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Posted on: 04/7/14 3:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee
Christian Comedian Tim Hawkins kills me!
I first heard him at an event we spoke at together. He had the crowd rolling on the floor! Tim’s really good at helping us laugh at ourselves. Hilarious.
In December he put out a greatest hits DVD… the first 6 minutes are on YouTube. I couldn’t resist sharing this with you.
(Click here for the video if you can’t see it embedded)
He has the DVD available on his site.
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Posted on: 04/4/14 3:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee
Each day in my blog this week I have given you a little somethin’ you can use to provoke meaningful conversations with young people. (Click here for Monday’s, Tuesday’s, Wednesday’s, or Thursday’s.) My brand new book, Get Your Teenager Talking has 180 conversation springboards that “get teenagers talking”… I thought I’d share some with you. Here’s one more:
Conversation Springboard No. 5:
Which kids are happier: those who eat whatever they want, drink alcohol, and smoke, or those who eat healthy foods and live a healthier lifestyle?
A recent study suggests an unhealthy lifestyle is linked to unhappiness. In fact, in their analysis of five thousand young people between the ages of ten and fifteen, researchers discovered Continue reading “5 Days of Get Your Teenager Talking- DAY 5”
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Posted on: 04/3/14 3:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee
Each day in my blog this week I’m going to give you a little somethin’ you can use to provoke meaningful conversations with young people. (Click here for Monday’s, Tuesday’s, or Wednesday’s.) My brand new book, Get Your Teenager Talking has 180 conversation springboards that “get teenagers talking”… I thought I’d share some with you. Here’s another one:
Conversation Springboard No. 4:
What makes someone popular at your school? Continue reading “5 Days of Get Your Teenager Talking- DAY 4”
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Posted on: 04/2/14 3:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee
Whenever I bring up the events at Columbine, young people become immediately engaged.
Each day in my blog this week I’ve been giving you a little somethin’ you can use to provoke meaningful conversations with young people. (Already posted two- click here for Monday’s or Tuesday’s.) My brand new book, Get Your Teenager Talking has 180 conversation springboards that “get teenagers talking”… I thought I’d share some with you. I’m giving you one each day:
Conversation Springboard No. 3:
A videotape was discovered of the two Columbine killers—the two high school boys in Colorado who killed thirteen people on April 19, 1999. The two angry boys turned on the camera a month before their shooting spree and started bragging about their plans to kill everyone and how their parents didn’t have a clue Continue reading “5 Days of Get Your Teenager Talking- DAY 3”
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Posted on: 04/1/14 3:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee
Each day in my blog this week I’m giving you a little somethin’ you can use to provoke meaningful conversations with young people. (Click here for yesterday’s.) My brand new book, Get Your Teenager Talking has 180 conversation springboards that “get teenagers talking”… I thought I’d share some with you. I’ll give you one each day:
Conversation Springboard No. 2:
If the power went out in our city for a day (and you forgot to charge your battery-operated devices), what would you do? Continue reading “5 Days of Get Your Teenager Talking- DAY 2”
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Posted on: 03/31/14 3:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee
Each day in my blog this week I’m going to give you a little somethin’ you can use to provoke meaningful conversations with young people. My brand new book, Get Your Teenager Talking has 180 conversation springboards that “get teenagers talking”… I thought I’d share some with you. I’ll give you one each day this week:
Conversation Springboard No. 1:
A nationwide survey asked people about the appropriate use of cell phones in social settings such as mealtimes, meetings, and in classrooms. The answers varied considerably by the respondent’s age. The younger the person, the more they perceived texting as permissible in social settings. For example Continue reading “5 Days of Get Your Teenager Talking- DAY 1”
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Posted on: 03/26/14 4:26 PM | by Jonathan McKee
THE WORLD VISION SAME SEX DECISIONS AND THE REPERCUSSIONS
Interesting… I was halfway through writing this blog Wednesday and everything flipped on its head. If you missed the scoop, here’s the skinny:
– A few days ago international world relief organization World Vision decided to “hire gay Christians in same sex marriages.”
– In response, evangelical Christians began pulling their support for World Vision, which, according to some sources with contacts at World Vision, resulted in thousands of children losing their sponsorships.
– Then late Wednesday, March 26th, World Vision reversed its decision, posting, “We failed to be consistent with World Vision U.S.’s commitment to the traditional understanding of Biblical marriage and our own statement of faith.”
It’s sad to see how these events are polarizing people. I have just two things to say Continue reading “Shame on us”
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Posted on: 03/24/14 3:45 AM | by Jonathan McKee
“Should I allow my 13-year-old to use Twitter?”
It happens after every parent workshop I teach. Parents line up with specific questions.
“Is Instagram bad?
Should I let my teenager have her phone in her room at night?
“Should I be worried if I found my teenager using Omegle?”
“All my daughter’s friends are on Ask.fm and she wants to be too. Should I let her?”
(By the way, I know I’ll get comments asking, so my answers to those questions would be: no, no, yes, and no. I let my own teenage daughters have multiple social networking sites, but Omegle and Ask.fm both are venues where anonymous people can chat with little to no accountability, and that’s never a good situation. Here’s an article with more specific details about individual apps.)
The questions always vary, but they all root from the same question:
“Is social media safe?”
This is a pretty broad question. It’s like asking Continue reading “Keeping Social Media Safe”
Posted on: 03/19/14 3:36 AM | by Jonathan McKee
This is just too good for me to mess up with words. My friends over at Youth Culture Report tweeted me this. It’s three grandmas reading and commenting on the lyrics of Beyonce’s current hit song, Drunk In Love.
Classic!
(Warning… these grandmas got mouths on them)
(Click Here if you don’t see the embedded video)
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Posted on: 03/17/14 3:30 AM | by Jonathan McKee
In just a few weeks you’ll see two brand new books from me on the shelves: Get Your Teenagers Talking, and The Guys Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. (THE GUY’S GUIDE is now available on Kindle)
Would you like to review one of these titles and get a free signed copy? If you would… keep reading.
Here’s the skinny. Both of these titles are hitting the shelves in April (although we are offering pre-orders of each on our site right now, and I’m signing all pre-orders). In order to boost Amazon sales, we need readers to post Amazon reviews. Here’s how this works Continue reading “Want to review either of Jonathan’s two brand new books?”
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