Tag Archive for adolescence
Navigating Screen Time And Device...
54% of U.S. teens say they spend too much time on their cellphones, and two-thirds of parents express concern over their teen’s…
Value: Teens with religious upbringing
Study: teens raised in a religious or spiritual environment may be less likely to do drugs and engage in risky sexual behaviors.
Raising Kids With Religion Protects...
Kids and teens who are raised with religious or spiritual practices tend to have better health and mental health as they age.
Movie: ‘Eighth Grade’ And The Horror...
For anyone seeking to understand and disciple today’s youth, Eighth Grade provides an insightful glimpse into their world
Internet Safety: Should I Spy On My Kids...
but I’ve noticed these filters and monitoring software solutions also tend to build an “over-confidence” with parents who use them
Infographic: Teens Social Media Life
Teens with low social emotional well being experience more of the negative effects of social media and kids with high social emotional…
In Teen Friendships, Misery Does Love...
A new study finds teens with similar levels of anxiety and depression are more likely to remain friends.
Navigating Screen Time
Amid roiling debates about the impact of screen time on teenagers, roughly half of those ages 13 to 17 are themselves worried…
A Love-Hate Relationship Teenagers And...
Feelings of pressure to respond immediately to notifications, to a sense of being overwhelmed by the flow of messages and information they…
Taking Away Phones Won’t Solve...
Just blaming the machines is a cop-out, a way to avoid the much more difficult task of improving young people’s lives
Helping Kids Cope With Anxiety
Ways to identify signs of anxiety and how to help your kids through their experience with it
Guarding Teens Through The Dangers Of...
13 Reasons Why We Need to Have Conversations With Our Kids
1 In 4 Teenage Girls Deliberately Harm...
Up to 30 percent of teenage girls in some parts of the United States say they have intentionally injured themselves
Hot Cheetos And Takis Under Fire After...
Hot Cheetos and Takis under fire after snacking teen needs gallbladder removal
Average Child Spends Seven Hours A Week...
Survey shows that 40% of parents have to force their video-gamer children to leave the house
Self-Harm Up Among U.S. High School...
This year 1 in 4 high school girls will deliberately injure themselves by methods as extreme as cutting themselves or burning their…
How Teens Choose To Communicate via...
Detailed analysis of Instagram, Snapchat, Texting, Calling, FaceTime.
The CDC, Teen Risks, And Who Is...
Fewer high school students are drinking, having sex and using drugs… but still “leaves room for concern.”
For Teens, More Screen Time Tied To Less...
Greater amounts of daily screen time are associated with more insomnia symptoms and shorter sleep duration among adolescents.
Study: Depression Striking More Young...
There’s been a sharp spike in cases of major depression among teens and millennials
Teens Exposed To More Junk Food Ads Eat...
The largest study of its kind found teens who were exposed to more junk food advertising consumed more unhealthy foods every week.
Are Smartphones Causing More Teen...
Increases in depression and suicide appeared among teens in 2012 – the same time smartphone ownership became the norm
Teens Are Choosing Marijuana As Their...
Youth aged 12-21 dramatically increased first-time consumption of marijuana a over alcohol and tobacco.
Why Teens Are Exhausted And Burnt Out
“And we wonder why our young adults are currently being diagnosed with depression and anxiety at staggering and unheard-of rates.”
13 And Depressed: Why Young Teen Girls...
Why girls are more at risk for depression than boys and how to help them cope.
Smartphone Use Tied To Anxiety,...
Overuse of smart phones is just like any other type of substance abuse.
10 Apps Teens Are Using That Parents...
Burn Book — Post anonymous rumors about people through audio messages, tests, and photos
Flashback: 9 Ways Your Kid Will Be Able...
By default, every device that connects kids to the internet also connects kids to porn
On Netflix And Teenagers
On Netflix, a Growing Wave of Shows for and About Teenagers
uK: Children In School Uniforms Arrive...
In a decade London hospitals have gone from treating men in their twenties for knife and gun wounds to children still in their…
Pressures For Perfection Pt1. Suicide
What is known is that smart, successful, gifted teens are committing suicide in increasing numbers
Pressures For Perfection Pt 3
Internet a ‘Lord of the Flies’: Teen suicide rise started after Instagram, Snapchat began
The Scary Truth About What’s Hurting...
The increase in depression and suicide rate correlates to the iPhones being released.
The Tech Industry’s War On Kids
How psychology is being used as a weapon against children
What Teenagers Are Learning From Online...
…porn was their primary source for information about sex. Adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know
Teens Fake Accounts Relieve The Pressure...
How teens use fake Instagram accounts to relieve the pressure of perfection
Sexting increasing among teenagers, new...
Almost 27 percent of teens are receiving sexts and almost 15 percent are sending them
Start Talking To Your Tweens About The...
Teenagers are viewing far more pornography than their parents realize. And the porn they’re watching is much more “hardcore”
UK: Responsible Drinking By Earlier...
When parents supply the drinks, teens are more than twice as likely to binge-drink or show symptoms of alcohol use disorder as…
Pediatricians Call For Depression...
During the teenage years, there’s about a 20% of having depression or anxiety
Many Teens Take Great Care In Posting...
Prticularly girls, may go to great lengths to create a favorable post…even to ask friends to like their posts
What’s Wrong With Dressing Immodestly...
John Piper: “The guy you’re attracting by showing more skin is not the guy you want to marry.”
Snapchat Is Stealing Younger Users Away...
Facebook’s 12 to 17-year-old demographic declined by 9.9 percent in 2017, which amounts to approximately 1.4 million users
Why Gen Z Is Not Prepared To Follow...
New 2018 Barna Group Research Reveals Troubling Trends In Gen Z
The A,B,C’s Of Reaching Generation...
The latest Barna report is out and, ouch, Generation Z is the first truly post Christian generation in American history
Atheism Doubles Among Generation Z
The influence of Christianity in the United States is waning. Gen Z: they are the first truly “post-Christian” generation.
Why Adolescence Is Twice As Long As It...
Adolescence is three times as long as it was in the 19th Century and it’s twice as long as it was in…
A Theology Of Masturbation
Here’s what David writes about the struggle with masturbation. . .
Helping Strangers May Help Teens’...
When teens step out of their comfort zone to help people they don’t know, they feel confident
Stop Overindulging Your Children
“Dealing with Adult Children.” One of the biggest problems with today’s young…
Teenagers, Stop Asking For Nude Photo
That our focus has been so preponderantly on the sending, not requesting, of sexts underscores the exact problem we need to address
Helping Strangers Tied To Higher Self...
Teens who exhibit prosocial behavior — such as helping, comforting and sharing with strangers — have higher self-esteem a year later.
Teen Drug Use Stable, But Marijuana Use...
Nearly 40% of all 12th-graders surveyed had used some sort of illicit drug in the past year
Addicted To Technology
The Sneaky Science Behind Your Kid’s Tech Obsessions
Helping Adolescents Work Through Anxiety
Lately I’ve noticed a growing alarm about anxiety in our culture. It seems to be wreaking havoc in our live
Iceland Knows How To Stop Teen Substance...
State funding for organised sport and other clubs has increased in Iceland to give kids new ways to feel like part of…
Rise In Teen Suicide, Social Media...
An increase in teen suicide rates occurred at the same time social media use surged and a new analysis suggests there may…
The worrisome effects of teenage...
Psychologists are worried about the effects of the smartphone on our kids
10 Reasons Teenagers Are More Anxious...
We’ve created an environment that fosters anxiety rather than resilience.
Ditching Smartphones
‘Dumbphones’ With Basic Functions Appealing To Some
3 Ingredients Catalyzing The Spike In...
And How a Caring Adult Can Actually Help
Drinking And Drugs Down…Fighting...
Big Declines in Substance Abuse, Delinquency Among U.S. Teens
The Rise of Anxiety and Depression in...
We can’t afford the risks associated with these realities, so it’s best to be proactive in helping teens develop a more positive,…
Why American Teenagers Suffering From...
Parents, therapists and schools are struggling to figure out whether helping anxious teenagers means…
Get Inside Your Adolescent’s Brain To...
To effectively counsel teens about dangers associated with substance use, think in developmental terms
New Book By Timothy Eldred Alone Sucks
Tells the story of aloneness and untangles the many lies of life..
Life Norms And The Effects On Faith For...
They want to make the most of their opportunities and see a purpose for existing beyond themselves.
STDs At An All Time High… Again
Last Tuesday the CDC announced “the highest number of these sexually transmitted diseases ever reported”
One In Four girls is depressed at age 14
New research shows a quarter of girls (24%) and one in 10 boys (9%) are depressed at age 14
Teens Moods, But Not Depression, Found...
Friends’ moods can affect an individual suggests that both good and bad moods can be ‘picked up’ from friends, but depression can’t.
Should Your Kid Have Snapchat?
Should Your Kid Have Snapchat? 5 Tips for Parents Raising Teens in the Digital Age
Is Snapchat And Snapmaps Safe?
It’s the number one app kids use, and it’s the number one app parents ask me about
Teens Postponing Traditional Milestones ...
U.S. teenagers are maturing more slowly than past generations, postponing behaviors such as drinking, having sex, going on dates, holding part-time jobs,…
Book: iGen
Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up..Less Happy–and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood–and What That Means for the Rest of Us
Smartphones: The New Teen Mental Health...
The generation that’s grown up with cellphones are less social and more prone to depression. Psychiatrist Jean Twenge
God In The Gap Year
Why do students take a gap year? How do parents know if a gap year is a good decision for their child?
Is Abstinence-Only Education Really...
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen people bashing abstinence programs. Back in 2004 a report prepared for House Democrats shredded abstinence…
Teens and Their Smartphone Habits…...
78.9% of 12- to 17-year-olds in the U.S. will be smartphone users this year, putting them on par with the total…
Have Smartphones Destroyed A Generation...
More comfortable online than out partying…But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis
Earlier Drinking By Teens Linked To...
Teens who start drinking at younger ages are more likely to have their first sexual encounter earlier than others, according to a…
6 Strategies For Engaging The Hurting...
What would you tell Courtney? The question of pain and suffering is one we face a lot in youth ministry
Another Argument For Starting School...
Teens Sleeping in Would Save the U.S. $9 Billion a Year
Flashback: Canadian Study Of Young...
Hemorrhaging Faith: Why and When Canadian Young Adults are Leaving, Staying and Returning to Church
What Do Moms Of Tweens Worry About Most?
These days, it seems that our generation of mothers face more challenges than every generation before us
Snapchat vs Instagram
46% Of Influencers Say They Would Give Up Snapchat If They Were To Abandon One Platform
Flashback: Instagram Stories Hits 200...
Over 200 million people now use Instagram Stories every day to keep up with friends and accounts they love
4 Essential Aspects Of Addressing...
We shouldn’t shy away from teaching what the Bible says about sexuality, but proclaim it with grace and love.
Team, Disqualified For flipping The Bird...
The social media post resulting in the disqualification for the softball 2017 world championship
Teen Summer Bucket List Goes Viral
Go to a party,Have sex, Give two blow jobs, 8 hoe pics for Instagram,Hook up with Jacob again,Get a boob hickey…
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