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Lunchables Pulled From Schools Tested...
Consumer Reports flagged high levels of sodium and lead—both harmful to kids’ developing brains. Junk food has no place in schools.
Marijuana Is Too Strong Now…Not Your...
Teens, experiencing short- and long-term “marijuana-induced psychosis,” with consequences including hospitalizations
A Parent’s Watchful Eye Keeps Kids...
The fear of being caught reduced substance use by about 40% among a group of 11- to 15-year-olds
Parenting: Who’s In Charge?
Gentle, non-judgmental parenting is not good parenting. Have you read Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6?
Delta-8, an unregulated form of THC
Is popular among high school students
Study: Contributing Factors In Helping...
Positive Relationships W/ Parents, Adults During Childhood Helps Better Mental Health
Suicide’s Are Up, Believer’s Are To...
Men older than 75 saw their rate rise to the highest of any age group, to 43.7 per 100,000. Overall, men comprise…
Book: The Anxious Generation
How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Way Forward For An Anxious Generation
Haidt and Moore discuss the alarming rates of anxiety and depression among children and adolescents
School COVID Closures‘ Most Damaging.....
Despite its concern over the closures’ harm to kids, New York Times in 2020 advocated for school closures despite the risks
The Collapse Of Tavistock’s Gender...
Book…Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture...
….and What We Can Do About It. To have intrinsic self-worth not contingent upon external achievements
Is This What Happen To One Of My...
The gun crews were being hurt by their own weapons. Marines received diagnoses of traumatic brain injuries
Planned Parenthood Preying Upon Confused...
Planned Parenthood Turns Its Attention to Confused Adolescents Who Think They’re Trans
Anxiety: Finding The Better Story
A 31-day Devotional for Teenagers by Liz Edrington
Teen Brains With Depression Linked To...
Depressed adolescents also recalled more negative than positive feedback words, thus suggesting that parental criticism more strongly affected these individuals than healthy…
UK: 34% Of Kids Placed On Puberty...
The mental health of 34 per cent of children placed on puberty-blocking drugs “reliably deteriorated”
Drug Crisis In Schools, As More Teens...
Fentanyl was involved in the vast majority of all teen overdose deaths – 84% – in 2021, and the problem has been…
Book: Loving God’s Children..The...
What the Catholic Church teaches about the human person and why modern culture’s embrace of “gender ideology” is not only wrong but…
15% Of Children Received Mental Health...
The researchers found that children aged 12 to 17 years were more likely to have received any mental health treatment (including prescription…
Helping Those Experiencing Gender...
Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast
Resources For Navigating LGBTQ Issues...
Parent & Pastor resource guide on transgender issues
Transgender Toddlers Treated At Duke,...
Pass the Youth Protection Act immediately
The Tragedy Of Black Youth Suicide
Black children ages 5 to 12 are twice as likely to die by suicide as their White peers, and Black teen suicides…
Insights On Brain Development Sequence...
This work lays the foundation for understanding how the environment shapes neurodevelopmental trajectories even through the teenage years
10 Ways Social Media Affects Teens’...
For you busy parents, caregivers and educators out there, we’ve distilled it down to 10 useful takeaways
Record One In FOUR HS Students Say They...
These students are more likely to attempt suicide and be victims of abuse
Study: Teens And Social Media
Pew Research Center asking teens – and their parents – about their experiences with and views toward social media
Exposing The Gender Lie’ e-book...
The number of minors in America receiving a diagnosis of gender dysphoria tripled from 2017 to 2021, with more than forty-two thousand…
Book: Gender Madness….& How To...
One Man’s Devastating Struggle with Woke Ideology and His Battle to Protect Children
Kids Hospitalized In Mental Health...
Outpatient help for kids with mental health issues is hard to come by in much of the U.S. As a result, hospitalizations are…
Transgender Youth @Highest Risk For...
A 2022 study found that youth who identify as transgender are at the highest risk of “violent radicalization.”
TikTok Threatens America’s Social...
Almost 70% of American teenagers use TikTok. Though the content teenagers scroll through masquerades as harmless short videos, many of the videos…
75% Of Americans 17-24 Aren’t Fit...
Young Americans are either too obese, too sick, or too criminal to serve in the military
Teen Girls Seeing ‘Dramatic’...
“The levels of poor mental health and suicidal thoughts and behaviors recorded by teenage girls are now higher than we have ever…
Saving Trans Kids?
What’s happening to children is morally and medically appallin
Surgeon General: 13-Yr-Olds Too Young...
Murthy told CNN on Sunday that he believes being on social media “does a disservice” to kids early in their teen years
New Plan To Save The Children From...
Trump: the “gender confusion” pushed on our nation’s youth is a form of child abuse
Parents Rank Youth Mental Health as Top...
An analysis of 3,757 U.S. parents with children under the age of 18 found that roughly 40 percent say they are “extremely…
Court Strikes Down Transgender Mandate
The mandate forces doctors and hospitals to perform gender-transition procedures on their patients even if this violates their conscience and best medical…
Children On Trans Hormones ‘Probably...
American Academy of Pediatrics executive admits children on trans hormones ‘probably will be infertile
As Alcohol Abuse Declines Among Teens,...
Marijuana abuse among 6- to 18-year-olds has increased 245% since 2000, while child alcohol abuse has steadily declined over those years
Vaping Can Ruin Your Smile, Speed Up...
After inhaling, the sticky and sugary content of the vaping liquid sticks to the teeth — causing all the damage
Teenage Brains: How It Works & Why...
But understanding how teenagers see the world or what makes them behave in a certain way is important
teens 13 calling Quitline for help with...
One 15-year-old caller said 80% of their friends vape and they feel strongly addicted, they vape upon waking and pick it up…
Study: Face Masks Contain A Carcinogen...
70% of the examined face masks contained TiO2 in quantities ranging from 100 to 2000 mg kg−12
Gen Z Mental Health Crisis: How Pastors...
Anyone who works with Gen Z is facing a mental health crisis in this generation at levels they’ve never seen before
NIH: Children Who Think They’re...
New guidelines say it can have significant effects it on a child’s psychology
Flashback: Parents’ Religious Beliefs...
It’s not that religious people don’t have suicidal thoughts or take their own lives — after all, even ministers sometimes die by…
San Diego ER Seeing Up To 37 Marijuana...
“What’s being consumed in these concentrates is devastating for their mental health.”
The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our...
Documentary on young women who went through medical gender transition, with cross-sex hormones and surgeries, and regret it
Dr. Prescribes Testosterone Online So...
A gender-affirming doctor who works for Plume, an online telehealth service that offers gender-affirming hormone therapy through a cell phone app, believes…
CDC Considering Adding COVID Vaccine To...
Tucker Carlson provides an update on the possibility the CDC will include the COVID-19 vaccine on the childhood immunization schedule on ‘Tucker…
Gender Clinic Founder Who Supports...
Dr. Stephen Levine, a clinical psychiatrist who founded an Ohio gender clinic in 1974, is concerned about hormones being used to treat…
‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Will Grow To...
Indeed, if anything, the report underplays the ghoulish revenue potential for these procedures, since it fails to mention the complications
Dr’s To Screen EVERY Child Over 8 For...
This might lead to dependency on highly addictive drugs
More Studies Confirm the COVID Jab Does...
Cardiologist calls for the immediate suspension of all COVID shots as real-world data show they cause more harm than good
CDC: 25% Who Received Covid-19...
25% Of People Who Received Covid-19 Vaccination Missed Work Or Reported A “Serious Event” Affecting Their Normal Life Functions, According To CDC…
DOJ To Investigate Individuals Against...
Last the National School Boards Association’s letter to the DOJ asking them to investigate parents who were opposed to critical race theory
Trans Doctors Preyed Upon The Most...
There’s how many mental health disorders that make you hate your body, and the solution isn’t to change your body, it’s to…
Planned Parenthood Advertises Puberty...
Aimed at minors, incorrectly markets puberty-blocking drugs as safe substances that can be used “like a stop sign” to halt puberty
Gays Against Groomers Speak Out…
Dogs should be groomed not kids! Transgender grooming in schools
Ministering To Anxious Students In An...
The promise of Heaven reminds us that our suffering is not to last forever
Middle School Student Brings Fentanyl To...
Staff Member Who Searched Him Overdosed From Exposure
Online Self-Harm & Suicide...
Online Communities of Adolescents and Young Adults Celebrating, Glorifying, and Encouraging Self-Harm and Suicide are Growing Rapidly on Twitter
Kids Who Eat Healthy Breakfasts Have...
Skipping Breakfast May Increase Chance of Kids and Teens Developing Psychosocial Health Problems
DEA Warns Of Brightly-Colored Fentanyl...
stop the trafficking of rainbow fentanyl and defeat the Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for the vast majority of the fentanyl…
More People Smoke Marijuana Than...
16% of Americans in a new Gallup poll reported smoking marijuana, up from 12 percent last year and more than double the…
UK: Clinic Prescribed Puberty Blockers...
In the wake of the National Health Service (NHS) announcing that it would be shutting the controversial Tavistock gender clinic for endangering…
Mindfulness Training Doesn’t Boost...
Mindfulness training doesn’t appear to provide the benefits to teens many schools were hoping for when it comes to mental health, a…
Anxiety Is More Likely To Be Passed From...
Research now suggests that anxiety disorders are passed down from mother to daughter and that having a father without anxiety protects sons…
Great Article From A Former ‘Trans Kid...
California Weighs Gender-Transition Bill for Youths Beyond Its Borders
Biden Admin Directing Teen Moms To...
Promoting a website that tells expecting mothers where to get an abortion and how to circumvent parental notification laws where such laws…
Experts Question CDC Approval Of Under-5...
Pfizer study used 3 children. There are no studies on children showing a reduction in hospitalization or death with taking a booster
When States Legalize Pot, More Teens...
Pot use among U.S. minors increases when states legalize recreational cannabis for adults, according to a new study
Kids In Team Sports Had Less Anxiety,...
But children who participated only in individual sports had worse mental health outcomes compared to those who don’t play any sports
DeSantis To Ban Transgender Surgery And...
The scientific evidence supporting these complex medical interventions is extraordinarily weak
“Inner Pandemic,” Mental Health In...
“They have too much screen time, they’re not sleeping, on phones all the time,”
Ways To Care For Teenagers With…....
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34
Ways To Care For Teenagers Who Are...
In 2020, it was estimated that 4.1 million adolescents between 12-17 had at least one major depressive episode
Ways To Care For Teenagers Who Are...
In 2021, the CDC officially declared a National Emergency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Adventurous Play Outdoors Leads To...
Excitement and exploration help kids avoid anxiety, according to researchers
Teen Charged In Fentanyl Deaths Of...
Texas Legislature that allows us to charge those who provide illegal narcotics that cause the death of our citizens
Care For Teenagers With…. Feeding And...
4 Practical Ways to Support a Student with an Eating Disorder
Mysterious Hepatitis Outbreaks Among...
The children are between the ages of 1 month to 16 years old
Why American Teens Are So Sad
Young people have 24/7 access to sites that are constantly telling them they should be depressed about it
Study: Public School Employees Were ...
Government Accountability Office. Sexual abuse by school personnel raises particular concerns because of the trust placed in schools
Prevent Sexual Abuse By School…
Parental Expectations And Perfectionism...
Perfectionism contributes to many psychological conditions, including depression, anxiety, self-harm and eating disorders
US Sexually Transmitted Infections...
“Some racial and ethnic minority groups continue to experience higher rates of STDs,” and half of new infections are among 15- to…
Mental Health And Family
As youth workers, I think we do a good job of talking about mental health and teens, although there are always ways…
Teens Overdose On Meds Prescribed For...
Doctors and parents need to be careful about prescribing and having their kids take these drugs
Stopped Early, Teen Drug Abuse Won’t...
However, high pot use at age 30 was strongly associated with high rates of poor life success
Perhaps The Biggest Victims Of The...
Fauci amendment would mean no more health ‘dictator in chief’
The Next Teen Epidemic
The pandemic’s mental health impact on teens is raising alarm, but there are answers
Mom Pays Teen $1,800 To Stay Off Social...
“On the whole, I would say totally worth it,” he said. “I mean, I would do it again.”
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