Tempering Appearance Pressure
Our children need parents who will openly explain and discuss what is happening to their bodies. Most of these changes occur during the middle school years, when group acceptance is of the utmost importance and when peers – because of…
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Episode 136: “A Student’s Guide to Navigating Culture”
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: A Student’s Guide to Navigating Culture by Walt Mueller Kevin Yi…
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Episode 135: “A Look Back at Episode 83 – Understanding Transgender in a Changing Culture”
Welcome to Youth Culture Matters, a podcast from the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding. We’ve taken a short break from recording new episodes, so today we want to go back into our archives to highlight a timely conversation. Today’s episode is a…
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Ellen Page Transgender
Way back in 2007 I remember watching the film Juno, a coming of age comedy and drama about a sixteen year old high school student who finds herself pregnant. The star of the movie was Ellen Page, who at the…
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Episode 134: “Integration of Faith and Sport” with Tim Sceggel
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: Dr. Tim Sceggel @SceggelSpeaks (Dr. Tim Sceggel on Twitter) Covenant College…
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Kids TV and Transgender
Just a little over a year ago, the Nickelodean network premiered a kids show called Danger Force, which is a spinoff of the older Henry Danger kids series. Danger Force follows the adventures of some young super-heroes in training. The…
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Teen Styles and Morality
When generational styles collide, we tend to turn personal taste and style issues into moral issues in an effort to keep our kids from altering their appearance in a way that we either find embarrassing or wrong. Like it or…
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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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