How to Make a Pop Star
– by Walt Mueller © 2006, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding I’ve been showing it to people since I first spotted it. It’s a photo that reveals many truths and... more »
The Jet Set
– by Tom Piotrowski 2000, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding In my younger years, one of the last cartoons to come on Saturday morning was the Jetsons. Just before noon,... more »
Teens and Oral Sex
– by Walt Mueller 2001 The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding What’s sex? – that’s the question curious young children often ask their parents when they first hear the little three letter... more »
What You Need to Know About “Scarfing”
– by Walt Mueller ©1998, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding editor’s note: the following is a condensed and revised version of an informational article written by CPYU President Walt Mueller... more »
My Trip Through Seventeen
-By Paul Robertson ©2003, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding As the father of four boys, reading teen girl magazines was never really high on my list of priorities. But as... more »
Eminem – Meet the Real Slim Shady
– by Walt Mueller ©2000, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding He’s been described as controversial, demented, vulgar, violently warped and offensive. You won’t see him hanging around the schoolyard or... more »
Teens & Drugs – The Warning Signs
– by Walt Mueller ©1998, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding It’s a school district proud of its quiet neighborhoods, good families, high academic standards, and bright students. A $40,000 student... more »
Pink – Reflecting the Changing Colors of Youth Culture
– by Walt Mueller ©2002, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding It’s a recipe for mainstream pop music success that’s been used over and over again: Take one ambitious and curvaceous... more »
Are We Salt & Light?
– by Walt Mueller 2001, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding Had you been alive while Jesus Christ was walking this earth, and had you been monitoring his journeys though the... more »
What’s TV Teaching us About Dads?
– by Tom Piotrowski ©1999, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding At the end of the day, I love climbing the stairs to the room of my six- and eight-year-old sons... more »
Getting Huffy: The Epidemic of Inhalant Abuse
1999, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding Shockwaves rippled through the Philadelphia area last January when five teen-age girls were killed when their car crashed into a utility pole while returning... more »
Fostering a Sense of Self in a “Skin-Deep” Culture
– by Paul Robertson 1999, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding On March 20, 1967, a 17-year-old girl named Lesley Hornby from London, England, stepped off a plane in Chicago and... more »
BB’s, Bullets, and Innocence Lost
– by Walt Mueller ©1999, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding Paper bulls’-eyes and tin cans were no longer satisfying. Without really discussing it, Todd and I silently headed to the... more »
Commodified Kids
– by Paul Robertson ©2003, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding In October 1759, famed French philosopher Denis Diderot wrote to his young friend Sophie Volland the poignant words, “you all... more »
Safe & Sound
– By Tom Piotrowski ©2003, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding Various members of the band Good Charlotte are jumping around the stage of the Philadelphia Spectrum in front of a... more »
Ecstatic Over Ecstasy
– by Walt Mueller ©2001, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding Look up the word “ecstasy” in the dictionary and you’ll find that it’s “a state of overwhelming rapturous delight” and... more »
Hearing the Cry for Compassion
– by Walt Mueller ©1999, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding Editors Note: This article was written two-weeks before the shootings in Littleton, Colorado. Keep those events and the role played... more »
Winners or Losers?
– by Walt Mueller ©1997, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding I learned some amazing lessons about life when I was a starting forward on the worst basketball team in... more »