Youth Culture Today with Walt Mueller

What is your greatest desire for your children? Most parents summarize their desire with the word “success.” But what is success? For many, it’s a secure job, the accumulation of things, and personal…

With anxiety off the charts as a growing epidemic among children and teens, I want to offer a strategy you can employ to prevent anxiety in the kids you know and love. Perhaps the most effective stra…

Everyone who has ever walked the face of the earth has been made by God for a relationship with God. Because our rebellion and sin has severed that relationship, there remains a deep yearning inside …

At creation, God instituted the family to be the place where all human beings are born, nurtured, loved, and brought to physical, emotional, and spiritual maturity. In God’s good order and design, ch…

Your children and teens are most likely not going to like what I have to share with you today. It has to do with the proper age to put a smartphone in a child’s hands. Chances are, if your child or t…

It’s very easy to get swept up into the spirit of the times. Because we live in the midst of culture, we can easily live into the values of that culture without taking the time to consider whether th…

Today, I want to share some words from Rick Reed in his Salvo Magazine article on the word Pride. Reed writes, “Until 1970, the former understanding of pride as one of the seven deadly sins was regar…

It is a bad thing when we get swept up in the current of what the Apostle Paul calls “the course of this world”, leaving our minds and the ability to discern between truth and lies at the door. Rathe…

Why is it that so many of us feel like failures when we or our children make a mistake? My guess is that we are disappointed because we expect ourselves and our kids to be perfect – a very unrealisti…

Parents, what sexual script are your kids following as they learn how to live out matters of sex and gender? You see, whoever speaks first to a child on these matters sets the bar for truth. When we …

Elle Mills is a twenty-four year old who became a YouTube celebrity when she was only twelve-years-old. Over time, she had one-point-seven-million subscribers, one-point-eight-million total followers…

The Bible tells us about the way things in our world should be. As Christian parents raising teens trying to find their way through a world that’s broken and terribly mixed-up, we are given a respons…

I love digging deep into church history to uncover parenting advice that has not only stood the test of time, but which might be even more necessary and true than it was when it was first given. I re…

I recently read about a group that is working to address a growing issue facing families and schools. The organization is called the School Avoidance Alliance and it exists to address the issue of sc…

The late Dr. Paul Tournier, known by many as the twentieth century’s most famous Christian physician, wrote a book back in 1954 titled “The Meaning Of Persons” that offers some very helpful insights …

Recently, there’s been a lot of conversation centered around the CDC’s latest edition of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The conversations are centered focused on of the findings related to teenagers…

Over the years you’ve heard me from time to time mention self-harm and its prevalence among a growing number of children and teens. The kinds of self-harm we are talking about here includes things li…

If you’re familiar with the growing world of Artificial intelligence, or AI, you have probably hear about chatGPT. This chatbot allows users to ask questions, and then get answers in a matter of seco…

Our friends at protect young minds dot org are advising parents about five sneaky locations where pornography finds kids. Parents, be aware of these five locations. First, kids are accessing pornogra…

In a recent blog post for Salvo magazine, Robin Phillips asserts that education is in crisis, and one of the causes seems to be ChatGPT. He says that the problem is quite simple: our kids and our edu…