#1.Connect the change to the overall mission and vision…

Their audience are children and those children are being raised to believe their value is in how pretty they are and how many guys want them

A fun Rock ‘n’ Roll parable with an upbeat, inspiring, message about finding purpose, revealing secrets, and experiencing redemption

11-year-old boy, who attends an online school was asked to remove a picture of a gun from his digital profile..virtual guns are banned from virtual school

When she saw a display recommending books to read after the soft-pornographic book “After Fifty Shades of Grey.”

11 Signs of Doom

By Greg Stier

A new report puts the price of educating the thousands of illegal immigrant children who recently crossed into the U.S

In 2012, just over 10 percent of high school seniors said they had smoked pot before driving at least once in the prior two weeks

Beware…just because it’s up in the cloud doesn’t mean it can’t come raining back to Earth

I thought it would be fun to think of a few cultural touchstones related to the incoming high school freshman

Bestselling New Testament volumes are made available in electronic form search every page for a passage or topic in only seconds

Most parents who divorce are in denial about how it affects their kids

Dave Rozman

Top entrepreneurs use three simple rules when building up their network of professional contacts

5 Things to Know About Your Future Hires

Dare to be Bright: a systenatic, holistic approach to studying forexams and doing better at school

They loved the 90s TV and Movies..“letting kids be kids” more educational and wholesome. Family, lessons, morals,

by Chris Mucha

Over and over I have to embrace these humbling ideas as I try to lead the people around me. Here they are…

If you do not know how to deliver a message to teenagers you’ll have a hard time influencing and impacting them

by Chris Marchland

There are roles a youth worker plays in the life of our teenagers that can be essential to our students spiritual development

Here’s a list of some of the more common mistakes rookie youth workers make, and some thoughts on how to avoid them

How can we begin to think about making this happen?

Teens are seeking cheaper clothes with no logos that they can use to assemble their own unique outfits

A 19-year-old college student from Georgia secretly filmed a confrontation with his Christian parents who disapproved of him being gay

Black children with fathers without a high school diploma, 50% parental incarceration by 14, compared to 7% of white children

For students entering college this fall in the Class of 2018 they were…

Teens typically need around nine-and-one-quarter hours of sleep a night, according to the National Sleep Foundation

This book is covered in grace…“Mom, Dad, Stepmom, Stepdad, Grandma, or Grandpa, please know this: Jesus is bigger than your mistakes too.”

We need to stop talking, acting..like thugs, and start talking, acting…like men. Stop making the conscious decision to fit the description.”

When it comes to holding themselves accountable for fostering black-on-black violence, Hollywood’s gangstas have adopted a systematic code of silence

Taco Bell launched a campaign this week in which anyone who finds one of 11 specific $1 bills can win a $10,000 gift card

Hulk Statue Creates A Stir During Flood News Coverage

“We are tired of seeing young men of all descriptions… walking around with their pants down and their underwear showing,”

Property can be seized by police without requiring a conviction — or even a criminal charge, in some cases — and the proceeds have padded the Philadelphia District Attorney’s

Branded New Video

Book Review – “Teaching Teenagers in a Post-Christian World”
Bill Nance

Noted Surgeon Wants Young Athletes to Stay Healthy

…is not safe and may result in addiction and neurocognitive damage, especially in youth

As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes

Children and teenagers spend more than seven and a half hours a day using smartphones, computers, televisions and other electronic screens

The Dad was pushing his broken-down car with his two sons back in 2012 when Jose Banda, a drunken driver, fatally struck the two boys

by Adam McLane

Marko: Our middle school grade son seems to have no real friendships…Is this normal?

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“effectively forces states down a path toward a national curriculum” in violation of the state sovereignty clause in the Constitution and federal..

Books: The Bestsellers Americans Are (and Aren’t) Reading

It’s a far cry from traditional TV

Fanta’s Vine-Based Comedy Series Draws Teens

Have you ever asked your own kids for parenting advice?

The young homeless man who accompanied Miley Cyrus to the MTV Video Music Awards has a warrant out for his arrest in Oregon

by Christopher Wesley

by Josh Griffin

Nearly half (46%) maintain that public schools have further declined in the last five years

Our culture has literally grown numb to the growing sexualization of our girls

By Andrew Hale

famous scene…Lena Headey — to walk out of the Church of St. Nicholas onto the streets naked

The Complete List of Primetime Winners

Conservatives, on the other hand, are continuously forced to examine their worldview based on what more liberal professors throw their way

Twitter reacts to singer’s ‘double standard’ I don’t think beyonce is or should be considered the modern age face of feminism.

Tomlin added young girls are “too sexually available”..contemporary culture is too sexualized

She told an NBC reporter that it contained liquid pot

What I love about this book is that it isn’t a book of whining or joking about all the problems we face. ..practical, real-life stories and advice

This article isn’t about female leaders. It’s about male leaders interacting with female students

Young people who travel abroad to commit violent Jihad should know before they go that…

There’s Now an App For That

You take a group of young men and you raise them with no respect for authority, not learning to take on personal responsibility,having easy access to drugs and alcohol, they’re very likely to end up as victims of violence or incarceration

Four guys at North Carolina State University are doing something proactive (and unorthodox): inventing a nail polish that can detect date rape drugs

The winners and nominees

From Beyonce to Iggy to Sam

1.6 million runaway and homeless children and teens in America

When we sanction messages like “Girls Rule. Boys Drool.” we affirm a false message about what it means to be made in God’s image

Here are two reasons why you need ministry to girls as a part of your student ministry

…“completely absurd,” and is “perfect example of ‘political correctness’ that has exceeded the boundaries of common sense.”

He has a similar accent, build and skin tone to “John,” the man who killed Foley

Greg Stier

Greg Stier

A Growing Number of Teens Are Caught In Their Grip

The Full List Of 2014 MTV Video Music Award Nominees

Advice from a Youth Ministry Veteran

SEX BOX coming to your boob tube next year?

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by Jim Liebelt

by Jim Liebelt

by Jim Liebelt

Hilarious Video On Starting A New School Year

The 68 implicated sailors are in addition to the 10 whom Richardson said are believed to have been “at the center” of the cheating ring

Studies Find More Students Cheating

TIM ELMORE: What Must We Do to Change Our Ways?

What the Trends in Games Teach Us About Kids Today and do parents view “struggle” as a negative thing?

Prepare for Your See You at the Pole Gathering

Track attendance for events, monitor attendance trends over time by gender and school, and create smart filtered groups for powerful communication

Do the work of connecting these to students’ lives in new and compelling ways—ways that make them…

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Dave Rozman

A few things I have found to be helpful as you get ready to kick off the new school year