Paul Asay, Author at YouthWorker

Youth Culture Update: Too Much Too Soon?

While college students tend to be demanding more innovation and creativity from their schools, preschoolers are more restrained to their tiny desks than ever. While kindergarten used to serve as an introduction...

Youth Culture Update: Colleges Get Innovative

Paul Asay

Traditional schooling is so 2003. Prospective college students, discouraged by a stagnant job market and lured by massive start-up success stories from the dot-com industry, want more than a solid degree from t...

Youth Culture Update: Kimojis

Paul Asay

In yet another sign that we're only living in Kim Kardashian's world, the omnipresent reality star recently unveiled her own horde of emojis, called, "Kimojis." The little symbols include Kardashian's hand gett...

Youth Culture Update: Oberlin Gags on Bad Ethnic Food

Paul Asay

Some students at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, are calling the school's food offensive, and in more ways than one. Not only does it offend students' taste buds, but also their cultural sensitivity. Stude...

Youth Culture Update: High Schools Getting Mixed Grades

Paul Asay

Here's the good news: High school graduates are on the rise nationally, with 36 of 50 states saying they graduated more students this year than last year. It's also nice to see the disparity between white and...

Youth Culture Update: Costly Addiction

Paul Asay

As concerns regarding Internet addiction grow in the United States, camps and treatment clinics are popping up across the country. On the low end, you have places such as Camp Grounded—characterized as a ...

Youth Culture Lesson: And the Winner Is…

Paul Asay

What We Can Learn from the Miss Universe Pageant Get downloadable PDF. Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation. About/Disclaimer What Happened Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo had been dreami...

Youth Culture Update: More Teens Staying away from Drugs, Alcohol

Paul Asay

Teens still drink. In fact, according to a survey from the University of Michigan, about four out of every 10 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders drank alcohol in the last year. About 13 percent of them smoked ciga...

Youth Culture Update: Mania no More

Paul Asay

Teen Mania—a ministry that, through the years, has been instrumental in fostering the faith of thousands of youth—is shutting its doors after several years of financial difficulties. "Honestly, t...

Youth Culture Lesson: Forceful

Paul Asay

Without Perseverance, We Wouldn't Have Star Wars Get downloadable PDF. Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation. About/Disclaimer What Happened Are you excited to see Star Wars VII: The Force A...