’s Web for use by cancer and epilepsy

Quitting addiction demands a momentum toward purpose, community, deep intimacy, and renewing your identity

Is addiction a disease or is it a choice?

Do you have a strategy for students who are addicted to porn?

We’ve all been victims of the mean girl at school, but what happens when things go way too far? In the new film A Girl Like Her

Every shirt you buy contributes a small amount to the large amount of work…Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and South Korea

Sometimes a stay at home parent questions their choices and their worth

Husbands A Bigger Source Of Stress Than Kids For Nearly Half Of Moms

(like working their tails off to go to a mission trip instead of asking others to pay their way) will have a much greater effect on their spiritual life

If you are developing a broader ministry to families in your church…here are some great resources to help you

Marko

By Greg Baird

…it’s important to stay current with online forms of communication

By Walt Mueller

Insights into who we are

Sponsor orphans in india

What a blessing we have to impact a country of 1 billion people where only 4% are Christian! Vision 2 Hear is super stoked to be able to go places like this and make a difference

For the Training Center of youth Agricultural and Deaf, so they could have an income to support their families

Vision 2 Hear El Salvador is part of The Youth Culture Report

“I didn’t want to be the dad that just didn’t know how to do my daughter’s hair.”

The ethics of the issue should be properly discussed before a decision was made

UK voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man

Jay-Z Buys Streaming Company Aspiro To Take on Spotify

There are lots of trolls and creeps that comment

..users a sense of greater privacy when compared to larger, more public social networks

With 20 minutes of sex in its 100-minute running time

The same four-hour commute to the plant since 2005

Nationally, the ratio of high school students to a school counselor is nearly 500 to 1

Handling Conflict

Proactively Responding to Parent Conflict in Youth Ministry

noting that added sugars, such as high fructose corn syrup, dextrose and glucose, boost calorie counts without any health benefits

Terrorists need to know that schools aren’t defenseless, and armed teachers could potentially hold off gunmen

Can It Be Reduced by Parental and Spiritual Influence?

So what did I take away from this year’s Super Bowl?

Fourth-grader says he has the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings, school suspends him for terrorist threat

Once teens are online, Walfish says monitoring their accounts and behavior is key

Research into how the human brain develops helps explain why teens have trouble controlling impulses

by Jonathan McKee

-NFL 2015-

Walt Mueller

Jim Liebelt

Jim Liebelt

Jim Liebelt

Soon, friends of hers were asking if she’d make them a book, too, for their own kids’ art, and the small business was born

Knight founded Death Row Records, one of rap’s leading labels, in the 1990s, artists like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur

List of carcinogens: including benzene, a component of gasoline, formaldehyde, lead and nickel. Laced with nicotine

“extreme behaviors,” adding that “it is hard alcohol — rather than just beer or wine — that lands students on a hospital gurney.”

Justin Bieber Apologizes For the Past Few Years of Justin Biebery

The role of media and technology in the development of kids’ and teens’ body image attitudes and behaviors

..parents play a huge part in shaping how kids relate to their bodies

Help your daughters learn to identify unrealistic media representations of beauty and to value themselves for who they are

From selfies to shout-outs, girls are using social media both to build up and break down their self-image

Also trademarked is her commandment/aesthetic “party like it’s 1989,”

De Blasio campaigned on the promise of letting churches rent school space. Now he’s asking the Supreme Court to prohibit it

‘We want to see women’s achievements, not their breasts, on the most prominent page of your family newspaper.’

Barna

…and a few things they don’t need

By Andrew Root

By Doug Fields

By Andrew Root

Jr High Uth Guy

by Carey Nieuwhof

“About 1 in 3 high school students have been or will be involved in an abusive relationship,”

Family trips are 4 days and only $129 per person

In our divided modern culture where our adullts and youth often experience their faith separately, these opportunities increasingly are rare

we haven’t had any interaction or heard from in more than 20 years

California porn industry faces new risks

After 10 years, the Maryland School for the Blind suspended a Bible study for blind teenagers…because of “church-state” issues.

…Dimethylpolysiloxane is “added as an anti-foaming agent” but it’s also a silicon-based organic polymer used to make Silly Putty

The more religious a teen is, the less likely he or she is to abuse drugs

This is one reason for they party scene is always so popular: instant acceptance

I don’t really believe in resolutions..What I do think January is a great time for is goal setting

In 9 countries. Almost half said that pornography was made of them while they were in prostitution

Marijuana shouldn’t be legalized because of the potential harm it can cause children and teens, the American Academy of Pediatrics says

Adolescence, lack of sleep may be related to high-risk behaviors such as substance abuse, suicidal behaviors and drowsy driving

Sleep and memory go hand-in-hand

College students age 18 to 25 years old have the highest rates of binge drinking episodes

Binge drinking increases the risk of accidents and traumatic injuries. One-third of trauma patients have alcohol in their systems

It’s a virus that is responsible for almost all cases of cervical cancer

My children have everything that they could possibly want and need, but yet still, they are disrespectful and “out of control” behavior

“The perfect tool for connecting with todays teenagers”-Dr. Kevin Leman

The show touches on many of the issues teens’ face – from drinking and the pressure to have sex – to sexual abuse and suicide

“The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information,”

Each family dinner adds up to benefits for adolescents

A felony for anyone to participate in a criminal street gang,…or benefit from that activity.

Jim Liebelt

Jim Liebelt

Jim Liebelt

An Open Letter from Alex Malarkey “The boy who came back from heaven”

About 70% of marriages that began in the 1990s reached their 15th anniversary

Trends in YA reading show that teens are looking for contemporary realism…real issues—things that they themselves could face

Social media a great supplement to existing relationships; it’s a lousy replacement for relationships

We are off to a bad start in 2015

“Research shows the young adult brain, still developing between 18 and 21, is highly susceptible to nicotine addiction,”

New E-Cigs have a higher voltage and the vapor they produce is a lot stronger in at least one carcinogen than traditional smokes

Nearly 9% of eighth-graders said they’d used an e-cigarette in the past month

“Her cancer-ridden little body was alive again.” Without the cannabis oil, her condition has declined and she’s in intensive care on morphine

by Rachel Blom