Real Faith for a Real World
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
With so many competing messages in the culture today, how can your teen retain his or her faith? John and Danny offer hope to parents on how to not be pessimistic about your son or daughter's faith. Featuring David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock.
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| 0:00.0 | Your teens are constantly bombarded with messages from so many different points of view. |
| 0:09.0 | With everything that's being thrown their way, it's really important for you to encourage them to seek and to apply wisdom. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Jean Fuller in the studio with Dr. Danny Werta who runs our focus on the family parenting team and Danny I know you've got stats about our kids and |
| 0:24.8 | how they interact with media tell us a little bit about that. Yes on this one just |
| 0:29.3 | in preparation to talk to you John I look some of this up I appreciate you I was ready for you. That's good. You bet you bet. No curveballs. |
| 0:35.6 | 1970s, this was interesting to me, 1970s, kids got about 500 to 1,600 to 1,600 advertisements per day. |
| 0:45.4 | Okay, 1,000 advertisements per day. |
| 0:47.4 | Per day. |
| 0:47.9 | Yeah, and in 2021, it's 6,000 to 10,000 plus. |
| 0:52.0 | Wow. It's just boom, just bombarded,000 plus. Wow. |
| 0:53.0 | Just boom, just bombarded. |
| 0:54.7 | And there was a study that showed that they followed 90 teens with a camera for four |
| 1:02.1 | days to see how many brands they were exposed to every day. |
| 1:06.5 | 554 brands they were exposed to every day. |
| 1:10.6 | This was in 2021. |
| 1:11.6 | It's very interesting. We are surrounded by advertising all around and our teens even more so through social media |
| 1:21.4 | Through their own friends that are advertisements as well of |
| 1:25.3 | brands and pressure and then you've got the normal just the TV the |
| 1:30.2 | streaming the movies everywhere there's advertising. |
| 1:34.0 | Well, we do live in a different world. |
| 1:35.9 | Things have changed markedly in the past 10, 15, 20 years. |
| 1:40.1 | Let's go ahead and hear now a conversation Jim Daly and I had with David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock from the Barna Group. |
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