Youth Culture (October 2018)

The following is a greater list of links to articles and blog posts about Youth Culture for the month of October. Each month, I do my best to send out an email to parents about what is going on in youth culture. In order for the emails to be shorter and more concise, I am adding a more exhaustive list to the blog so that they can be more accessible.

The following are articles that are concerned with the trends and opinions of youth culture at the moment. Not every article is a endorsement of opinion but rather there will be several statements in many that I disagree with. The point for this list is NOT to promote a certain opinion (which other blog posts are for) but rather to give you a feel for what is going on in our children’s lives and their culture. This is to promote further discussion in our church body about how the gospel can change our children and their culture.

• Drugs

  • Teens are smoking, vaping, and eating cannabis

  • Sleepy Teens and the Connection to Drugs, Suicide

• School

  • “My Students Can’t Write To Save Their Lives”

  • What Teachers Want Parents to Know

• Sexual Ethics

  • The FAQS: Christians and the Moral Threat of Sex Robots

  • Peer Pressure and Transgender Teens

  • “The Talk” must be more than once

  • Adolescent Boys Think Sexual Aggression is Flirting

• Technology

  • Can too much screen time “dumb down” your child?

• Video Games

  • Parents’ Ultimate Guide to “E-Sports”

• Youth Culture

  • What Teens Believe About Morality

  • The Fine Line Between Excellence and Obsession

  • 6 High Schoolers on what they’re buying now

  • Media Violence, Family Conflict, Impulsivity linked to Teen Aggression

  • More Needs to be Said About Keeping Teen Drivers Safe

  • Pocket Slot Machines and Teenage Addicts

  • Why Millennials Are Delaying Engagement

  • 3 growing trends for teenagers

  • 1 in 5 College Students are “so stressed that they consider suicide”