Resource Type: Text

Fostering a Sense of Self in a “Skin-Deep” Culture

September 24, 2014

– 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 forever changed the nature of adolescent culture in North America.…
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BB’s, Bullets, and Innocence Lost

August 24, 2014

– 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 woods knowing that it was time to “graduate” to a…
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Commodified Kids

August 24, 2014

– 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 die at 15.” Diderot was clarifying his feelings on what…
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Safe & Sound

August 24, 2014

– 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 packed house of 18,000, mostly teenage fans. The lead singer’s…
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Ecstatic Over Ecstasy

August 24, 2014

– 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 “intense bliss,” or “powerful emotion that lifts one out of…
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