Kids and Precocious Love
The word “precocious” comes from the Latin word that is translated as “to ripen before.” In our day and age, the word precocious is used to describe something that develops early or before the usual time. We often pair precocious…
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Parent Prompt: Perseverance
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Download the Parent Prompt here. By: Tim McAlpineCPYU Research Fellow and Director of Faith Formation at…
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3(D) Review: “drop dead” by Olivia Rodrigo
Download the full 3(D) Review here. Background/summary: Debuting at #1 on the Billboard chart upon it’s release on April 17, 2026, this single from 23-year-old singer/songwriter/actress Olivia Rodrigo is off her upcoming studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad For…
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Parent Prompt: Monkey-Barring
CPYU Parent Prompts are a regularly released resource to spark biblically-centered conversations with your kids about the issues they face in today’s youth culture. Download the Parent Prompt here. By: Katie SchneiderCPYU Research Fellow and the Director of Youth Ministry…
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New Dating Slang
I was recently at a social function where I asked a mother how her fifth grade daughter was doing. “Well”, the mom replied, “She’s a little bit sad. She just broke up with her boyfriend.” The fact that we were…
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Digital Violence
Recently, the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence in El Paso, Texas, began raising awareness among their constituency about a new type of dating violence they were seeing among teenagers. It’s being called digital violence, a name that captures the…
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Episode 99: “Challenging Students with the Truth about Sex” with John Kidd
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.RSS FEED – click here.Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast:Kyle Hoffsmith (website)Old North Church (Kyle’s church)John Kidd (Covenant Presbyterian Church)Cheap Sex: The…
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