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i’m experiencing a handful of turns in my thinking about youth ministry these days. most of them are not even close to fully fleshed out. i often see them pop up when i’m doing a youth ministry seminar, saying something i’ve said before, and realizing i don’t fully agree with it anymore. this happened to [...]
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adam mclane stirred some interesting discussion with his blog post on the ys blog the other day, called “is adolescence a myth?” he highlights the perspective of robert epstein, who has been, for a few years, making the case that adolescence is not real (or, at least it wasn’t, until we created it). a bit [...]
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fascinating post over on ypulse the other day, culled from an mtv sticky report called youthtopia (a study of hopes and dreams). the study describes itself this way: “In the first-ever effort to understand the values, hopes and dreams of young people in Europe, MTV asked over 7,000 youths to imagine their ideal world and [...]
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my friend bob carlton sends me lots of really helpful links to check out on the ‘net. i put most of them into a temporary folder until i have a chance to catch up on them. these links are all from a wad i just got caught up on. really interesting stuff for youth workers [...]
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this is a great article on a variety of myths about adolescence, including: – the myth that teenagers are more sexually active than ever, and at younger ages – the myth that all teenagers are more highly stressed by their schedules than ever – the myth that boys are falling behind in school it focuses [...]
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i write an every-other-issue column on middle school ministry for youthworker journal. the new one just came out, and is on their website also: here. this one is about the difference between 6th graders and 8th graders, and how it can feel like whiplash to say goodbye to graduating 8th graders and welcome in the [...]
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professor darwin glassford posted a provocative question on the youth ministry 3.0 facebook group: I just finished reading YM 3.0, overall I found it a delightful experience. After reflecting on it, I am left with nagging sense that no matter how well we understand the life issues and culture we will still be frustrated. In [...]
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ypulse has an interesting series of posts collecting info from their youth advisory board on their actual use of social media and other online stuff: MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, blogging, streaming TV and movies, downloading music. for each of these categories, a few of the advisory team tell the “last five things” they did. it’s a [...]
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lots of adolescent specialists have been talking and writing, for a number of years, about the upper-end extension of adolescence (at the same time as puberty has dropped, creating a greatly lengthened adolescent experience). people have started to talk about adolescence in three phases: – young teen (roughly 11 – 14) – middle teen (roughly [...]
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really interesting article about a new program out of duke university to help teenagers make the most of their brains. it’s totally in line with the stuff i’ve been reading (and writing about on this blog) for a couple years, about adolescent brain development. in fact, when i asked an adolescent brain specialist, at our [...]
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