Pursuing YouTube Celebrity
A few years ago I was speaking about social media to a group of parents and teens at a church. Afterwards, a mom and dad pushed their 14-year-old boy in front of me and told him, “Go ahead, tell Mr.…
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Social Media and Idealizing Self
Is what you see posted on social media an accurate and honest portrayal of reality? When you look at the social media accounts of other families and other people’s kids are left feeling that your family is somehow an inadequate…
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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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