Some youth ministry links …
- Channel 4 show is ‘abusive’, says Cornwall safeguarding board: Cornwall’s assistant children’s director has written to Channel 4 to express “extreme disquiet” with a documentary that filmed boys and girls left alone in a village in the county.
- According to the Telegraph, the average age for a child to get his or her first cell phone is eight!
- Children out late ‘unacceptable’: but is it that simple? For some parents they find it impossible to gain respect from their teenagers.
- Nine out of 10 parents swear in front of children: The average child hears their mother or father utter six expletives a week. Two out five 11-year-olds were using swear words at an earlier age, admitting to using them in their everyday language because they heard their parents use them.
- Make Your Handwriting a Font
- MinistryQuestions.com launches for questions, answers, advice, and mentoring: Tim launches his next website – looks good
- Cardinal expresses support for Jade GoodyAnti-marijuana ads targets teens: asking them to consider the negative effects on their mental health.
- Government: You’re Cleared of Child Abuse, But It’s Too Late to Have Your Children Back: Mark and Nicky Webster’s children were taken away by social services after doctors found small fractures in their son’s leg, mistakenly thought as caused by physical abuse but later found to have a rare medical cause. When they went to clear their names and get their children back, the courts said that it was too late as the children have been formally adopted.
- Myth of the Perfect Youth Pastor
- Police to give on the spot rewards to young people: police in the Southwest are handing out on the spot rewards to young people doing good deeds, after a local teenager suggested the idea.
- Ten Questions: a list of ten significant questions to be answered by student ministers in the next decade from Mike King
- Teens send 10,000 text messages per year, study finds: the average teenager sends almost 10,000 text messages per year, and is so worried about missing an important call that they leave their mobile phone switched on overnight.
