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Posted on: 05/29/14 5:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee
As you know, I like to keep my thumb on the pulse of youth culture. (Funny analogy. Does anyone really take someone’s pulse with a thumb?) This means hanging out with teenagers, but also keeping my eyes on research about youth culture and technology.
Currently there are three reports I am eagerly awaiting because of what they tell us about teens and tweens today Continue reading “3 Studies I Eagerly Await”
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Posted on: 05/27/14 5:00 AM | by Jonathan McKee
For the last few months I’ve been writing a book to parents encouraging and equipping them to have candid conversations with their kids about sex. In a world so full of explicit lies, today’s kids need parents who aren’t afraid to tell the explicit truth. This book will help parents create a climate of calm, continual conversations about sex.
But I need your help with chapter 12. I’m titling it, Tough Questions, and I want to equip parents with answers to some of the tough questions they will encounter from today’s young people about sex.
So don’t hold back! Hit me with the most common, and even the craziest questions you have heard from today’s young people. I’m writing the chapter this week!
Post the Q’s in my comments, and if I use your question Continue reading “Gimme Your Sex Questions”
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Posted on: 05/19/14 5:00 AM | by Jonathan McKee
On Saturday I showed parents a glimpse into the world of today’s youth culture… and on Sunday a mom pulled me aside. “I have to tell you a story.”
It’s funny, but whenever I spend a weekend teaching parents at a church, the same thing happens. As I show parents samples of pop culture media and discuss the attitudes and trends prominent in the lives of young people today, parents always seem to think, “This is interesting, but I’m glad my kids don’t do these things.”
Then in the next week they discover, “My kids do these things!”
It happened again yesterday Continue reading “Not My Kid”
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Posted on: 05/13/14 5:00 AM | by Jonathan McKee
I’m working on a brand new Parenting Help article that will be featured on the front page of TheSource4Parents.com next week. I thought I’d give you, my blog subscribers, a first peek at it and throw me some feedback.
Which do you think is a more effective way to teach today’s young people how to make good decisions?
“You should do this.”
or…
“What do you think you should do?”
It’s funny how often parents, mentors, and youth pastors end up becoming the voice of “you should” or “you should not” in a young person’s life Continue reading “Moving from YOU SHOULD to SHOULD YOU?”
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Posted on: 05/6/14 3:45 AM | by Jonathan McKee
The following is an excerpt from my new book, The Guy’s Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. This is just one of the 101 pieces of advice I offer to young guys in that book.
In the summer of 2013, Miley Cyrus came out with a song with the following lyrics:
It’s our party we can do what we want
It’s our party we can say what we want
It’s our party we can love who we want
Repeated throughout the chorus is the line:
Doing whatever we want
Wouldn’t that be nice? I guess it’s possible . . . as long as Continue reading “The Lonely Road of Doing Whatever You Want”
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