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Age Aspiration

Teens Lying About Age Online Face Unique Danger, Expert Says

Posted 9.17.21 in Research and News

Teens and Age Aspiration

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Posted 4.17.20 in Youth Culture Today Radio Show

Teens and Age Aspiration

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Posted 9.04.19 in Youth Culture Today Radio Show

Worshipping Youthfulness

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Posted 7.23.19 in Youth Culture Today Radio Show

Tinder Dating Among Teens: When Swipe-Right Culture Goes To High School

Posted 5.17.19 in Research and News

Too Fast Too Soon

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Posted 10.01.18 in Youth Culture Today Radio Show

The Adult Bodies Playing Teens On TV

Posted 12.14.17 in Research and News

Why Adult Women—And Women’s Media—Should Reconsider Their Cultural Infatuation With Teenage Girls

Posted 6.12.17 in Research and News

ABCD: Milwaukee Takes Park in Landmark Study on Adolescent Brain Development

Posted 1.18.17 in Research and News

Teens These Days

Posted 12.01.16 in Research and News

Jaded Children, Callow Adults

Posted 5.20.15 in Research and News

Social Media and Parental Lies

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Posted 1.29.15 in Youth Culture Today Radio Show

How Young is Too Young for Digital Technology and Social Media?

A blog post from Fuller Youth Institute (that mentions CPYU’s Digital Kids Initiative “Family Digital Covenant of Conduct” ) discusses the appropriate age children and teens should use digital technology. Read the blog post here.
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Posted 7.17.14 in CPYU on the Web

How Young is Too Young for Digital Technology and Social Media?

Posted 7.17.14 in Research and News

Cool at 13, Adrift at 23

Posted 7.11.14 in Research and News

Social Media and Parental Lies

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Posted 6.05.14 in Youth Culture Today Radio Show

Making the Young Old Before their Time

 – by Paul Robertson ©2001, The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding Being a school guidance counselor can be quite an adventure these days. In the span of a few weeks, a guidance counselor friend of mine dealt with the following issues – one girl drunk in the washroom; three boys suspended for setting a fire in...
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