Girls, Pictures, and Filters
Like you, I grew up in a world without smartphones. Compared to life for our kids in today’s world, our ability to take photographs was minimal. Cameras with film kept us from seeing what our photos looked like until the…
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Trend Alert: TikTok Shoplifting
If you’re looking for evidence of the fact that people can justify anything, you need to look no further than a teen trend that has kids using TikTok to teach each other how to shoplift. Download the CPYU Trend Alert…
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5 Youth Culture Trends
U.S. News and World Report recently ran a piece entitled “Five Concerning Trends That Affect The Health of the iGeneration.” Each the of the five trends warrant our attention and our response. First, there’s the reality of our kids spending…
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Instagram and Body Image
It’s not at all surprising that researchers have found a link between heavy use of the social media platform Instagram, and anxiety about one’s body image. The study, published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture, surveyed one hundred…
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