Train Up A Child
Earlier this summer I was mowing our grass when all of a sudden I heard the sound of some frantic squawking. I noticed that the panicked chorus of noise was coming from a pair of adult robins who were close…
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Writing on Screens vs. Paper
Over the course of the last twenty years, I’ve been especially interested in tracking with youth culture trends that are related to the emergence of a host of new technologies and technological tools. A new study of Japanese college students…
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Teens and the Search for Identity
The stereotype of teenagers back in the hippie days of the 1960s remembers kids as oftentimes talking about trying to “find myself.” While today’s teens rarely if ever hitchhike to California as part of that quest, the single most important…
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Parenting and the Frontal Lobe
It’s easy to be fooled by appearances. One way in which parents can be easily fooled is by the appearance of a child who has recently passed through puberty. It sure does happen fast, doesn’t it? And on the day…
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Episode 133: “Anxiety, Stress, and Fostering Resilience” with Marv Penner
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Marv Penner The Coalition for Youth Ministry Excellence Episode 97: “Stop…
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Identity and the Peer Group
In her book Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain, Sarah Jayne Blakemore reminds us that for teenagers, what she calls the social self becomes central. A teen’s social self is all about expressing who you and how…
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