Youth Ministry Resources: Culture
AXIS - Culture Translator Each week, our team researches culture to help you stay up to date on the music, movies, TV shows, and social media trends impacting your kid’s world.
Common Sense Media We protect and prepare kids for an always-on world. We're Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that puts kids' safety and well-being first in the digital era. Together with families, educators, and policymakers, we're leading the way to a safer, healthier childhood.
Wait Until 8th We empower parents to say yes to waiting for the smartphone. The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade. Let’s protect the elementary and middle school years from the distractions and the dangers of a smartphone. Banding together helps decrease the pressure to have a phone at an early age. Ten years old is the average age children get their first smartphone. You can change this! More than 125,000 parents have said yes to waiting on the smartphone for their families. This is making a tremendous difference in communities across the country!
Plugged In Plugged In by Focus on the Family reviews the world of popular entertainment and gives families the essential tools they need to understand, navigate, and impact the culture.
Phase Guides - Grade Specific The Phase Guides are a trusted resource of parents across the nation to help them raise kids with faith and character. Each guide is tailored to a kid’s unique phase and is based on hundreds of hours of research and countless interviews with child development experts, professional counselors, teachers, and parents.
AI Literacy Toolkit for Families Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping our children's world, from the videos they watch to the tools they use in school. Common Sense Media and Day of AI have teamed up to launch a free toolkit, featuring a video and interactive activities to help families and educators explore AI together. These resources support age-appropriate conversations and build the skills that kids need to thrive in a digital world.
Parent's Guide to AI (Internet Matters) A parent’s guide to AI How to get the most out of generative AI In this guide to AI, learn about the different generative AI tools like ChatGPT and My AI. Then, explore how to support learning, creativity and even bedtime using AI tools at home.
Wired Parents Heidi found digital parenting overwhelming. She was spending her evenings researching every new app and policy change, trying to figure out what was best for her family. That's when she realized - what if she just did this research for all of us?
Digital Parenthood Welcome to Digital Parenthood, your virtual parenting support group. Created by experts. Just for you. Here, you’re not alone.
Children and Screens We address today’s most compelling questions about media’s impact on child development through interdisciplinary dialogue, objective, scientific research, and information-sharing.
Gabb Blog Empowering tech parenting Gabb is a movement to connect kids to what matters most with safe technology solutions.
Got Questions Bible Questions Answered Do you have a question about God, Jesus, the Bible, or theology? Do you need help understanding a Bible verse or passage? Are there any spiritual issues in your life for which you need advice or guidance?
Room for Doubt Room For Doubt seeks to encourage questions, address doubts, and strengthen faith. Room For Doubt is a Christian ministry that presents the core truths of Christianity with both conviction and compassion. It provides resources for individuals, churches, church classes, small groups, high school youth groups, campus ministries, and Christian camps. It’s for those who need help and for those who want to help others.
Sean McDowell Blog, podcast, and books, as Sean puts it, bringing TRUTH to a new generation.
Teen Book: Your New Playlist The Student’s Guide to Tapping into the Superpower of Mindset, written by Jon Acuff and his two high school daughters, L.E. Acuff and McRae Acuff.