The Borg Challenge
Once again, I want to warn you about a dangerous party trend that’s gone viral and being promoted on TikTok. Known as the Borg challenge or drinking trend, the online videos quickly garnered over eighty-two million views. The word Borg…
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Trend Alert: Social Media Depression
In years past, teenagers who felt horribly insecure during their hours spent navigating the hallways of the middle and high school, were usually able to find some reprieve in the safe confines of their home. But with teens now connected…
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A Parents’ Primer on Social Networking
Social networking is the number one online activity for teenagers. This is not at all surprising as emerging technologies allow developing adolescents increased opportunity to connect with friends at a time in life when they are spreading their wings in…
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Social Media Dangers
Neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina have been working to find an answer to a question many of us have about the relationship between our kids and their use of social media. That question is this: what is social…
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What Social Media Reveals of our Hearts
I recently read a thought-provoking quote from the eighteenth century writer Samuel Johnson. Johnson wrote, “Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk, your mind is on parade.” Immediately after reading these words I thought about what Jesus…
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