Resource Type: Text

Resource Review: Media Guide for Students

Rachel Blom blogs a review of CPYU’s “How to Use Your Head to Guard Your Heart: A 3(D) Guide to Making Responsible Media Choices” on the DownloadYouthMinistry website. Read the review here.

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 draws a variety of responses. That’s what happens when you…
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How Sitcoms Impact Teen Values

This article by Ron Powell on Youth Ministry Unleashed discusses streaming sitcoms and teen values. A couple of blog posts from CPYU President Walt Mueller are quoted. Read the article here.

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, and with a sunny day and friends beckoning, it was…
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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 word. Believe it or not, its also a question today’s…
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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 for a national publication. CPYU has reprinted  the article in…
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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 a student of contemporary youth culture, I must. I was…
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