Youth Culture & Trends
This page is used as a tool to help inform parents with regard to articles and reports that may prove helpful in understanding and parenting teenagers. The following is a list of recent articles, reports, reviews and the like that would be worth reading towards this goal of understanding and parenting your teen:
- APA Survey Raises Concern about Parent Perceptions of Children’s Stress (Nov 2009)
- Tweens Finding Their Way to Facebook (Jan. 3, 2010)
- Driving Distractions: Dangers of In-Car Electronic Devices (Jan. 2010)
- The Myth of the Perfect Parent (Christianity Today – January 2010)
- Battling Your Daughter About What to Wear – Dr. Jim Burns (HOMEWORD) offers some advice (January 2010)
- What to Look For in Teen Depression (January 14, 2010) (Audio interview and Transcript)
- 2 in 5 Teenage Girls Aged 13-16 Want Cosmetic Surgery (January 13, 2010)
- To VH1, Teen Purity is a Short-Lived Marketing Trend (January 19, 2010) … a must read!
- The Courage to Be Bored (February 3, 2010)
- PEW Survey: Teens Love Facebook, Hate Blogging, Are Always Online, and Don’t Use Twitter (February 3, 2010)
- Music and Youth Identity – Media Awareness Network (March 30, 2010)
- Dudes Can Pay Hot Girls to Play Online Video Games With them (March 23, 2010)
- Give Sons “Porno Pep Talk” (Chicago Sun Times, March 18, 2010)
- Social Sites Lure Users Around the Clock & Check Status Updates in Bed (March 22, 2010)
Simply Youth Culture Newsletter
(Jan/Feb 2010) – Center for Parent/Teen Understanding (www.cpyu.org)