(332,1,'2015-10-05 06:13:37','2015-10-05 06:13:37','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"0\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" /][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN embodies the same spirit through it\'s qualitative research and back door approaches for today\'s youth.  We all desire to see students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college or career.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p><p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p><p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p><p>Many of the contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, to a genesis point for the disillusionment we found in adolescents that often lead to escape behavior and motivation issues. The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p><p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p><ol><li>The Secrets of Influential Parenting: helps parents make appropriate adjustments</li><li>It’s Your Life: addresses students’ internal motivation and belief issues</li><li>Reboot: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to</li><li>Succeed: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</li></ol><p>Learn more about YTN’s Partnership Program that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p><p>Highlights/links</p><p>Research: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p><p>Partnership Program: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p><p>Parent Programs: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p><p>Student Culture: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p><p>Motivation: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p><p>College and Career Transition: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. 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What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"#\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">Worldview of Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','2-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 06:19:39','2015-10-05 06:19:39','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/2-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(334,1,'2015-10-05 06:23:50','2015-10-05 06:23:50','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. 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What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  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The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.&nbsp; This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.&nbsp; As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.&nbsp; YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.&nbsp; It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p><p><ol>\r\n<li>The Secrets of Influential Parenting: helps parents make appropriate adjustments</li>\r\n<li>It\'s Your Life: addresses students’ internal motivation and belief issues</li>\r\n<li>Reboot: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to</li>\r\n<li>Succeed: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about YTN’s Partnership Program that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Research: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Partnership Program: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Parent Programs: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Student Culture: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Motivation: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p>College and Career Transition: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.&nbsp;&nbsp; When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. 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The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.&nbsp; This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.&nbsp; As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.&nbsp; YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.&nbsp; It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p><p></p><ol>\r\n<li>The Secrets of Influential Parenting: helps parents make appropriate adjustments</li>\r\n<li>It\'s Your Life: addresses students’ internal motivation and belief issues</li>\r\n<li>Reboot: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to</li>\r\n<li>Succeed: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about YTN’s Partnership Program that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Research: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Partnership Program: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Parent Programs: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Student Culture: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Motivation: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p>College and Career Transition: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.&nbsp;&nbsp; When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. 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The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.&nbsp; This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.&nbsp; As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.&nbsp; YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.&nbsp; It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\n\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p><p></p><ol>\n<li>The Secrets of Influential Parenting: helps parents make appropriate adjustments</li>\n<li>It\'s Your Life: addresses students’ internal motivation and belief issues</li>\n<li>Reboot: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to</li>\n<li>Succeed: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</li>\n</ol>\n<p></p>\n\n<p>Learn more about YTN’s Partnership Program that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\n\n<p>Research: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\n\n<p>Partnership Program: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\n\n<p>Parent Programs: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\n\n<p>Student Culture: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\n\n<p>Motivation: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\n\n<p>College and Career Transition: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.&nbsp;&nbsp; When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. Succeed does just that!</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Adolescent Brain Development','','inherit','closed','closed','','37-autosave-v1','','','2015-10-05 06:56:40','2015-10-05 06:56:40','',37,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/37-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(342,1,'2015-10-05 06:57:12','2015-10-05 06:57:12','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Adolescent Brain Development</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>According to National Geographic, Dr Amen, and UCLA, changes occur in the adolescent brain 18 months prior to puberty (as early as eight for girls and nine for boys) when the hormones that lead to puberty are released.  These hormones usher in a phase of brain development where synapses are created between different areas of the brain in its back lobes.  This change leads to many of the behavior and performance challenges with adolescents as they become more forgetful, emotional and oppositional.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s qualitative research concluded that the predominant leadership style and parenting approaches employed today do not align well with the changes occurring in youths’ brains.  As a result our desire to assist adolescents through such approaches can be counter productive and lead to increased distance with the adolescents we seek to influence. We inadvertently trigger their oppositional nature resulting in push back, dismissal, and a loss of influence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our research and coaching with parents and adolescents found that parents tend to interpret the changes they see in their sweet kids as issues they need to fix.  They attempt to do so using the strategies they employed with their kids who were less emotional and oppositional than adolescents.  This then results in the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  Parents often do not perceive the breakdown as youth quickly learn to act a part for their parents to keep the relative peace.  Rather the breakdown takes on the form of an emotional divorce on the part of youth from their parents.  As a result, the predominant influence in their lives becomes their friends and the youth culture.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Aligning our approach with the changes that occur in the adolescent brain can bring about powerful changes in the relationship, motivation, and influence we have in students’ lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Watch Session One of the Secrets of Influential Parenting for free today link to sign up.</p\r\n\r\n<p>Have the Holly endorsement video, adolescent brain video and dual life video on this page.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Adolescent Brain Development','','inherit','closed','closed','','37-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 06:57:12','2015-10-05 06:57:12','',37,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/37-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(343,1,'2015-10-05 07:02:08','2015-10-05 07:02:08','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=37]\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\">Worldview of Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','2-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 07:02:08','2015-10-05 07:02:08','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/2-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(344,1,'2015-10-05 07:11:59','2015-10-05 07:11:59','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Motivation</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Our research and coaching sessions with adolescents and their parents led to some surprising conclusions:</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>1. Lack of Goals:</strong><br/>Significantly less than 30% of youth had goals for their own for their lives and academics. Most felt pressure or had performance expectations from their parents that left them feeling like they consistently fell short.  As a result many youth were frustrated and had little internal desire to achieve good grades.  The pressure and expectations contributed to the very motivation issues parents were trying to address through expectations and external pressure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>2. Lack of vision:</strong><br/>More prevalent with adolescent males in high school, but also present with young women, was the lack of vision for the future.  Absent a vision or direction for their lives moving forward, youth believed there was no reason to invest in today’s schoolwork.   Students with a vision for their future pushed through boring and irrelevant classes better than those who were living only for today.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>3. Adult Approach Disconnect:</strong><br/>Due to the changes that occur in the adolescent brain, the approach parents and leaders have been trained to use regarding homework, discipline, and academic motivation often has an inverse effect. Such an approach frequently triggers the oppositional nature of the adolescent brain producing a defensive or opposite outcome.   Once triggered, youth focus on the frustration and injustice of their parents’ approach and lack of belief in them; they do not reflect and learn from their failures, but instead brood about the situations.  Many of the youth we interact with who have significant motivation issues arrive at a point of not caring.  This, in fact, is a natural defense mechanism that protects them from the sense of falling short and failure.  If they do not care or make an effort then the outcome does not impact their self-perspective nearly as much and helps them buffer themselves from the predicted response of their parents and other adults. In short they grow numb.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>4. They Do Desire to Succeed:</strong><br/>Even youth that have given up still have the desire to succeed.  In our adolescent coaching and research we frequently have the opportunity to talk with youth that are greatly struggling.  In every case, once through their defense barrier, we find these youth still desire to succeed, but have often experienced a complete crash of their internal confidence and belief in their ability to succeed.  Thus, why try?  These youth often turn to other escapes that mask their sense of failure.  Escape takes on many forms ranging from social media and video games where they escape into an artificial reality, feel accepted and successful to pornography and substance abuse that provide temporary relief from their self doubt, inability to please their parents. and the pain of failure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To address deeper motivation issues we need to come alongside our kids and help rebuild their confidence one step at a time by drawing on their internal desire to succeed.  It is critical that we do not fall back into the old approaches and pressure that trigger opposition and bring back to the surface the pool of negative feelings that lead to demotivation.  Youth in such a positions are apt to be defensive as they cannot take one more negative about themselves and will quickly revert to the motivation patterns already in place.  At the core of the Secrets of Influential Parenting is a perspective, approach and set of tools that help parents alter their approach.  Parents learn to draw upon internal desire rather than rely on the external motivation tactics they have been raised to believe are the best way to parent but backfire with this generation of youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Motivation','','publish','closed','closed','','motivation','','','2015-10-05 09:40:15','2015-10-05 09:40:15','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=344',0,'page','',0),(345,1,'2015-10-05 07:06:50','2015-10-05 07:06:50','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=37]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','2-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 07:06:50','2015-10-05 07:06:50','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/2-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(347,1,'2015-10-05 07:11:59','2015-10-05 07:11:59','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Motivation</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Our research and coaching sessions with adolescents and their parents led to some surprising conclusions:</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>1. Lack of Goals:</strong><br/>Significantly less than 30% of youth had goals for their own for their lives and academics. Most felt pressure or had performance expectations from their parents that left them feeling like they consistently fell short.  As a result many youth were frustrated and had little internal desire to achieve good grades.  The pressure and expectations contributed to the very motivation issues parents were trying to address through expectations and external pressure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>2. Lack of vision:</strong><br/>More prevalent with adolescent males in high school, but also present with young women, was the lack of vision for the future.  Absent a vision or direction for their lives moving forward, youth believed there was no reason to invest in today’s schoolwork.   Students with a vision for their future pushed through boring and irrelevant classes better than those who were living only for today.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>3. Adult Approach Disconnect:</strong><br/>Due to the changes that occur in the adolescent brain, the approach parents and leaders have been trained to use regarding homework, discipline, and academic motivation often has an inverse effect. Such an approach frequently triggers the oppositional nature of the adolescent brain producing a defensive or opposite outcome.   Once triggered, youth focus on the frustration and injustice of their parents’ approach and lack of belief in them; they do not reflect and learn from their failures, but instead brood about the situations.  Many of the youth we interact with who have significant motivation issues arrive at a point of not caring.  This, in fact, is a natural defense mechanism that protects them from the sense of falling short and failure.  If they do not care or make an effort then the outcome does not impact their self-perspective nearly as much and helps them buffer themselves from the predicted response of their parents and other adults. In short they grow numb.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>4. They Do Desire to Succeed:</strong><br/>Even youth that have given up still have the desire to succeed.  In our adolescent coaching and research we frequently have the opportunity to talk with youth that are greatly struggling.  In every case, once through their defense barrier, we find these youth still desire to succeed, but have often experienced a complete crash of their internal confidence and belief in their ability to succeed.  Thus, why try?  These youth often turn to other escapes that mask their sense of failure.  Escape takes on many forms ranging from social media and video games where they escape into an artificial reality, feel accepted and successful to pornography and substance abuse that provide temporary relief from their self doubt, inability to please their parents. and the pain of failure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To address deeper motivation issues we need to come alongside our kids and help rebuild their confidence one step at a time by drawing on their internal desire to succeed.  It is critical that we do not fall back into the old approaches and pressure that trigger opposition and bring back to the surface the pool of negative feelings that lead to demotivation.  Youth in such a positions are apt to be defensive as they cannot take one more negative about themselves and will quickly revert to the motivation patterns already in place.  At the core of the Secrets of Influential Parenting is a perspective, approach and set of tools that help parents alter their approach.  Parents learn to draw upon internal desire rather than rely on the external motivation tactics they have been raised to believe are the best way to parent but backfire with this generation of youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Motivation','','inherit','closed','closed','','344-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 07:11:59','2015-10-05 07:11:59','',344,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/344-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(348,1,'2015-10-05 07:12:57','2015-10-05 07:12:57','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=37]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=344]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','2-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 07:12:57','2015-10-05 07:12:57','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/2-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(349,1,'2015-10-05 07:25:18','2015-10-05 07:25:18','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>College Transition</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research echoes that of UCLA and Ohio State; youth are less prepared for life on their own or college than at any previous point in time.   Even those with high academic achievement often struggle once on a college campus.  In our interviews with thousands of high school seniors and college freshmen, YTN uncovered a number of important factors that lead to the 28% dropout rate of freshmen. The more disturbing reality from YTN’s research was the fact that over half of the students experienced struggles academically, socially or financially that their parents new little or nothing about.  In our first set of interviews we found:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n&bull; A young woman who was sexually assaulted and contracted an STD in her first week on campus\r\n&bull; A young man who awoke in the hospital having almost died from alcohol poisoning\r\n&bull; A young woman, a junior in college, who was trapped in an abusive relationship with her boy friend stemming back to her first week on campus\r\n&bull; A young man who got himself in trouble financially and took two jobs leading to academic probation\r\n&bull; A valedictorian who thought college would be easy and could not believe how much she was struggling academically in college\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>YTN\'s Findings:</strong><br/>1.Over 80% of high school seniors felt leaving home and the transition to college would be easy.  Over 70% of college freshmen said the transition was way more difficult than they anticipated. This lack of clearly perceiving the challenges set college freshmen up to encounter difficult transition issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. Students’ lack of perception of the challenges, and associated stress, change and loneliness made them prone to encountering culture shock.  Culture shock is a physiological response to stress and change that opens them to bond with foreign culture very quickly.  This means that the first 24 to 72 hours on campus, before classes even begin, are critical to the long-term success and health of our kids.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>3. Over 60% of the youth we talked with who were headed to college or the military were, in effect, screaming for freedom from their parents. YTN found that that they could not wait to leave home and have freedom from their parents’ pressure and restrictions.  As a result most, with their anticipated freedom, were focused on the wrong things.   In effect they were like an arrow on a bow pulled back and ready to fly with one major problem; they were pointed in the wrong direction.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>4. The friends made and the activities adopted in the first days on campus often set the course for academic, and financial achievement in the first semester to year on campus.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>5. Students who did not have their own goals in place before college related to a future career, their academic achievement, and financial management were far more likely to encounter issues in the transition.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>If UCLA and Ohio State along with YTN’s research consistently find that youth are less prepared for life on their own today and a majority of youth are leading dual lives and anxious for freedom from their parents, we need to reexamine the approach to parenting we employ through the adolescent years.  This conclusion combined with all of YTN’s other research led to the development and testing of a different approach that is now called the Secrets of Influential Parenting.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','College Transition','','publish','closed','closed','','college-transition','','','2015-10-05 09:33:17','2015-10-05 09:33:17','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=349',0,'page','',0),(350,1,'2015-10-05 07:25:18','2015-10-05 07:25:18','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>College Transition</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research echoes that of UCLA and Ohio State; youth are less prepared for life on their own or college than at any previous point in time.   Even those with high academic achievement often struggle once on a college campus.  In our interviews with thousands of high school seniors and college freshmen, YTN uncovered a number of important factors that lead to the 28% dropout rate of freshmen. The more disturbing reality from YTN’s research was the fact that over half of the students experienced struggles academically, socially or financially that their parents new little or nothing about.  In our first set of interviews we found:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n&bull; A young woman who was sexually assaulted and contracted an STD in her first week on campus\r\n&bull; A young man who awoke in the hospital having almost died from alcohol poisoning\r\n&bull; A young woman, a junior in college, who was trapped in an abusive relationship with her boy friend stemming back to her first week on campus\r\n&bull; A young man who got himself in trouble financially and took two jobs leading to academic probation\r\n&bull; A valedictorian who thought college would be easy and could not believe how much she was struggling academically in college\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>YTN\'s Findings:</strong><br/>1.Over 80% of high school seniors felt leaving home and the transition to college would be easy.  Over 70% of college freshmen said the transition was way more difficult than they anticipated. This lack of clearly perceiving the challenges set college freshmen up to encounter difficult transition issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. Students’ lack of perception of the challenges, and associated stress, change and loneliness made them prone to encountering culture shock.  Culture shock is a physiological response to stress and change that opens them to bond with foreign culture very quickly.  This means that the first 24 to 72 hours on campus, before classes even begin, are critical to the long-term success and health of our kids.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>3. Over 60% of the youth we talked with who were headed to college or the military were, in effect, screaming for freedom from their parents. YTN found that that they could not wait to leave home and have freedom from their parents’ pressure and restrictions.  As a result most, with their anticipated freedom, were focused on the wrong things.   In effect they were like an arrow on a bow pulled back and ready to fly with one major problem; they were pointed in the wrong direction.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>4. The friends made and the activities adopted in the first days on campus often set the course for academic, and financial achievement in the first semester to year on campus.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>5. Students who did not have their own goals in place before college related to a future career, their academic achievement, and financial management were far more likely to encounter issues in the transition.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>If UCLA and Ohio State along with YTN’s research consistently find that youth are less prepared for life on their own today and a majority of youth are leading dual lives and anxious for freedom from their parents, we need to reexamine the approach to parenting we employ through the adolescent years.  This conclusion combined with all of YTN’s other research led to the development and testing of a different approach that is now called the Secrets of Influential Parenting.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','College Transition','','inherit','closed','closed','','349-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 07:25:18','2015-10-05 07:25:18','',349,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/349-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(351,1,'2015-10-05 07:25:43','2015-10-05 07:25:43','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=37]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=344]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=349]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','2-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 07:25:43','2015-10-05 07:25:43','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/2-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(352,1,'2015-10-05 07:33:30','2015-10-05 07:33:30','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Depression</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Depression is on the rise among adolescents. Today about <strong>twenty percent of adolescents</strong> will experience depression before they reach adulthood. (Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General).  Many more suffer some of the symptoms of depression.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In YTN’s research and coaching we have found that a lack of true understanding of depression on the part of parents and adults can limit the ability of youth to escape depression. Having encountered depression I know first hand how those who attempt to help who do not understand depression can leave a depressed person feeling more down on themselves and thus more trapped within it.  Watch the Video My Encounter with Depression in the Parent Portal to have a better understanding of what your child may be encountering.  Understanding and giving credence to their lack of motivation or desire to do anything is essential rather than the natural desire to pressure them to get moving.  Such an approach only adds to their sense of falling short and failure.  Listening, encouraging and sharing, without telling them the way they see things is not right or giving correction, allows youth to hear themselves and begin to assess their thoughts and feelings.  When they ask, “What do you think?” be positive in your reply.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In many of the adolescents with significant depression whom we have worked with, one of the main roots of their depression stemmed from a collapse of their internal belief in themselves and their abilities.  They had become so negative internally about themselves that it altered their perspective of everything around them.  Any youth who is encountering significant signs of depression link to mayo clinic signs of depression should seek the help of their physician and or psychiatrist who can prescribe medications to assist. One of the questions we like to ask when meeting with youth is if they feel pressure, heaviness or a physical ache in their chest. Depression will often manifest itself with just such an ache.  At times it can be so significant that individuals have gone to the hospital believing they are having a heart attack.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Adults can do a great deal to help youth address their depression by focusing on what is really going on inside rather than on their performance. This is a clear shift from external pressure to perform to targeting their internal beliefs and desires. While this is something we recommend and train parents to do with their adolescent, it is critical with depressed kids.  This approach allows for more open/real communication and helps parents access the discouragement that has built up within their kids, often without any indication.  Watch Tapping the Discouragement In Our Kids’ Hearts and some of the related story videos in the parent portal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Tapping discouragement is accomplished by giving adolescents a safe place to dump and evaluate their internal thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Youth who have this type of relationship draw closer to the one listening and encouraging them. This approach can be instrumental in helping an adolescent escape depression.   Depressed youth need to once again feel close and connected to others and especially their parents.  Every child wants to please their parents; at times depression can result when youth come to the conclusion that this is not possible.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today, more than ever, our adolescents need to feel heard, understood, believed in and trusted.  Understanding this and targeting the internals rather than behavior and performance is at the heart of the Secrets of Influential Parenting, which can bring about relationships that increase parents’ access and influence in their kids’ lives.  The result is more open, positive and motivated youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Depression','','publish','closed','closed','','depression','','','2015-10-05 09:41:01','2015-10-05 09:41:01','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=352',0,'page','',0),(353,1,'2015-10-05 07:33:30','2015-10-05 07:33:30','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Depression</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Depression is on the rise among adolescents. Today about <strong>twenty percent of adolescents</strong> will experience depression before they reach adulthood. (Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General).  Many more suffer some of the symptoms of depression.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In YTN’s research and coaching we have found that a lack of true understanding of depression on the part of parents and adults can limit the ability of youth to escape depression. Having encountered depression I know first hand how those who attempt to help who do not understand depression can leave a depressed person feeling more down on themselves and thus more trapped within it.  Watch the Video My Encounter with Depression in the Parent Portal to have a better understanding of what your child may be encountering.  Understanding and giving credence to their lack of motivation or desire to do anything is essential rather than the natural desire to pressure them to get moving.  Such an approach only adds to their sense of falling short and failure.  Listening, encouraging and sharing, without telling them the way they see things is not right or giving correction, allows youth to hear themselves and begin to assess their thoughts and feelings.  When they ask, “What do you think?” be positive in your reply.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In many of the adolescents with significant depression whom we have worked with, one of the main roots of their depression stemmed from a collapse of their internal belief in themselves and their abilities.  They had become so negative internally about themselves that it altered their perspective of everything around them.  Any youth who is encountering significant signs of depression link to mayo clinic signs of depression should seek the help of their physician and or psychiatrist who can prescribe medications to assist. One of the questions we like to ask when meeting with youth is if they feel pressure, heaviness or a physical ache in their chest. Depression will often manifest itself with just such an ache.  At times it can be so significant that individuals have gone to the hospital believing they are having a heart attack.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Adults can do a great deal to help youth address their depression by focusing on what is really going on inside rather than on their performance. This is a clear shift from external pressure to perform to targeting their internal beliefs and desires. While this is something we recommend and train parents to do with their adolescent, it is critical with depressed kids.  This approach allows for more open/real communication and helps parents access the discouragement that has built up within their kids, often without any indication.  Watch Tapping the Discouragement In Our Kids’ Hearts and some of the related story videos in the parent portal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Tapping discouragement is accomplished by giving adolescents a safe place to dump and evaluate their internal thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Youth who have this type of relationship draw closer to the one listening and encouraging them. This approach can be instrumental in helping an adolescent escape depression.   Depressed youth need to once again feel close and connected to others and especially their parents.  Every child wants to please their parents; at times depression can result when youth come to the conclusion that this is not possible.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today, more than ever, our adolescents need to feel heard, understood, believed in and trusted.  Understanding this and targeting the internals rather than behavior and performance is at the heart of the Secrets of Influential Parenting, which can bring about relationships that increase parents’ access and influence in their kids’ lives.  The result is more open, positive and motivated youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Depression','','inherit','closed','closed','','352-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 07:33:30','2015-10-05 07:33:30','',352,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/352-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(354,1,'2015-10-05 07:34:12','2015-10-05 07:34:12','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=37]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=344]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=349]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=352]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','2-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 07:34:12','2015-10-05 07:34:12','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/2-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(355,1,'2015-10-05 07:52:33','2015-10-05 07:52:33','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Dual Life of Adolescents</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research found that a majority of youth were leading a dual life, to varying degrees, with adults and especially parents.  Unfortunately their dual lives tended to lean towards the more serious end of the spectrum. Depending upon the community, school or youth organization, the range of youth leading dual lives fell between 65% and 90%.  The dual life, as defined by the youth in our sessions, is knowing how to act and what to say to adults and parents to keep things calm and then leading a very different life when apart from these influences.  While the dual life existed when many of us grew up, it was not as prevalent or as dark according to the youth we have interviewed.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The advent of technology, the busy schedule of parents, and the dramatic shift in the worldview of today’s adolescents have led to an explosion of young people working together to lead dual lives when apart from adults. Their strategies are fairly simple and straightforward and accomplish the goal of getting around the rules or restrictions of adults and parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This dual life begins with small compromises, which lead to larger and larger compromises as they realize they can get away with leading a dual life. As communication with their parents decreases, youth grow more distant from adults in general and develop a false sense of confidence in their own judgment.   One might expect that with such large percentages of youth leading dual lives that the issues would be so prevalent more parents would be aware of their kid’s dual life than they are today.  This is because the dual life is held in check by the fact that youth are around their parents or other adults a majority of time and can only escape into dual life activities a small percentage of the time.  The dual life is often held in check until youth leave home for work, the military or college.  This is one of the reasons why so many youth struggle in the transition to life on their own.  (Being unprepared and the belief that leaving home will be easy were discussed in the college transition research.)  Youth are free from the watchful eyes and control of parents where the dual life can take over quickly in the first days upon a college campus, in the military, or life on their own.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The root of the dual life appears to stem from parents’ misunderstanding and approach to the sudden changes in their kids’ attitudes and behavior as they approach adolescence.   These changes are caused by dramatic shifts within the adolescent brain that accompany puberty.  Parental response to these changes often leads to unresolved issues and increased conflict that causes youth to distance themselves from parents and begin to hide their failures. This is the first step toward a deceptive dual life.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Dual Life of Adolescents','','publish','closed','closed','','the-dual-life-of-adolescents','','','2015-10-05 09:40:27','2015-10-05 09:40:27','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=355',0,'page','',0),(356,1,'2015-10-05 07:52:33','2015-10-05 07:52:33','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Dual Life of Adolescents</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research found that a majority of youth were leading a dual life, to varying degrees, with adults and especially parents.  Unfortunately their dual lives tended to lean towards the more serious end of the spectrum. Depending upon the community, school or youth organization, the range of youth leading dual lives fell between 65% and 90%.  The dual life, as defined by the youth in our sessions, is knowing how to act and what to say to adults and parents to keep things calm and then leading a very different life when apart from these influences.  While the dual life existed when many of us grew up, it was not as prevalent or as dark according to the youth we have interviewed.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The advent of technology, the busy schedule of parents, and the dramatic shift in the worldview of today’s adolescents have led to an explosion of young people working together to lead dual lives when apart from adults. Their strategies are fairly simple and straightforward and accomplish the goal of getting around the rules or restrictions of adults and parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This dual life begins with small compromises, which lead to larger and larger compromises as they realize they can get away with leading a dual life. As communication with their parents decreases, youth grow more distant from adults in general and develop a false sense of confidence in their own judgment.   One might expect that with such large percentages of youth leading dual lives that the issues would be so prevalent more parents would be aware of their kid’s dual life than they are today.  This is because the dual life is held in check by the fact that youth are around their parents or other adults a majority of time and can only escape into dual life activities a small percentage of the time.  The dual life is often held in check until youth leave home for work, the military or college.  This is one of the reasons why so many youth struggle in the transition to life on their own.  (Being unprepared and the belief that leaving home will be easy were discussed in the college transition research.)  Youth are free from the watchful eyes and control of parents where the dual life can take over quickly in the first days upon a college campus, in the military, or life on their own.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The root of the dual life appears to stem from parents’ misunderstanding and approach to the sudden changes in their kids’ attitudes and behavior as they approach adolescence.   These changes are caused by dramatic shifts within the adolescent brain that accompany puberty.  Parental response to these changes often leads to unresolved issues and increased conflict that causes youth to distance themselves from parents and begin to hide their failures. This is the first step toward a deceptive dual life.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Dual Life of Adolescents','','inherit','closed','closed','','355-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 07:52:33','2015-10-05 07:52:33','',355,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/355-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(357,1,'2015-10-05 08:02:57','2015-10-05 08:02:57','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=37]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=344]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=349]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=352]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=355]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','2-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 08:02:57','2015-10-05 08:02:57','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/2-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(358,1,'2015-10-05 08:09:45','2015-10-05 08:09:45','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Parental Relationship</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>It is no great surprise that a majority of the youth we interviewed were frustrated at one or more levels with their parents.  Yet some surprising findings came from our interviews with those teens who had made good transitions to life on their own.  A significant majority of these youth still had the desire to please their parents intact.   As we pondered this, it made sense. Youth who wanted to please their parents had a reason to avoid the activities that would pull them off course in the transition.  Unfortunately we found this to be the case with only a fraction of the youth we interviewed.  By contrast a majority were either looking forward to if not screaming for freedom from their parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>We found that those who made great transitions to life on their own had dramatically different relationships with their parents.  These relationships took on a more peer-to-peer or adult-to-adult tone. Confidence and independence had been extended to these youth much earlier by their parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Another piece of research supported these findings.  Notre Dame University found that 69% of teens wanted more parental involvement in their lives.  This is a finding that many parents would find difficult to believe due to what they experienced with their adolescents.   YTN found that while a majority of youth wanted more parental involvement and a closer relationship with their parents, they believed it was not possible.   While they wanted more closeness and involvement, they sought a different type of involvement and did not think they had the platform to address these issues with their parents. They thought they  would either be misunderstood or worse result in an argument.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Notre Dame Study, combined with our research, calls into the question our cultural conclusion, that no matter what, there will be distance in the relationship and issues during the adolescent years. As a culture we have come to dread the thought of our kids’ becoming adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This does not need to be the case.  Parents, who have adopted a different view and changed how they engage with their adolescents,  report closer relationships, more influence and 70% to 80% fewer conflicts.   The parent adolescent relationship can be enjoyable, positive, and empowering.  To experience such an outcome we must alter our view of adolescents and align our approach with the reality of the changes that occur within the adolescent brain.  Altering our approach in these years allows our kids to remain connected to us, seek our involvement and maintain their desire to please us which our research indicates is critical if our youth are to avoid the common pitfalls of adolescence.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Parental Relationship','','publish','closed','closed','','the-parental-relationship','','','2015-10-05 09:21:25','2015-10-05 09:21:25','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=358',0,'page','',0),(359,1,'2015-10-05 08:09:45','2015-10-05 08:09:45','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Parental Relationship</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>It is no great surprise that a majority of the youth we interviewed were frustrated at one or more levels with their parents.  Yet some surprising findings came from our interviews with those teens who had made good transitions to life on their own.  A significant majority of these youth still had the desire to please their parents intact.   As we pondered this, it made sense. Youth who wanted to please their parents had a reason to avoid the activities that would pull them off course in the transition.  Unfortunately we found this to be the case with only a fraction of the youth we interviewed.  By contrast a majority were either looking forward to if not screaming for freedom from their parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>We found that those who made great transitions to life on their own had dramatically different relationships with their parents.  These relationships took on a more peer-to-peer or adult-to-adult tone. Confidence and independence had been extended to these youth much earlier by their parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Another piece of research supported these findings.  Notre Dame University found that 69% of teens wanted more parental involvement in their lives.  This is a finding that many parents would find difficult to believe due to what they experienced with their adolescents.   YTN found that while a majority of youth wanted more parental involvement and a closer relationship with their parents, they believed it was not possible.   While they wanted more closeness and involvement, they sought a different type of involvement and did not think they had the platform to address these issues with their parents. They thought they  would either be misunderstood or worse result in an argument.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Notre Dame Study, combined with our research, calls into the question our cultural conclusion, that no matter what, there will be distance in the relationship and issues during the adolescent years. As a culture we have come to dread the thought of our kids’ becoming adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This does not need to be the case.  Parents, who have adopted a different view and changed how they engage with their adolescents,  report closer relationships, more influence and 70% to 80% fewer conflicts.   The parent adolescent relationship can be enjoyable, positive, and empowering.  To experience such an outcome we must alter our view of adolescents and align our approach with the reality of the changes that occur within the adolescent brain.  Altering our approach in these years allows our kids to remain connected to us, seek our involvement and maintain their desire to please us which our research indicates is critical if our youth are to avoid the common pitfalls of adolescence.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Parental Relationship','','inherit','closed','closed','','358-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 08:09:45','2015-10-05 08:09:45','',358,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/358-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(360,1,'2015-10-05 08:10:04','2015-10-05 08:10:04','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=37]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=344]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=349]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=352]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=355]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=358]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','2-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 08:10:04','2015-10-05 08:10:04','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/2-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(361,1,'2015-10-05 08:21:59','2015-10-05 08:21:59','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Student Body Culture</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>The <a href=\"[permalink id=364]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">worldview of today\'s youth</a> has dramatically shifted. Youth organizations can no longer overlook the culture of their student body.  The mindset shift means that today’s youth will be more influenced by the nature, experience and authenticity of fellow students than the information and programs that seek to make a difference in their life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In our research, YTN found that the <a href=\"[permalink id=355]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">dual life</a> culture, which is so prevalent among youth today, can undermine everything we attempt to accomplish in young peoples’ lives.  When youth come and listen to our information and programs, but find them subverted by the dual life of a majority of the participating youth, the culture of the student body can counter our efforts. The dual life culture can harm academic motivation in two primary ways:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. The activities youth become involved with through the influence of older students who are a part of the dual life culture become distractions or worse direct hindrances to academic achievement.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. If the dual life culture directly assaults academic achievement, it can be especially destructive to the desire and effort placed on academic achievement with post-modern youth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>When youth were modern in mindset the culture of the group had far less impact on motivation. Today with their priority on experience, community and authenticity, the impact of the student culture is far greater. However, there is some good news. Through YTN’s research and work to improve the student culture of groups, we have found a vast majority of youth disapprove of the dual life culture in their organizations even though they may be participating in order  to have the community they value.  They find the dual life inconsistent with their desire for authenticity as well as frustrating because it often leads to hurt within the community.  Due to the unwritten code of silence and the gulf that exists between youth and adults today, many youth believe there is no safe way to address the frustrating reality of the student culture in their group.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN\'s <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a> program offers students the opportunity to not just address the culture but to redefine the culture of their group.  This occurs  through an interactive Socratic method,  helping them identify what they truly desire for their group.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Student Body Culture','','publish','closed','closed','','the-student-body-culture','','','2015-10-05 09:36:41','2015-10-05 09:36:41','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=361',0,'page','',0),(362,1,'2015-10-05 08:21:59','2015-10-05 08:21:59','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Student Body Culture</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>The <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">worldview of today\'s youth</a> has dramatically shifted. Youth organizations can no longer overlook the culture of their student body.  The mindset shift means that today’s youth will be more influenced by the nature, experience and authenticity of fellow students than the information and programs that seek to make a difference in their life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In our research, YTN found that the <a href=\"[permalink id=355]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">dual life</a> culture, which is so prevalent among youth today, can undermine everything we attempt to accomplish in young peoples’ lives.  When youth come and listen to our information and programs, but find them subverted by the dual life of a majority of the participating youth, the culture of the student body can counter our efforts. The dual life culture can harm academic motivation in two primary ways:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. The activities youth become involved with through the influence of older students who are a part of the dual life culture become distractions or worse direct hindrances to academic achievement.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. If the dual life culture directly assaults academic achievement, it can be especially destructive to the desire and effort placed on academic achievement with post-modern youth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>When youth were modern in mindset the culture of the group had far less impact on motivation. Today with their priority on experience, community and authenticity, the impact of the student culture is far greater. However, there is some good news. Through YTN’s research and work to improve the student culture of groups, we have found a vast majority of youth disapprove of the dual life culture in their organizations even though they may be participating in order  to have the community they value.  They find the dual life inconsistent with their desire for authenticity as well as frustrating because it often leads to hurt within the community.  Due to the unwritten code of silence and the gulf that exists between youth and adults today, many youth believe there is no safe way to address the frustrating reality of the student culture in their group.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN\'s <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a> program offers students the opportunity to not just address the culture but to redefine the culture of their group.  This occurs  through an interactive Socratic method,  helping them identify what they truly desire for their group.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Student Body Culture','','inherit','closed','closed','','361-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 08:21:59','2015-10-05 08:21:59','',361,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/361-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(363,1,'2015-10-05 08:22:16','2015-10-05 08:22:16','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=37]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=344]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=349]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=352]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=355]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=358]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=361]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','2-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 08:22:16','2015-10-05 08:22:16','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/2-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(364,1,'2015-10-05 08:28:00','2015-10-05 08:28:00','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>World View Of Today\'s Adolescents</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>The change in today\'s youth is often thought to be a result of social media and the internet, but YTN\'s study of youth and the same shift in Europe seventy years ago led us to a different conclusion.  We believe that the explosion of social media is a response to a shift in the mindset or worldview of our younger generations.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>A significant shift has occurred in the fundamental way young people view their world similar to what happened in Europe seventy years ago.  Today most adults/parents have a fundamentally modern view of the world, but a majority of youth has a post-modern worldview.  Worldview can be a nebulous concept and may best be described as how one perceives and evaluates their surroundings, information, relationships, as well as draws conclusions.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>A majority of adults today have a modern worldview.  They evaluate their world through a factual or more knowledge based paradigm.   Moderns tend to value knowledge, evidence, science, and higher education.  In short they gather information or facts to make decisions for themselves.  As a result moderns are more performance driven.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today a majority of youth is post-modern.  They view and evaluate their existence based on very different criteria. Post-moderns value authenticity, community and experience more than knowledge, facts and evidence.  As a result as they gain information they do not draw conclusions on information alone.  Instead they process information through a more relational, experiential grid.  They take the information and assess whether that information will work for and within their community and family.  They assess its authenticity or truthfulness upon an experience that either confirms the knowledge works or does not.  Post-moderns are fundamentally skeptical of knowledge and truth given the barrage of often conflicting information our \"modern culture\" has created that is thrown at them at a volume far greater than what we experienced when we grew up.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>As a result post-moderns seek authentic relationships and community as a more fundamental need than knowledge and information. When combined with the increasing involvement of adults in youths’ lives over when we grew up and youths’ inescapable feeling that they cannot be honest with adults, the explosion of social media makes sense. They seek to create a sense of community in a culture where neighborhoods and community have to a large degree broken down.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The impact of these differences on the parent adolescent relationship should not be overlooked.  As parents take an information, knowledge-based approach with their kids, it frustrates their kids who by contrast want to have healthy, authentic relationships within their family that validate the information parents are using to motivate them to perform.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','World View Of Today\'s Adolescents','','publish','closed','closed','','world-view-of-todays-adolescents','','','2015-10-05 08:28:00','2015-10-05 08:28:00','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=364',0,'page','',0),(365,1,'2015-10-05 08:28:00','2015-10-05 08:28:00','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>World View Of Today\'s Adolescents</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>The change in today\'s youth is often thought to be a result of social media and the internet, but YTN\'s study of youth and the same shift in Europe seventy years ago led us to a different conclusion.  We believe that the explosion of social media is a response to a shift in the mindset or worldview of our younger generations.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>A significant shift has occurred in the fundamental way young people view their world similar to what happened in Europe seventy years ago.  Today most adults/parents have a fundamentally modern view of the world, but a majority of youth has a post-modern worldview.  Worldview can be a nebulous concept and may best be described as how one perceives and evaluates their surroundings, information, relationships, as well as draws conclusions.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>A majority of adults today have a modern worldview.  They evaluate their world through a factual or more knowledge based paradigm.   Moderns tend to value knowledge, evidence, science, and higher education.  In short they gather information or facts to make decisions for themselves.  As a result moderns are more performance driven.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today a majority of youth is post-modern.  They view and evaluate their existence based on very different criteria. Post-moderns value authenticity, community and experience more than knowledge, facts and evidence.  As a result as they gain information they do not draw conclusions on information alone.  Instead they process information through a more relational, experiential grid.  They take the information and assess whether that information will work for and within their community and family.  They assess its authenticity or truthfulness upon an experience that either confirms the knowledge works or does not.  Post-moderns are fundamentally skeptical of knowledge and truth given the barrage of often conflicting information our \"modern culture\" has created that is thrown at them at a volume far greater than what we experienced when we grew up.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>As a result post-moderns seek authentic relationships and community as a more fundamental need than knowledge and information. When combined with the increasing involvement of adults in youths’ lives over when we grew up and youths’ inescapable feeling that they cannot be honest with adults, the explosion of social media makes sense. They seek to create a sense of community in a culture where neighborhoods and community have to a large degree broken down.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The impact of these differences on the parent adolescent relationship should not be overlooked.  As parents take an information, knowledge-based approach with their kids, it frustrates their kids who by contrast want to have healthy, authentic relationships within their family that validate the information parents are using to motivate them to perform.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','World View Of Today\'s Adolescents','','inherit','closed','closed','','364-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 08:28:00','2015-10-05 08:28:00','',364,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/364-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(366,1,'2015-10-05 08:28:34','2015-10-05 08:28:34','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Student Body Culture</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>The <a href=\"[permalink id=364]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">worldview of today\'s youth</a> has dramatically shifted. Youth organizations can no longer overlook the culture of their student body.  The mindset shift means that today’s youth will be more influenced by the nature, experience and authenticity of fellow students than the information and programs that seek to make a difference in their life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In our research, YTN found that the <a href=\"[permalink id=355]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">dual life</a> culture, which is so prevalent among youth today, can undermine everything we attempt to accomplish in young peoples’ lives.  When youth come and listen to our information and programs, but find them subverted by the dual life of a majority of the participating youth, the culture of the student body can counter our efforts. The dual life culture can harm academic motivation in two primary ways:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. The activities youth become involved with through the influence of older students who are a part of the dual life culture become distractions or worse direct hindrances to academic achievement.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. If the dual life culture directly assaults academic achievement, it can be especially destructive to the desire and effort placed on academic achievement with post-modern youth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>When youth were modern in mindset the culture of the group had far less impact on motivation. Today with their priority on experience, community and authenticity, the impact of the student culture is far greater. However, there is some good news. Through YTN’s research and work to improve the student culture of groups, we have found a vast majority of youth disapprove of the dual life culture in their organizations even though they may be participating in order  to have the community they value.  They find the dual life inconsistent with their desire for authenticity as well as frustrating because it often leads to hurt within the community.  Due to the unwritten code of silence and the gulf that exists between youth and adults today, many youth believe there is no safe way to address the frustrating reality of the student culture in their group.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN\'s <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a> program offers students the opportunity to not just address the culture but to redefine the culture of their group.  This occurs  through an interactive Socratic method,  helping them identify what they truly desire for their group.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Student Body Culture','','inherit','closed','closed','','361-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 08:28:34','2015-10-05 08:28:34','',361,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/361-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(367,1,'2015-10-05 08:28:47','2015-10-05 08:28:47','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research Introduction</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=37]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=344]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=349]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=352]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=355]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=358]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=361]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=364]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','2-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 08:28:47','2015-10-05 08:28:47','',2,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/2-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(368,1,'2015-10-05 08:41:37','2015-10-05 08:41:37','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Youth Orgs</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/3imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"left\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Youth organizations set the pace when it comes to creatively address a broad range of factors impacting their students.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN embodies the same spirit through it\'s qualitative research and back door approaches for today\'s youth.  We all desire to see students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college or career.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Many of the contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, to a genesis point for the disillusionment we found in adolescents that often lead to escape behavior and motivation issues. The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. The <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br/>2. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br/>3. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br/>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Research: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Partnership Program: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Parent Programs: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Student Culture: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Motivation: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p>College and Career Transition: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. Succeed does just that!</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','YouthOrg','','inherit','closed','closed','','295-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 08:41:37','2015-10-05 08:41:37','',295,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/295-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(369,1,'2015-10-05 08:49:12','2015-10-05 08:49:12','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Youth Orgs</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/3imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"left\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Youth organizations set the pace when it comes to creatively address a broad range of factors impacting their students.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN embodies the same spirit through it\'s qualitative research and back door approaches for today\'s youth.  We all desire to see students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college or career.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Many of the contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, to a genesis point for the disillusionment we found in adolescents that often lead to escape behavior and motivation issues. The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. The <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br>2. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br>3. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. Succeed does just that!</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','YouthOrg','','inherit','closed','closed','','295-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 08:49:12','2015-10-05 08:49:12','',295,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/295-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(370,1,'2015-10-05 08:55:29','2015-10-05 08:55:29','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Youth Orgs</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/3imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"left\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Youth organizations set the pace when it comes to creatively address a broad range of factors impacting their students.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN embodies the same spirit through it\'s qualitative research and back door approaches for today\'s youth.  We all desire to see students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college or career.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Many of the contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, to a genesis point for the disillusionment we found in adolescents that often lead to escape behavior and motivation issues. The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br>2. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br>3. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. 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It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br>2. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br>3. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=375]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=393]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. Succeed does just that!</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','YouthOrg','','inherit','closed','closed','','295-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 09:22:25','2015-10-05 09:22:25','',295,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/295-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(402,1,'2015-10-05 09:30:55','2015-10-05 09:30:55','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>It\'s Your Life</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>It\'s Your Life helps adoelscents own the direction of their lives.  YTN\'s research found that adolescents consistently give far too much power over their motivation and life direction to those around them.  This leads to frustration and a greater disconnect with adults. Just when they should be stepping up, many are retreating due to the weight of perceived expectations and pressure and the oppositional nature of their adolescent brain.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our research driven approach gets small groups of students talking, expressing their frustrations and challenges and leads to the identification of their motivation issues. As students are allowed to hear themselves and each other they process things differently and come to understand the source of their motivation issues.  They respond positively to the empowering message to take the reigns of their life and success. When integrated with the use of Strength Finders 2.0, youth organization mentors involvement and vision building, the turn around can be breath taking.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','It\'s Your Life','','publish','closed','closed','','its-your-life','','','2015-10-05 09:34:36','2015-10-05 09:34:36','',295,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=402',0,'page','',0),(403,1,'2015-10-05 09:30:55','2015-10-05 09:30:55','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>It\'s Your Life</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>It\'s Your Life helps adoelscents own the direction of their lives.  YTN\'s research found that adolescents consistently give far too much power over their motivation and life direction to those around them.  This leads to frustration and a greater disconnect with adults. Just when they should be stepping up, many are retreating due to the weight of perceived expectations and pressure and the oppositional nature of their adolescent brain.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our research driven approach gets small groups of students talking, expressing their frustrations and challenges and leads to the identification of their motivation issues. As students are allowed to hear themselves and each other they process things differently and come to understand the source of their motivation issues.  They respond positively to the empowering message to take the reigns of their life and success. When integrated with the use of Strength Finders 2.0, youth organization mentors involvement and vision building, the turn around can be breath taking.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','It\'s Your Life','','inherit','closed','closed','','402-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 09:30:55','2015-10-05 09:30:55','',402,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/402-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(404,1,'2015-10-05 09:31:35','2015-10-05 09:31:35','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Youth Orgs</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/3imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"left\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Youth organizations set the pace when it comes to creatively address a broad range of factors impacting their students.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN embodies the same spirit through it\'s qualitative research and back door approaches for today\'s youth.  We all desire to see students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college or career.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Many of the contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, to a genesis point for the disillusionment we found in adolescents that often lead to escape behavior and motivation issues. The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br>2. <a href=\"[permalink id=402]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br>3. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=375]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=393]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. Succeed does just that!</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','YouthOrg','','inherit','closed','closed','','295-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 09:31:35','2015-10-05 09:31:35','',295,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/295-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(405,1,'2015-10-05 09:35:32','2015-10-05 09:35:32','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Reboot</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>One of the primary sources of discouragement and motivation issues is the dual life culture that is so prevalent among adolescents today.  This culture discourages connection with adults and encourages a mindset and activities that are counter-productive to academic success.  The post-modern mindset of youth today allows the student culture with in our organizations to impact them to a much greater degree.  While difficult, addressing this culture can result in an amazing turn around in a large percentage of students.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Reboot is a research driven approach that gives students the venue to express their frustration with the dual life culture and an opportunity to redefine the student culture.  In every Reboot conducted to date students found the culture frustrating and disheartening but had no way to address it.  Reboot is crafted to allow segments of the student body to become involved in defining the problems and then redefining the culture they would like to have. This offers an opportunity for a newly defined culture to become a school wide commitment. </p>\r\n\r\n<p>Reboot is not for the faint of heart as it will bring many issues in students\' lives to light.  That alone can bring about a tremendous change in students and in the culture of the school as students who would have never before rallied around each other do so.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Reboot is not for the faint of heart as it will bring many issues in students\' lives to light.  That alone can bring about a tremendous change in students and in the culture of the school as students who would have never before rallied around each other do so.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To explore the potential of these preventive programs further, call YTN at 602-441-2240 or use the contact form below.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Reboot','','publish','closed','closed','','reboot','','','2015-10-06 07:26:32','2015-10-06 07:26:32','',295,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=405',0,'page','',0),(406,1,'2015-10-05 09:35:32','2015-10-05 09:35:32','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Reboot</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>One of the primary sources of discouragement and motivation issues is the dual life culture that is so prevalent among adolescents today.  This culture discourages connection with adults and encourages a mindset and activities that are counter-productive to academic success.  The post-modern mindset of youth today allows the student culture with in our organizations to impact them to a much greater degree.  While difficult, addressing this culture can result in an amazing turn around in a large percentage of students.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Reboot is a research driven approach that gives students the venue to express their frustration with the dual life culture and an opportunity to redefine the student culture.  In every Reboot conducted to date students found the culture frustrating and disheartening but had no way to address it.  Reboot is crafted to allow segments of the student body to become involved in defining the problems and then redefining the culture they would like to have. This offers an opportunity for a newly defined culture to become a school wide commitment. </p>\r\n\r\n<p>Reboot is not for the faint of heart as it will bring many issues in students\' lives to light.  That alone can bring about a tremendous change in students and in the culture of the school as students who would have never before rallied around each other do so.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Reboot is not for the faint of heart as it will bring many issues in students\' lives to light.  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We all desire to see students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college or career.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Many of the contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, to a genesis point for the disillusionment we found in adolescents that often lead to escape behavior and motivation issues. The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br>2. <a href=\"[permalink id=402]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br>3. <a href=\"[permalink id=405]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=375]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=393]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. Succeed does just that!</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','YouthOrg','','inherit','closed','closed','','295-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 09:36:24','2015-10-05 09:36:24','',295,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/295-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(408,1,'2015-10-05 09:37:55','2015-10-05 09:37:55','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Reboot</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>One of the primary sources of discouragement and motivation issues is the dual life culture that is so prevalent among adolescents today.  This culture discourages connection with adults and encourages a mindset and activities that are counter-productive to academic success.  The post-modern mindset of youth today allows the student culture with in our organizations to impact them to a much greater degree.  While difficult, addressing this culture can result in an amazing turn around in a large percentage of students.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Reboot is a research driven approach that gives students the venue to express their frustration with the dual life culture and an opportunity to redefine the student culture.  In every Reboot conducted to date students found the culture frustrating and disheartening but had no way to address it.  Reboot is crafted to allow segments of the student body to become involved in defining the problems and then redefining the culture they would like to have. This offers an opportunity for a newly defined culture to become a school wide commitment. </p>\r\n\r\n<p>Reboot is not for the faint of heart as it will bring many issues in students\' lives to light.  That alone can bring about a tremendous change in students and in the culture of the school as students who would have never before rallied around each other do so.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Reboot is not for the faint of heart as it will bring many issues in students\' lives to light.  That alone can bring about a tremendous change in students and in the culture of the school as students who would have never before rallied around each other do so.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To explore the potential of these preventive programs further, call YTN at 602-441-2240 or use the contact form below.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Reboot','','inherit','closed','closed','','405-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 09:37:55','2015-10-05 09:37:55','',405,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/405-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(409,1,'2015-10-05 09:45:18','2015-10-05 09:45:18','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>College Transition</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Today 28 % of college freshmen do not make it through their freshman year and only 30 % who start a degree complete it.  YTN began its <a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">research</a> by looking into the issues that snared students in transition. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Review the findings.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In summary students left home believing the transition would be easy while looking forward to the freedom of being away from home.  As result they were not prepared for the stress, change, and loneliness that left them needing a place to connect to fill the void. In this need they often connect to things that are counter productive to their success in college.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To address this YTN shot a series of videos with college students around the major topics that lead to failure in college.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n1) Change, Stress and Loneliness (The reality of the change)\r\n2) Culture Shock   \r\n3) Money Matters  (Money management in the context of freedom)\r\n4) Time Flies (Time and syllabus management)\r\n5) Taking the Reigns of Your Life  (A plan that matters)\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p>These videos couple with dynamic content to open students’ and parents’ eyes to the reality of the change and how to navigate it successfully.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This live program called Succeed leverages student video and several topic experts to shift students’ view of the freedom they will have.  It replaces the desire for freedom with a focus on their desire to succeed, the best motivation to help them navigate the change and stress they will encounter.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Contact YTN through the form below to explore bringing this fast paced dynamic event designed for high school students to your school.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Video testimony of mom on page.  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YTN began its <a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">research</a> by looking into the issues that snared students in transition. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Review the findings.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>In summary students left home believing the transition would be easy while looking forward to the freedom of being away from home.  As result they were not prepared for the stress, change, and loneliness that left them needing a place to connect to fill the void. In this need they often connect to things that are counter productive to their success in college.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To address this YTN shot a series of videos with college students around the major topics that lead to failure in college.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n1) Change, Stress and Loneliness (The reality of the change)\r\n2) Culture Shock   \r\n3) Money Matters  (Money management in the context of freedom)\r\n4) Time Flies (Time and syllabus management)\r\n5) Taking the Reigns of Your Life  (A plan that matters)\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p>These videos couple with dynamic content to open students’ and parents’ eyes to the reality of the change and how to navigate it successfully.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This live program called Succeed leverages student video and several topic experts to shift students’ view of the freedom they will have.  It replaces the desire for freedom with a focus on their desire to succeed, the best motivation to help them navigate the change and stress they will encounter.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Contact YTN through the form below to explore bringing this fast paced dynamic event designed for high school students to your school.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Video testimony of mom on page.  Succeed promo secular video</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','College Transition','','inherit','closed','closed','','409-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 09:45:18','2015-10-05 09:45:18','',409,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/409-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(412,1,'2015-10-05 09:46:25','2015-10-05 09:46:25','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Youth Orgs</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/3imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"left\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Youth organizations set the pace when it comes to creatively address a broad range of factors impacting their students.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN embodies the same spirit through it\'s qualitative research and back door approaches for today\'s youth.  We all desire to see students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college or career.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Many of the contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, to a genesis point for the disillusionment we found in adolescents that often lead to escape behavior and motivation issues. The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br>2. <a href=\"[permalink id=402]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br>3. <a href=\"[permalink id=405]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=375]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=393]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=409]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. Succeed does just that!</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','YouthOrg','','inherit','closed','closed','','295-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 09:46:25','2015-10-05 09:46:25','',295,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/295-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(413,1,'2015-10-05 09:48:19','2015-10-05 09:48:19','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Youth Orgs</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/3imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"left\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Youth organizations set the pace when it comes to creatively address a broad range of factors impacting their students.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN embodies the same spirit through it\'s qualitative research and back door approaches for today\'s youth.  We all desire to see students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college or career.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Many of the contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, to a genesis point for the disillusionment we found in adolescents that often lead to escape behavior and motivation issues. The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs youth organizations can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br>2. <a href=\"[permalink id=402]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br>3. <a href=\"[permalink id=405]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=375]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=361]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=393]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=409]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. Succeed does just that!</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','YouthOrg','','inherit','closed','closed','','295-revision-v1','','','2015-10-05 09:48:19','2015-10-05 09:48:19','',295,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/05/295-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(414,1,'2015-10-06 03:53:50','2015-10-06 03:53:50','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Schools</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"left\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Today schools are seeking creative ways to address a broad range of factors impacting their students.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Every school district desires to see their students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, a genesis point for the disillusionment we found far too often in adolescents that led to escape behaviors and motivation issues.  The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs schools can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n1. <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments\r\n2. <a href=\"[permalink id=507]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It’s Your Life</a>: addresses students’ internal motivation and belief issues\r\n3. <a href=\"[permalink id=510]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to\r\n4. <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"[permalink id=498]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s School Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=468]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=498]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=501]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=491]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=504]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=514]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. 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Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, a genesis point for the disillusionment we found far too often in adolescents that led to escape behaviors and motivation issues.  The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs schools can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br>2. <a href=\"[permalink id=402]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br>3. <a href=\"[permalink id=405]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=375]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=361]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=393]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=409]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. 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Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem. 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Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, a genesis point for the disillusionment we found far too often in adolescents that led to escape behaviors and motivation issues.  The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs schools can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br>2. <a href=\"[permalink id=402]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br>3. <a href=\"[permalink id=405]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=375]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=361]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. 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Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.  </p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, a genesis point for the disillusionment we found far too often in adolescents that led to escape behaviors and motivation issues.  The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs schools can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments<br>2. <a href=\"[permalink id=402]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It\'s Your Life</a>: addresses students\' internal motivation and belief issues<br>3. <a href=\"[permalink id=405]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to<br>4. <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=2]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=371]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=375]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=361]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=393]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=409]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. 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Form to request full access to parent equipping series.  Link to research and assessment tool.</p>\n\n<p>We understand that parents play a crucial role in the development and motivation of their kids.  In spite of the clear need, little is done to equip parents to help their kids flourish through the adolescent years.</p>\n\n<p>Based on our research, YTN developed a variety of equipping options for parents of six to eighteen year olds called the Secrets of Influential Parenting.  Influential Parenting combines research with student videos and an understanding of the adolescent brain to help parents see the need to change their approach during the adolescent years. It offers parents a different set of tools to establish positive influential relationships with their kids. To learn more about the Secrets of Influential Parenting <a href=\"#\">sign up to watch a session</a> and some of the over 120 parent support videos for free or read the description in the parent area of the site.</p>\n\n<p>Link to fill out request for full access to parent equipping series.</p>\n\n<p>Adolescence begins as early as age eight for girls and age nine for boys.  It is never too early for parents to gain a different perspective on their role in these crucial years. </p>\n\n<p>YTN offers a variety of ways Youth Organizations can involve parents including:</p>\n\n<p>&bull; An online parent portal that parents can join to access the entire equipping series and over 120 two to five minute support videos</p>\n\n<p>&bull; A train the trainer program that certifies embedded school district employees to deliver influential parenting to parents</p>\n\n<p>&bull; Live two and four hour seminars from YTN that compel parents to make a change and join parenting classes or the parent portal based upon partners direction.</p>\n\n<p>Read the following quotes and watch the videos to understand the impact the Secrets of Influential Parenting program is having on parents and their kids.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parent Programs','','inherit','closed','closed','','375-autosave-v1','','','2015-10-06 07:24:38','2015-10-06 07:24:38','',375,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/06/375-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(425,1,'2015-10-07 03:50:26','2015-10-07 03:50:26','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parents</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Today’s Christian Parents are Looking for Answers![/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Every parent wants to remain close to their kids as they grow up, but balancing this with the desire to see them succeed, keep their faith and avoid potential pitfalls is a challenge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today many of the answers parents find are recycled from simpler times when neighborhoods had true neighbors and the Internet and social media did not exist.  These answers are no longer as effective as they once were.  YTN’s extensive research has explained why and pointed to different solutions.  </p>\r\n\r\n<p>The key is altering our approach as parents to align with the changes that occur with our kids 18 months prior to puberty, as early as age eight for girls and nine for boys.   These changes are a result of the new phase in brain development that results in a decrease in activity in the frontal lobe of their brains. This causes children to be more forgetful and emotional as well as exhibit more oppositional behavior.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Though conflict and distance have long been considered an inevitable outcome of adolescence, YTN’s research found that closer, more positive relationships that increase parental influence are possible throughout the adolescent years and are vital if the post modern youth of today are to remain part of our faith beyond our homes.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about theSecrets of Influential Parenting and YTN’s Parent Support Portal that can help you become the type of parent we all desire to be!</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','publish','closed','closed','','parents','','','2015-10-08 09:58:10','2015-10-08 09:58:10','',0,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=425',0,'page','',0),(427,1,'2015-10-07 03:50:26','2015-10-07 03:50:26','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"left\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 03:50:26','2015-10-07 03:50:26','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(428,1,'2015-10-07 03:52:22','2015-10-07 03:52:22','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 03:52:22','2015-10-07 03:52:22','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(429,1,'2015-10-07 03:57:02','2015-10-07 03:57:02','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Findings</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 03:57:02','2015-10-07 03:57:02','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(430,1,'2015-10-07 08:05:13','2015-10-07 08:05:13','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Adolescent Brain Development</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>According to National Geographic, Dr. Amen, and UCLA, changes occur in the adolescent brain eighteen months prior to puberty (as early as age eight for girls and age nine for boys) when the hormones that lead to puberty are released.  These hormones usher in a phase of brain development where synapses are created between different areas of the brain in its back lobes.  This change leads to many of the behavior and performance issues parents encounter with their adolescents.  It is also the reason youth begin to reevaluate all they once held as true or believed.  Simply put their brain now has new ways to analyze and in affect perspectives from which to view information, concepts and beliefs so a natural revaluation occurs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s qualitative research concluded that the predominant parenting approaches from the past and which are being taught today do not align well with the changes occurring in youths’ brains.  As a result our desire to help our kids address issues through such approaches can result in a break-down in the parent adolescent relationship.  Parents often do not perceive the breakdown as youth quickly learn to act a role for their parents to keep relative peace.  Rather the breakdown takes on the form of an emotional divorce on the part of youth from their parents and results in the predominant influence in their lives becoming their friends and the youth culture.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Aligning our approach to parenting with the changes that occur in the adolescent brain can bring about powerful changes in the relationship and in the motivation and direction of our kids.  Watch Session One of the Secrets of Influential Parenting for free today.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Have the adolescent brain video and dual life video on this page.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Adolescent Brain Development','','publish','closed','closed','','adolescent-brain-development','','','2015-10-08 09:55:29','2015-10-08 09:55:29','',461,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=430',0,'page','',0),(431,1,'2015-10-07 08:05:13','2015-10-07 08:05:13','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Adolescent Brain Development</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>According to National Geographic, Dr. Amen, and UCLA, changes occur in the adolescent brain eighteen months prior to puberty (as early as age eight for girls and age nine for boys) when the hormones that lead to puberty are released.  These hormones usher in a phase of brain development where synapses are created between different areas of the brain in its back lobes.  This change leads to many of the behavior and performance issues parents encounter with their adolescents.  It is also the reason youth begin to reevaluate all they once held as true or believed.  Simply put their brain now has new ways to analyze and in affect perspectives from which to view information, concepts and beliefs so a natural revaluation occurs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s qualitative research concluded that the predominant parenting approaches from the past and which are being taught today do not align well with the changes occurring in youths’ brains.  As a result our desire to help our kids address issues through such approaches can result in a break-down in the parent adolescent relationship.  Parents often do not perceive the breakdown as youth quickly learn to act a role for their parents to keep relative peace.  Rather the breakdown takes on the form of an emotional divorce on the part of youth from their parents and results in the predominant influence in their lives becoming their friends and the youth culture.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Aligning our approach to parenting with the changes that occur in the adolescent brain can bring about powerful changes in the relationship and in the motivation and direction of our kids.  Watch Session One of the Secrets of Influential Parenting for free today.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Have the adolescent brain video and dual life video on this page.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Adolescent Brain Development','','inherit','closed','closed','','430-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:05:13','2015-10-07 08:05:13','',430,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/430-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(432,1,'2015-10-07 08:12:46','2015-10-07 08:12:46','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Academic Motivation</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>In our research and coaching sessions with adolescents and parents, YTN came to some surprising conclusions:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1.  Less then 30% of youth had goals of their own for their lives and academics.  Most felt pressure or had performance expectations from their parents that left many feeling like they consistently fell short.  As a result many youth had little internal desire to achieve good grades and instead were frustrated by the pressure and expectations of their parents. Given the oppositional nature of the <a href=\"#\" title=\"\">adolescent brain</a> expectations and external pressure actually contributed to the motivation issues parents were trying to address.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2.  Because of the changes that occur in the adolescent brain, the approach parents have been trained to use regarding homework and academic motivation can have an inverse effect.   Such approaches will frequently trigger the oppositional nature of the adolescent brain producing a defensive or inverse outcome.   Many of the youth we interact with who have significant motivation issues arrive at a point of not caring.  This in fact is a natural defense mechanism that protects them from a sense of falling short and failure.  If they do not care or make an effort, then the outcome does not impact their self- perspective nearly as much and helps them buffer themselves from the predicted response of their parents.  In short they grow numb.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>3.  Even youth that have given up still have a desire to succeed.  In our adolescent coaching and research we frequently have the opportunity to talk with youth that are greatly struggling.  In every case, once through their defense barrier, we find they still desire to succeed, but have often experienced a complete crash of their internal confidence and belief that they can succeed.  Thus, why try?  These youth often turn to other escapes that mask their sense of failure.  Escape takes on many forms ranging from social media and video games where they escape into an artificial reality, feel accepted and successful, to pornography and substance abuse that provide temporary relief from self-doubt and their pain of failure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To address deeper motivation issuesparents need to come alongside their kids and help rebuild their confidence one step at a time by drawing on their internal desire to succeed.  It is critical that parents do not fall back into old approaches and pressure that bring back to the surface the pool of negative feelings that lead to demotivation. Youth in such a position are apt to become defensive as they cannot take one more negative about themselves.They will quickly revert to the oppositional behavior and motivation patterns consistent with the oppositional nature of the adolescent brain.   At the core of the Secrets of Influential Parenting is the concept of internal desire rather than external motivation tactics that we have been raised to believe are the best way to parent but backfire with this generation of youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Academic Motivation','','publish','closed','closed','','academic-motivation','','','2015-10-08 09:57:50','2015-10-08 09:57:50','',461,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=432',0,'page','',0),(433,1,'2015-10-07 08:10:36','2015-10-07 08:10:36','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Findings</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:10:36','2015-10-07 08:10:36','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(434,1,'2015-10-07 08:12:46','2015-10-07 08:12:46','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Academic Motivation</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>In our research and coaching sessions with adolescents and parents, YTN came to some surprising conclusions:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1.  Less then 30% of youth had goals of their own for their lives and academics.  Most felt pressure or had performance expectations from their parents that left many feeling like they consistently fell short.  As a result many youth had little internal desire to achieve good grades and instead were frustrated by the pressure and expectations of their parents. Given the oppositional nature of the <a href=\"#\" title=\"\">adolescent brain</a> expectations and external pressure actually contributed to the motivation issues parents were trying to address.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2.  Because of the changes that occur in the adolescent brain, the approach parents have been trained to use regarding homework and academic motivation can have an inverse effect.   Such approaches will frequently trigger the oppositional nature of the adolescent brain producing a defensive or inverse outcome.   Many of the youth we interact with who have significant motivation issues arrive at a point of not caring.  This in fact is a natural defense mechanism that protects them from a sense of falling short and failure.  If they do not care or make an effort, then the outcome does not impact their self- perspective nearly as much and helps them buffer themselves from the predicted response of their parents.  In short they grow numb.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>3.  Even youth that have given up still have a desire to succeed.  In our adolescent coaching and research we frequently have the opportunity to talk with youth that are greatly struggling.  In every case, once through their defense barrier, we find they still desire to succeed, but have often experienced a complete crash of their internal confidence and belief that they can succeed.  Thus, why try?  These youth often turn to other escapes that mask their sense of failure.  Escape takes on many forms ranging from social media and video games where they escape into an artificial reality, feel accepted and successful, to pornography and substance abuse that provide temporary relief from self-doubt and their pain of failure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To address deeper motivation issuesparents need to come alongside their kids and help rebuild their confidence one step at a time by drawing on their internal desire to succeed.  It is critical that parents do not fall back into old approaches and pressure that bring back to the surface the pool of negative feelings that lead to demotivation. Youth in such a position are apt to become defensive as they cannot take one more negative about themselves.They will quickly revert to the oppositional behavior and motivation patterns consistent with the oppositional nature of the adolescent brain.   At the core of the Secrets of Influential Parenting is the concept of internal desire rather than external motivation tactics that we have been raised to believe are the best way to parent but backfire with this generation of youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Academic Motivation','','inherit','closed','closed','','432-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:12:46','2015-10-07 08:12:46','',432,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/432-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(435,1,'2015-10-07 08:13:10','2015-10-07 08:13:10','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=432]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Findings</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:13:10','2015-10-07 08:13:10','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(436,1,'2015-10-07 08:20:06','2015-10-07 08:20:06','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>College Transition</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research echoes that of UCLA and Ohio State; youth are less prepared for life on their own or college than at any previous point in time.   Even those with high academic achievement often struggle once on a college campus.  In our interviews with thousands of high school seniors and college freshmen YTN uncovered a number of important factors that lead to the 28% dropout rate of freshmen and the 70% of Christian youth that exit the faith when they leave home.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The more disturbing reality from YTN’s research was the fact that over half of the students encountered struggles academically, socially or financially that parents knew little or nothing about.  In our first set of interviews we found:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n• A young women who was sexually assaulted and contracted an STD in her first week on campus\r\n• A young man who awoke in the hospital having almost died from alcohol poisoning\r\n• A young women, a college junior, who was trapped in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend stemming back to her first week on campus\r\n• A young man who got himself in financial trouble and took two jobs which led to academic probation\r\n• A valedictorian who thought college would be easy and could not believe how much she was struggling academically\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>YTN\'s Findings:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. Over 80% of high school seniors believed that leaving home and the transition to college would be easy.  Over 70% of college freshman said the transition was much more difficult than they anticipated. This lack of clearly perceiving the challenges set college freshman up to encounter difficult transition issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. Students who lacked an understanding of the challenges, associated stress, changes and loneliness they would face were prone to experiencing culture shock.  Culture shock is a physiological response to stress and change that opens one to bond with a foreign culture very quickly.  It also leads them to cast off the culture and belief’s of the culture of their origin. This meant that the first 24 to 72 hours on campus, before classes even begin, were critical to the long-term success, faith and health of our kids.  Helping kids see and understand the changes challenges and stress before they leave home is vital to help minimize the impact of culture shock.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>3. Over 60% of the youth we talked with who were heading to college or the military were, in effect, screaming for freedom from their parents.  YTN found that that they could not wait to leave home and have freedom from their parents’ pressure and restrictions.  As a result most were focused on the wrong things with their anticipated freedom. In effect they were like an arrow on a bow pulled back and ready to fly with one major problem; they were pointed in the wrong direction.  High school seniors in this mindset were far more likely to encounter problems and exit their faith in the transition to college, the military or career.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>4. The friends made and the activities adopted in the first days on campus or away from home often set the course for their academic achievement and financial statusfor their first semester to year on campus.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>5. Students who did not have their own goals in place before college related to their future, lifestyle, career, academic achievement and financial management were far more likely to encounter issues in the transition.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>If UCLA and Ohio State along with YTN’s research consistently find that youth are less prepared for life on their own today and a majority of youth are leading dual lives and anxious for freedom from their parents, we must reexamine the approach to parenting we take through the adolescent years.  These findings combined with all of YTN’s other research lead to the development and testing of a different approach that is now called the Secrets of Influential Parenting.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','College Transition','','publish','closed','closed','','college-transition','','','2015-10-08 09:56:06','2015-10-08 09:56:06','',461,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=436',0,'page','',0),(437,1,'2015-10-07 08:20:06','2015-10-07 08:20:06','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>College Transition</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research echoes that of UCLA and Ohio State; youth are less prepared for life on their own or college than at any previous point in time.   Even those with high academic achievement often struggle once on a college campus.  In our interviews with thousands of high school seniors and college freshmen YTN uncovered a number of important factors that lead to the 28% dropout rate of freshmen and the 70% of Christian youth that exit the faith when they leave home.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The more disturbing reality from YTN’s research was the fact that over half of the students encountered struggles academically, socially or financially that parents knew little or nothing about.  In our first set of interviews we found:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n&bull; A young women who was sexually assaulted and contracted an STD in her first week on campus\r\n&bull; A young man who awoke in the hospital having almost died from alcohol poisoning\r\n&bull; A young women, a college junior, who was trapped in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend stemming back to her first week on campus\r\n&bull; A young man who got himself in financial trouble and took two jobs which led to academic probation\r\n&bull; A valedictorian who thought college would be easy and could not believe how much she was struggling academically\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','College Transition','','inherit','closed','closed','','436-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:20:06','2015-10-07 08:20:06','',436,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/436-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(438,1,'2015-10-07 08:23:53','2015-10-07 08:23:53','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=432]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=436]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s Findings</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:23:53','2015-10-07 08:23:53','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(439,1,'2015-10-07 08:35:21','2015-10-07 08:35:21','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Depression</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Depression is on the rise among adolescents.  Today about <strong>20 percent of adolescents</strong> will experience depression before they reach adulthood. (Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General).  Many more suffer some of the symptoms of depression.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In YTN’s research and coaching of parents and adolescents we have found that the lack of true understanding of depression on the part of parents can limit the ability of youth to escape depression. Having experienced depression, I know first hand how people’s attempts to help,who do not understand depression, can leave a depressed person feeling more down on themselves and thus more trapped within it.  Watch the video,My Encounter with Depression, in the Parent Portal to have a better understanding of what your child may be experiencing. Understanding and giving credence to their lack of motivation or desire to do anything is essential rather than pressuring them to get moving which will add to their sense of falling short and failure.  Listening, encouraging and sharing without telling them that the way they see themselves is not right or giving correction allows youth to hear themselves and begin to assess their thoughts.  When they ask, “What do you think?”give them positive feedback.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In many of the adolescents we have coachedwho struggle with significant depressionwe have found that one of the roots of their depression stemmed from a collapse of their internal belief in themselves and their abilities.  They had become so negative internally about themselves that it altered their perspective of everything around them.  Any youth who is encountering significant signs of depression (link to mayo clinic signs of depression) should seek the help of their physician and or psychiatrist who can prescribe medications to help.One question we like to ask when meeting with youth is if they feel a pressure or a physical ache in their chest.  Often depression will manifest with just such an ache.  At times it can be so significant that people have gone to the hospital believing they are having a heart attack.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>As a parent you can do a great deal to help your youth address their depression. Ifyour focus changes from performance to what is really going on inside,you make a shift from external pressure to perform to targeting their internal beliefs and desires While this is something we recommend and encourage parents to do with every adolescent, it is critical with those who are depressed. This approach allows for more open and real communication and gives parents access to tap the discouragement that can build up within our kids often without any indication.  Watch Tapping the Discouragement from our Kid’s Hearts and some of the story videos related to this in the parent portal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Tap discouragement by giving your adolescent a safe place to dump and evaluate it.Draw close through understanding.  Listen, encourage and help them process the things that have become an energy drain within.  This approach will greatly helpyour adolescent escape depression.   Depressed youth need to once again feel close and connected to their parents.  Every child wants to please their parents.When youth come to the conclusion that this is not possible, at times, depression can occur.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today more than ever our adolescents need to feel heard, understood, believed in and trusted. Understanding this and targeting the internals rather than the behavior and performance is at the heart of the Secrets of Influential Parenting, which can bring about relationships that increase parents’ access and influence in their kids’ lives and result in more open, positive and motivated youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Depression','','publish','closed','closed','','depression','','','2015-10-08 09:56:38','2015-10-08 09:56:38','',461,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=439',0,'page','',0),(440,1,'2015-10-07 08:29:49','2015-10-07 08:29:49','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=432]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=436]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:29:49','2015-10-07 08:29:49','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(441,1,'2015-10-07 08:32:37','2015-10-07 08:32:37','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>College Transition</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research echoes that of UCLA and Ohio State; youth are less prepared for life on their own or college than at any previous point in time.   Even those with high academic achievement often struggle once on a college campus.  In our interviews with thousands of high school seniors and college freshmen YTN uncovered a number of important factors that lead to the 28% dropout rate of freshmen and the 70% of Christian youth that exit the faith when they leave home.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The more disturbing reality from YTN’s research was the fact that over half of the students encountered struggles academically, socially or financially that parents knew little or nothing about.  In our first set of interviews we found:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n• A young women who was sexually assaulted and contracted an STD in her first week on campus\r\n• A young man who awoke in the hospital having almost died from alcohol poisoning\r\n• A young women, a college junior, who was trapped in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend stemming back to her first week on campus\r\n• A young man who got himself in financial trouble and took two jobs which led to academic probation\r\n• A valedictorian who thought college would be easy and could not believe how much she was struggling academically\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>YTN\'s Findings:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. Over 80% of high school seniors believed that leaving home and the transition to college would be easy.  Over 70% of college freshman said the transition was much more difficult than they anticipated. This lack of clearly perceiving the challenges set college freshman up to encounter difficult transition issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. Students who lacked an understanding of the challenges, associated stress, changes and loneliness they would face were prone to experiencing culture shock.  Culture shock is a physiological response to stress and change that opens one to bond with a foreign culture very quickly.  It also leads them to cast off the culture and belief’s of the culture of their origin. This meant that the first 24 to 72 hours on campus, before classes even begin, were critical to the long-term success, faith and health of our kids.  Helping kids see and understand the changes challenges and stress before they leave home is vital to help minimize the impact of culture shock.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>3. Over 60% of the youth we talked with who were heading to college or the military were, in effect, screaming for freedom from their parents.  YTN found that that they could not wait to leave home and have freedom from their parents’ pressure and restrictions.  As a result most were focused on the wrong things with their anticipated freedom. In effect they were like an arrow on a bow pulled back and ready to fly with one major problem; they were pointed in the wrong direction.  High school seniors in this mindset were far more likely to encounter problems and exit their faith in the transition to college, the military or career.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>4. The friends made and the activities adopted in the first days on campus or away from home often set the course for their academic achievement and financial statusfor their first semester to year on campus.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>5. Students who did not have their own goals in place before college related to their future, lifestyle, career, academic achievement and financial management were far more likely to encounter issues in the transition.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>If UCLA and Ohio State along with YTN’s research consistently find that youth are less prepared for life on their own today and a majority of youth are leading dual lives and anxious for freedom from their parents, we must reexamine the approach to parenting we take through the adolescent years.  These findings combined with all of YTN’s other research lead to the development and testing of a different approach that is now called the Secrets of Influential Parenting.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','College Transition','','inherit','closed','closed','','436-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:32:37','2015-10-07 08:32:37','',436,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/436-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(442,1,'2015-10-07 08:35:21','2015-10-07 08:35:21','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Depression</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Depression is on the rise among adolescents.  Today about <strong>20 percent of adolescents</strong> will experience depression before they reach adulthood. (Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General).  Many more suffer some of the symptoms of depression.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In YTN’s research and coaching of parents and adolescents we have found that the lack of true understanding of depression on the part of parents can limit the ability of youth to escape depression. Having experienced depression, I know first hand how people’s attempts to help,who do not understand depression, can leave a depressed person feeling more down on themselves and thus more trapped within it.  Watch the video,My Encounter with Depression, in the Parent Portal to have a better understanding of what your child may be experiencing. Understanding and giving credence to their lack of motivation or desire to do anything is essential rather than pressuring them to get moving which will add to their sense of falling short and failure.  Listening, encouraging and sharing without telling them that the way they see themselves is not right or giving correction allows youth to hear themselves and begin to assess their thoughts.  When they ask, “What do you think?”give them positive feedback.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In many of the adolescents we have coachedwho struggle with significant depressionwe have found that one of the roots of their depression stemmed from a collapse of their internal belief in themselves and their abilities.  They had become so negative internally about themselves that it altered their perspective of everything around them.  Any youth who is encountering significant signs of depression (link to mayo clinic signs of depression) should seek the help of their physician and or psychiatrist who can prescribe medications to help.One question we like to ask when meeting with youth is if they feel a pressure or a physical ache in their chest.  Often depression will manifest with just such an ache.  At times it can be so significant that people have gone to the hospital believing they are having a heart attack.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>As a parent you can do a great deal to help your youth address their depression. Ifyour focus changes from performance to what is really going on inside,you make a shift from external pressure to perform to targeting their internal beliefs and desires While this is something we recommend and encourage parents to do with every adolescent, it is critical with those who are depressed. This approach allows for more open and real communication and gives parents access to tap the discouragement that can build up within our kids often without any indication.  Watch Tapping the Discouragement from our Kid’s Hearts and some of the story videos related to this in the parent portal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Tap discouragement by giving your adolescent a safe place to dump and evaluate it.Draw close through understanding.  Listen, encourage and help them process the things that have become an energy drain within.  This approach will greatly helpyour adolescent escape depression.   Depressed youth need to once again feel close and connected to their parents.  Every child wants to please their parents.When youth come to the conclusion that this is not possible, at times, depression can occur.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today more than ever our adolescents need to feel heard, understood, believed in and trusted. Understanding this and targeting the internals rather than the behavior and performance is at the heart of the Secrets of Influential Parenting, which can bring about relationships that increase parents’ access and influence in their kids’ lives and result in more open, positive and motivated youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Depression','','inherit','closed','closed','','439-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:35:21','2015-10-07 08:35:21','',439,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/439-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(443,1,'2015-10-07 08:38:31','2015-10-07 08:38:31','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=432]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=436]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=439]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:38:31','2015-10-07 08:38:31','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(444,1,'2015-10-07 08:43:08','2015-10-07 08:43:08','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Dual Life of Adolescents</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research found that a majority of youth areleading a dual life with their parents to varying degrees, more often towards the more serious end of the spectrum. Depending upon the community, school or youth organization the range of youth leading dual lives fell between 60% and 90%.  Unfortunately in Christian schools and youth groups the percentages of youth leading dual lives was higher then in non-faith based organizations.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The dual life, as defined by the youth in our sessions,is knowing how to act and what to say when with parents or adults and then leading a very different life when apart from these influences. While the dual life existed when many of us grew up it was not as prevalent or as dark according to the youth we have interviewed.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The advent of technology, the busy schedule of parents, and the dramatic shift in the worldview of today’s adolescents have led to an explosion of young people working together to lead dual lives when apart from adults. Their strategies are fairly simple and straight- forward and accomplish the goal of getting around mom and dad’s rules or restrictions.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This dual life begins with small compromises that lead to larger and larger compromises as they realize they can get away with the dual life.  Communication with their parents decreases and youth develop a false sense of confidence in their own judgment.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>One might expect that with such large percentages of youth leading dual lives that the issues would be so prevalent more parents would be aware of their kids’ dual lives than they are today.  This is because the dual life is held in check by the fact that youth are around their parents or other adults a majority of the time and can only escape into their dual life activities a small percentage of the time.  Thus the dual life is held in check until they leave home for work, the military or college.  This is one reason so many youth struggle in the transition to life on their own.  They are free from the watchful eyes and control of parents; the dual life can take over quickly in the first days on a college campus, on military leave, or in ones own apartment.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The root of the dual life appears to stem from parents’ misunderstanding as well as how they approach the sudden changes in their kids’ attitudes and behavior as they near adolescence.   These changes are caused by dramatic shifts within the adolescent brain that accompany puberty.  The parental response to these changes often leads to unresolved issues and increased conflict that causes youth to distance themselves from parents and begin to hide their failures. This is the first step toward a deceptive dual life.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Dual Life of Adolescents','','publish','closed','closed','','the-dual-life-of-adolescents','','','2015-10-08 09:57:26','2015-10-08 09:57:26','',461,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=444',0,'page','',0),(445,1,'2015-10-07 08:43:08','2015-10-07 08:43:08','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Dual Life of Adolescents</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research found that a majority of youth areleading a dual life with their parents to varying degrees, more often towards the more serious end of the spectrum. Depending upon the community, school or youth organization the range of youth leading dual lives fell between 60% and 90%.  Unfortunately in Christian schools and youth groups the percentages of youth leading dual lives was higher then in non-faith based organizations.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The dual life, as defined by the youth in our sessions,is knowing how to act and what to say when with parents or adults and then leading a very different life when apart from these influences. While the dual life existed when many of us grew up it was not as prevalent or as dark according to the youth we have interviewed.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The advent of technology, the busy schedule of parents, and the dramatic shift in the worldview of today’s adolescents have led to an explosion of young people working together to lead dual lives when apart from adults. Their strategies are fairly simple and straight- forward and accomplish the goal of getting around mom and dad’s rules or restrictions.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This dual life begins with small compromises that lead to larger and larger compromises as they realize they can get away with the dual life.  Communication with their parents decreases and youth develop a false sense of confidence in their own judgment.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>One might expect that with such large percentages of youth leading dual lives that the issues would be so prevalent more parents would be aware of their kids’ dual lives than they are today.  This is because the dual life is held in check by the fact that youth are around their parents or other adults a majority of the time and can only escape into their dual life activities a small percentage of the time.  Thus the dual life is held in check until they leave home for work, the military or college.  This is one reason so many youth struggle in the transition to life on their own.  They are free from the watchful eyes and control of parents; the dual life can take over quickly in the first days on a college campus, on military leave, or in ones own apartment.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The root of the dual life appears to stem from parents’ misunderstanding as well as how they approach the sudden changes in their kids’ attitudes and behavior as they near adolescence.   These changes are caused by dramatic shifts within the adolescent brain that accompany puberty.  The parental response to these changes often leads to unresolved issues and increased conflict that causes youth to distance themselves from parents and begin to hide their failures. This is the first step toward a deceptive dual life.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Dual Life of Adolescents','','inherit','closed','closed','','444-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:43:08','2015-10-07 08:43:08','',444,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/444-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(446,1,'2015-10-07 08:48:59','2015-10-07 08:48:59','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Faith Loss</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Our research concluded that there were three main factors that adversely impacted the faith of youth raised in the church.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. A parent/adolescent relationship in which parents miss the transition from raising a child to developing an adult at the onset of the adolescent mind set change.  A break down in the parent adolescent relationship frequently leads <a href=\"\" title=\"\">post modern</a> youth to distance from or dismiss altogether the beliefs and values of their parents because those beliefs from their perspective did not work.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. The dual life culture that a majority of youth lead today.  This dual life experience discredits the truth. While they have heard the truth their entire lives their experience with the truth indicates that it does not work and thus is it true.  Gradually the dual life eats away at their faith leading them to reject the truth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>3. The lack of true preparation for life on their own that leaves youth unprepared, stressed out and open to culture shock when they leave home. Culture shock literally opens them to bond with a foreign culture in a short period of time.  To do so they must cast off their previous culture and often beliefs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Of the students we talked to of liberal campuses, perhaps 1 in 10 reported that their faith had been negatively impacted by attacks on faith on the university campus.  In fact, we found many students who never encountered overt attacks on their faith in the classroom and few who felt challenged by the content of world religion courses.  By comparison we found that a majority of students encountered moral failure in the first days on campus as they tried to escape the loneliness and stress.  This moral failure often caused to avoid engaging in a church or campus ministry.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Are Teens Who Leave the Church Believers?<br/>We often hear that a key factor behind the loss of youth in the church is that many of the students in our youth groups are not genuine believers. As we interacted with teens in youth groups, we were surprised by the large percentage of teens who feel guilty and unsuccessful in their faith. This indicated to us that these young people are believers who have lost heart, rather than unbelievers who have not come to genuine faith.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Clearly, unbelievers do exist in our youth groups but according to our research, this is not the major reason why teens leave the church.  As we looked into the eyes of the young people we interviewed, we often saw frustration and disillusionment. We also saw the Lord behind those disillusioned eyes.\r\nStatistics tell us that the majority of Christians become believers by the age of 19, which is why we place such a high priority on reaching children and teens.  Many of the students we interviewed had professed faith as children.  Rather than assuming that those who leave the church are not believers, we are better served by seeking out the reasons that their hearts have grown distant from the Lord while under our care.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Faith Loss','','publish','closed','closed','','faith-loss','','','2015-10-08 09:57:00','2015-10-08 09:57:00','',461,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=446',0,'page','',0),(447,1,'2015-10-07 08:45:02','2015-10-07 08:45:02','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=432]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=436]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=439]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=444]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:45:02','2015-10-07 08:45:02','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(448,1,'2015-10-07 08:48:59','2015-10-07 08:48:59','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Faith Loss</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Our research concluded that there were three main factors that adversely impacted the faith of youth raised in the church.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. A parent/adolescent relationship in which parents miss the transition from raising a child to developing an adult at the onset of the adolescent mind set change.  A break down in the parent adolescent relationship frequently leads <a href=\"\" title=\"\">post modern</a> youth to distance from or dismiss altogether the beliefs and values of their parents because those beliefs from their perspective did not work.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. The dual life culture that a majority of youth lead today.  This dual life experience discredits the truth. While they have heard the truth their entire lives their experience with the truth indicates that it does not work and thus is it true.  Gradually the dual life eats away at their faith leading them to reject the truth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>3. The lack of true preparation for life on their own that leaves youth unprepared, stressed out and open to culture shock when they leave home. Culture shock literally opens them to bond with a foreign culture in a short period of time.  To do so they must cast off their previous culture and often beliefs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Of the students we talked to of liberal campuses, perhaps 1 in 10 reported that their faith had been negatively impacted by attacks on faith on the university campus.  In fact, we found many students who never encountered overt attacks on their faith in the classroom and few who felt challenged by the content of world religion courses.  By comparison we found that a majority of students encountered moral failure in the first days on campus as they tried to escape the loneliness and stress.  This moral failure often caused to avoid engaging in a church or campus ministry.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Are Teens Who Leave the Church Believers?<br/>We often hear that a key factor behind the loss of youth in the church is that many of the students in our youth groups are not genuine believers. As we interacted with teens in youth groups, we were surprised by the large percentage of teens who feel guilty and unsuccessful in their faith. This indicated to us that these young people are believers who have lost heart, rather than unbelievers who have not come to genuine faith.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Clearly, unbelievers do exist in our youth groups but according to our research, this is not the major reason why teens leave the church.  As we looked into the eyes of the young people we interviewed, we often saw frustration and disillusionment. We also saw the Lord behind those disillusioned eyes.\r\nStatistics tell us that the majority of Christians become believers by the age of 19, which is why we place such a high priority on reaching children and teens.  Many of the students we interviewed had professed faith as children.  Rather than assuming that those who leave the church are not believers, we are better served by seeking out the reasons that their hearts have grown distant from the Lord while under our care.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Faith Loss','','inherit','closed','closed','','446-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:48:59','2015-10-07 08:48:59','',446,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/446-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(449,1,'2015-10-07 08:53:15','2015-10-07 08:53:15','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Parental Relationship</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>It is no great surprise that a majority of the youth we interviewed were frustrated at one or more levels with their parents.  Yet a surprising finding came from our interviews with teens who had made good transitions to life on their own.  Most of these youth still had intact the desire to please their parents.   As we pondered this, it made sense; youth who wanted to please their parents had a reason to avoid the activities that would pull them off course in the transition.  Unfortunately this was the case with only a fraction of the youth we interviewed.  By contrast the majority was looking forward to if not screaming for freedom from their parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The youth who made great transitions to life on their own had dramatically different relationships with their parents.  These relationships had a more peer-to-peer or adult to adult tone.  Parents showed more confidence in their teens and extended more independence much earlier.  As a result youth stepped up rather then back and had more respect for their parents and their families values and beliefs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Another piece of research supported these findings.  Notre Dame University found that 69% of teens wanted more parental involvement in their lives.  Many parents would find this difficult to believe given the interaction they experienced with their adolescents.   YTN found that while a majority of youth wanted more parental involvement and a closer relationship with their parents, they did not believe it was possible.   While they wanted more closeness and involvement, they sought a different type of involvement and did not believe they had the platform to address this with their parents.  They feared their thoughts would either be misunderstood or lead to an argument.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Combined with our research, the Notre Dame study calls into the question our cultural conclusion that no matter what, there will be distance and issues in the relationship  during the adolescent years.  As a culture we have come to dread the thought of our kids’ becoming adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN believes that this does not need to be the case.  Parents, who have adopted a different view and modified their interaction with their youth, report closer relationships, more influence and 70% to 80% fewer conflicts. The parent adolescent relationship can be enjoyable, positive and empowering. To experience such an outcome we must alter our view of adolescents and align our approach with the reality of the changes that occur within the adolescent brain.  Altering our approach in these years allows our kids to remain connected to us, seek our involvement and maintain their desire to please us and to take more seriously our faith. Our research indicates this is crucial if youth are to avoid the common pitfalls of adolescence.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Parental Relationship','','publish','closed','closed','','the-parental-relationship','','','2015-10-08 09:58:33','2015-10-08 09:58:33','',461,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=449',0,'page','',0),(450,1,'2015-10-07 08:51:29','2015-10-07 08:51:29','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=432]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=436]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=439]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=444]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=446]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:51:29','2015-10-07 08:51:29','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(451,1,'2015-10-07 08:53:15','2015-10-07 08:53:15','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Parental Relationship</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>It is no great surprise that a majority of the youth we interviewed were frustrated at one or more levels with their parents.  Yet a surprising finding came from our interviews with teens who had made good transitions to life on their own.  Most of these youth still had intact the desire to please their parents.   As we pondered this, it made sense; youth who wanted to please their parents had a reason to avoid the activities that would pull them off course in the transition.  Unfortunately this was the case with only a fraction of the youth we interviewed.  By contrast the majority was looking forward to if not screaming for freedom from their parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The youth who made great transitions to life on their own had dramatically different relationships with their parents.  These relationships had a more peer-to-peer or adult to adult tone.  Parents showed more confidence in their teens and extended more independence much earlier.  As a result youth stepped up rather then back and had more respect for their parents and their families values and beliefs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Another piece of research supported these findings.  Notre Dame University found that 69% of teens wanted more parental involvement in their lives.  Many parents would find this difficult to believe given the interaction they experienced with their adolescents.   YTN found that while a majority of youth wanted more parental involvement and a closer relationship with their parents, they did not believe it was possible.   While they wanted more closeness and involvement, they sought a different type of involvement and did not believe they had the platform to address this with their parents.  They feared their thoughts would either be misunderstood or lead to an argument.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Combined with our research, the Notre Dame study calls into the question our cultural conclusion that no matter what, there will be distance and issues in the relationship  during the adolescent years.  As a culture we have come to dread the thought of our kids’ becoming adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN believes that this does not need to be the case.  Parents, who have adopted a different view and modified their interaction with their youth, report closer relationships, more influence and 70% to 80% fewer conflicts. The parent adolescent relationship can be enjoyable, positive and empowering. To experience such an outcome we must alter our view of adolescents and align our approach with the reality of the changes that occur within the adolescent brain.  Altering our approach in these years allows our kids to remain connected to us, seek our involvement and maintain their desire to please us and to take more seriously our faith. Our research indicates this is crucial if youth are to avoid the common pitfalls of adolescence.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Parental Relationship','','inherit','closed','closed','','449-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:53:15','2015-10-07 08:53:15','',449,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/449-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(452,1,'2015-10-07 08:57:45','2015-10-07 08:57:45','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>World View</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>The change in today’s youth is often thought to be a result of social media and the Internet, but YTN’s study of youth led us to a different conclusion.  We believe the explosion of social media is a response to a shift in the mindset or worldview of our younger generations.  Worldview can be a nebulous concept and may best be described as how one perceives and evaluates their surroundings, information, and relationships, and also how one draws conclusions.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today, most adults, parents and leaders have a fundamentally modern view of the world,<br/>They evaluate their world through a factual or more knowledge-based paradigm.   Moderns tend to value knowledge, evidence, science, and higher education.  In short they gather information or facts to make decisions for themselves.  As a result moderns are more performance driven.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>A significant shift has occurred in the fundamental way young people view their world.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today a majority of youth has a post-modern worldview.  They view and evaluate their existence based upon very different criteria than their parents. Post-moderns value authenticity, community and experience more than knowledge, facts and evidence.  As they gain information, they do not draw conclusions based solely on that information. Instead that information is processed through a more relational, experiential grid.  They take the information and assess whether it will work for and within their community and family.  They assess its authenticity or truthfulness based on an experience that either confirms that the knowledge works or does not work.  Post-moderns are fundamentally skeptical of knowledge and truth given the barrage of often conflicting information our “modern culture” has created and is thrown at them at a volume far greater than what we experienced growing up.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>As a result post-moderns seek authentic relationships and community; they are more fundamental needs than knowledge and information. The explosion of social media makes sense as youth seek to create a sense of community in a culture where neighborhoods and community have to a large degree broken down.  Other factors that contribute to the explosion are the increasing involvement of adults in youths’ lives (it is much greater than in the past) and youths’ inescapable feeling that they cannot be honest with adults.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The impact of these differences on the parent adolescent relationship should not be overlooked.  A parent’s information, knowledge-based approach is frustrating to their kids who by contrast want to have healthy, authentic relationships within their family that validate the information, values and beliefs parents are employing to try to shape their kids.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','World View','','publish','closed','closed','','world-view','','','2015-10-08 09:59:03','2015-10-08 09:59:03','',461,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=452',0,'page','',0),(453,1,'2015-10-07 08:55:19','2015-10-07 08:55:19','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=432]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=436]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=439]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=444]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=446]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=449]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:55:19','2015-10-07 08:55:19','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(454,1,'2015-10-07 08:57:45','2015-10-07 08:57:45','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>World View</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>The change in today’s youth is often thought to be a result of social media and the Internet, but YTN’s study of youth led us to a different conclusion.  We believe the explosion of social media is a response to a shift in the mindset or worldview of our younger generations.  Worldview can be a nebulous concept and may best be described as how one perceives and evaluates their surroundings, information, and relationships, and also how one draws conclusions.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today, most adults, parents and leaders have a fundamentally modern view of the world,<br/>They evaluate their world through a factual or more knowledge-based paradigm.   Moderns tend to value knowledge, evidence, science, and higher education.  In short they gather information or facts to make decisions for themselves.  As a result moderns are more performance driven.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>A significant shift has occurred in the fundamental way young people view their world.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today a majority of youth has a post-modern worldview.  They view and evaluate their existence based upon very different criteria than their parents. Post-moderns value authenticity, community and experience more than knowledge, facts and evidence.  As they gain information, they do not draw conclusions based solely on that information. Instead that information is processed through a more relational, experiential grid.  They take the information and assess whether it will work for and within their community and family.  They assess its authenticity or truthfulness based on an experience that either confirms that the knowledge works or does not work.  Post-moderns are fundamentally skeptical of knowledge and truth given the barrage of often conflicting information our “modern culture” has created and is thrown at them at a volume far greater than what we experienced growing up.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>As a result post-moderns seek authentic relationships and community; they are more fundamental needs than knowledge and information. The explosion of social media makes sense as youth seek to create a sense of community in a culture where neighborhoods and community have to a large degree broken down.  Other factors that contribute to the explosion are the increasing involvement of adults in youths’ lives (it is much greater than in the past) and youths’ inescapable feeling that they cannot be honest with adults.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The impact of these differences on the parent adolescent relationship should not be overlooked.  A parent’s information, knowledge-based approach is frustrating to their kids who by contrast want to have healthy, authentic relationships within their family that validate the information, values and beliefs parents are employing to try to shape their kids.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','World View','','inherit','closed','closed','','452-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:57:45','2015-10-07 08:57:45','',452,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/452-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(455,1,'2015-10-07 08:58:19','2015-10-07 08:58:19','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=432]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=436]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=439]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=444]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=446]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=449]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=452]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 08:58:19','2015-10-07 08:58:19','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(456,1,'2015-10-07 09:05:48','2015-10-07 09:05:48','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Youth Ministry Culture</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Because of the shift in the worldview of today’s youth,Christian Schools, clubs and youth groups can no longer overlook the culture of their group.  The mindset shift means that youth will be more influenced by the nature, experience and authenticity of the group than the information and programs thatare presentedseeking to make a difference in their life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In our research YTN found that the dual life culture, which is so prevalent among youth today,can undermine everything we are attempting to accomplish in young peoples’ lives.  When youth come and hear our teaching and truth but find it subverted by the dual livesof a majority of the participating youth, the culture of the group counters our efforts.  This generation evaluates information based on their experience.  If the culture among our students counters our message, they will act the part in order to have the social scene they desire.  However,most will dismiss the validity of the teaching we are attempting to build into their lives because their experience says it does not work.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>There is some good news.Through YTN’s research and work to help youth organizations address the student culture of their groups, we have found a vast majority of youth disapprove of the dual life culture in their organizations even though they may be participating in it to have the community they value.  They find the dual life inconsistent with their desire for authenticity as well as frustrating as it often leads to hurt within the group.  Because of the unwritten code of silence and the gulf that exists between youth and adults today, they believe there is no safe way to address the frustrating reality of the student culture in their group.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s <a href=\"permalink id=405\">Reboot</a> program offers students the opportunity to not just address the culture but to redefine it through an interactive Socratic method that helps them identify what they truly desire for their group.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Youth Ministry Culture','','publish','closed','closed','','youth-ministry-culture','','','2015-10-08 09:59:54','2015-10-08 09:59:54','',461,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=456',0,'page','',0),(457,1,'2015-10-07 09:05:48','2015-10-07 09:05:48','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Youth Ministry Culture</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Because of the shift in the worldview of today’s youth,Christian Schools, clubs and youth groups can no longer overlook the culture of their group.  The mindset shift means that youth will be more influenced by the nature, experience and authenticity of the group than the information and programs thatare presentedseeking to make a difference in their life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In our research YTN found that the dual life culture, which is so prevalent among youth today,can undermine everything we are attempting to accomplish in young peoples’ lives.  When youth come and hear our teaching and truth but find it subverted by the dual livesof a majority of the participating youth, the culture of the group counters our efforts.  This generation evaluates information based on their experience.  If the culture among our students counters our message, they will act the part in order to have the social scene they desire.  However,most will dismiss the validity of the teaching we are attempting to build into their lives because their experience says it does not work.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>There is some good news.Through YTN’s research and work to help youth organizations address the student culture of their groups, we have found a vast majority of youth disapprove of the dual life culture in their organizations even though they may be participating in it to have the community they value.  They find the dual life inconsistent with their desire for authenticity as well as frustrating as it often leads to hurt within the group.  Because of the unwritten code of silence and the gulf that exists between youth and adults today, they believe there is no safe way to address the frustrating reality of the student culture in their group.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s <a href=\"permalink id=405\">Reboot</a> program offers students the opportunity to not just address the culture but to redefine it through an interactive Socratic method that helps them identify what they truly desire for their group.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Youth Ministry Culture','','inherit','closed','closed','','456-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 09:05:48','2015-10-07 09:05:48','',456,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/456-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(458,1,'2015-10-07 09:06:20','2015-10-07 09:06:20','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Research Introduction[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that were adversely impacting their success, motivation and faith. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven year process seeking to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed. To date YTN has interviewed 250 adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of thirty to sixty adolescents ages ten to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously unconsidered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.  YTN’s research unearthed many insights regarding the factors that impact the development, faith, motivation and success of youth.  The weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is why you will find ranges of percentages as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific percentages. Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=432]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=436]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=439]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=444]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=446]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=449]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=452]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=456]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Parents','','inherit','closed','closed','','425-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 09:06:20','2015-10-07 09:06:20','',425,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/425-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(459,1,'2015-10-07 09:11:41','2015-10-07 09:11:41','[et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"off\" transparent_background=\"off\" background_color=\"#a1a1a1\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" make_equal=\"off\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\"][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"30\" padding_bottom_1=\"30\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Video Player\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_margin=\"20||20|\"]\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/129256819\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"off\"][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"on\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"on\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_top_2=\"40\" padding_top_3=\"40\" custom_padding=\"40|20\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"1st image\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]<a href=\"[permalink id=425]\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"[permalink id=38]wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" alt=\"1imgcol\" width=\"330\" height=\"219\"></a>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"27\" text_text_color=\"#283c90\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" text_font=\"|on|||\" custom_padding=\"10|||10\"]<a href=\"[permalink id=425]\">PARENTS</a>[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20|10||10\" text_text_color=\"#000000\"]\r\n\r\nLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. 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Below are the key findings from YTN’s ongoing research with adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics:</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=430]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Adolescent Brain Development</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=432]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=436]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=439]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=444]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life of Adolescents</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=446]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Faith Loss</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=449]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=452]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">World View</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=456]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Youth Ministry Culture</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Christian Parent Area Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','461-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 09:49:25','2015-10-07 09:49:25','',461,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/461-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(464,1,'2015-10-07 09:50:28','2015-10-07 09:50:28','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Christian Parent Area Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"center\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Today’s Christian Parents are Looking for Answers![/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Every parent wants to remain close to their kids as they grow up, but balancing this with the desire to see them succeed, keep their faith and avoid potential pitfalls is a challenge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today many of the answers parents find are recycled from simpler times when neighborhoods had true neighbors and the Internet and social media did not exist.  These answers are no longer as effective as they once were.  YTN’s extensive research has explained why and pointed to different solutions.  </p>\r\n\r\n<p>The key is altering our approach as parents to align with the changes that occur with our kids 18 months prior to puberty, as early as age eight for girls and nine for boys.   These changes are a result of the new phase in brain development that results in a decrease in activity in the frontal lobe of their brains. 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These answers are no longer as effective as they once were.  YTN’s extensive research has explained why and pointed to different solutions.  </p>\r\n\r\n<p>The key is altering our approach as parents to align with the changes that occur with our kids 18 months prior to puberty, as early as age eight for girls and nine for boys.   These changes are a result of the new phase in brain development that results in a decrease in activity in the frontal lobe of their brains. 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use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20|10||10\" text_text_color=\"#000000\"]<p>Discover the difference YTN’s Research based programs can make in your students’ lives.  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Donec sodales sagittis magna.\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Read more\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"right\" text_font_size=\"16\" text_text_color=\"#000000\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" text_font=\"|on|||\" custom_padding=\"|20px||\"]\r\n\r\nRead More.....\r\n\r\n[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"IMAGE\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"40px||20px|\"]<a href=\"#\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79\" src=\"[permalink id=38]wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1imgcol.jpg\" alt=\"1imgcol\" width=\"330\" height=\"219\"></a>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Home','','inherit','closed','closed','','38-revision-v1','','','2015-10-07 09:55:18','2015-10-07 09:55:18','',38,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/07/38-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(467,1,'2015-10-08 04:01:54','2015-10-08 04:01:54','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Schools</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"left\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Today schools are seeking creative ways to address a broad range of factors impacting their students.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Every school district desires to see their students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, a genesis point for the disillusionment we found far too often in adolescents that led to escape behaviors and motivation issues.  The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs schools can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n1. The Secrets of Influential Parenting: helps parents make appropriate adjustments\r\n2. It’s Your Life: addresses students’ internal motivation and belief issues\r\n3. Reboot: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to\r\n3. 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What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=471]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=474]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=478]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=481]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=484]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=487]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=491]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=494]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of  Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','publish','closed','closed','','research','','','2015-10-08 09:42:25','2015-10-08 09:42:25','',414,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=468',0,'page','',0),(469,1,'2015-10-08 04:06:39','2015-10-08 04:06:39','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of  Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','468-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:06:39','2015-10-08 04:06:39','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/468-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(470,1,'2015-10-08 04:11:32','2015-10-08 04:11:32','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Schools</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\"][et_pb_image admin_label=\"Image\" src=\"http://dev.ytn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2imgcol.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" animation=\"left\" sticky=\"off\" align=\"left\" force_fullwidth=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" text_font_size=\"28\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]Today schools are seeking creative ways to address a broad range of factors impacting their students.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Every school district desires to see their students motivated to learn, grow and to move successfully on to college.  Achieving this goal has become more difficult given the complex set of factors that hinder students and adversely affect their motivation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN has invested ten years in qualitative research seeking to decode the factors adversely impacting students’ success, motivation and preparedness for life/college.  The research sought to identify root causes and contributing factors that result in adolescents’ susceptibility to common pitfalls and academic motivation issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Based on this work, YTN developed targeted programs that specifically address the hidden feelings, frustrations, issues and desires youth expressed in the research sessions.  Our understanding led to the creation of powerful interactive sessions that help youth evaluate their lives, situations, and vision for the future as well as empower them to take ownership of their lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The contributing factors pointed to a deeper issue, a genesis point for the disillusionment we found far too often in adolescents that led to escape behaviors and motivation issues.  The genesis point was identified as the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  This breakdown stemmed from parents’ failure to recognize, understand, and adjust to the significant changes in their kids’ brain development, which occurs eighteen months prior to puberty.  As a result distance and friction developed in their relationship causing a loss of influence on the part of parents in their kids’ lives.  YTN\'s research found that such a breakdown was not inevitable.  It could easily be avoided when parents made appropriate adjustments in their approach.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our work resulted in the development of four programs schools can leverage to prevent the factors that cause many adolescents to struggle in the crucial adolescent years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n1. <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Secrets of Influential Parenting</a>: helps parents make appropriate adjustments\r\n2. <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">It’s Your Life</a>: addresses students’ internal motivation and belief issues\r\n3. <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Reboot</a>: addresses the dual life culture students hate but fall prey to\r\n4. <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Succeed</a>: addresses the unexpected challenges of the College/Career Transition\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">YTN\'s School Partnership Program</a> that makes it feasible for school districts to leverage these preventive programs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"[permalink id=468]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Research</a>: Review YTNs findings from its extensive interaction with thousands of adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Partnership Program</a>: Make leveraging YTNs’ resources feasible with our partnership program.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parent Programs</a>: Learn about “Influential Parenting” and how it empowers parents to change the lives and motivation of their adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Culture</a>: Students need a venue to address the harmful dual life culture that permeates our youth culture today. Youth find a voice with Reboot.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>: Explore a creative, interactive, and restorative way to draw out students’ internal motivation that will last, “It’s Your Life!”</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College and Career Transition</a>: Far too many high performing students struggle in their transition to college and career.   When 28 % of all college freshmen do not make it through their first year of college, we need to help them understand the change, challenges, and stress that snare so many unsuspecting graduates. Succeed does just that!</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Schools','','inherit','closed','closed','','414-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:11:32','2015-10-08 04:11:32','',414,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/414-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(471,1,'2015-10-08 04:20:38','2015-10-08 04:20:38','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Adolescent Brain Development</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>According to National Geographic, Dr Amen, and UCLA, changes occur in the adolescent brain 18 months prior to puberty (as early as eight for girls and nine for boys) when the hormones that lead to puberty are released.  These hormones usher in a phase of brain development where synapses are created between different areas of the brain in its back lobes.  This change leads to many of the behavior and performance challenges with adolescents as they become more forgetful, emotional and oppositional.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s qualitative research concluded that the predominant leadership style and parenting approaches employed today do not align well with the changes occurring in youths’ brains.  As a result our desire to assist adolescents through such approaches can be counter productive and lead to increased distance with the adolescents we seek to influence. We inadvertently trigger their oppositional nature resulting in push back, dismissal, and a loss of influence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our research and coaching with parents and adolescents found that parents tend to interpret the changes they see in their sweet kids as issues they need to fix.  They attempt to do so using the strategies they employed with their kids who were less emotional and oppositional than adolescents.  This then results in the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  Parents often do not perceive the breakdown as youth quickly learn to act a part for their parents to keep the relative peace.  Rather the breakdown takes on the form of an emotional divorce on the part of youth from their parents.  As a result, the predominant influence in their lives becomes their friends and the youth culture.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Aligning our approach with the changes that occur in the adolescent brain can bring about powerful changes in the relationship, motivation, and influence we have in students’ lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Watch Session One of the Secrets of Influential Parenting for free today <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">link to sign up.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Have the Holly endorsement video, adolescent brain video and dual life video on this page.</span></p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Adolescent Brain Development','','publish','closed','closed','','adolescent-brain-development','','','2015-10-08 09:48:27','2015-10-08 09:48:27','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=471',0,'page','',0),(472,1,'2015-10-08 04:20:38','2015-10-08 04:20:38','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Adolescent Brain Development</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>According to National Geographic, Dr Amen, and UCLA, changes occur in the adolescent brain 18 months prior to puberty (as early as eight for girls and nine for boys) when the hormones that lead to puberty are released.  These hormones usher in a phase of brain development where synapses are created between different areas of the brain in its back lobes.  This change leads to many of the behavior and performance challenges with adolescents as they become more forgetful, emotional and oppositional.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s qualitative research concluded that the predominant leadership style and parenting approaches employed today do not align well with the changes occurring in youths’ brains.  As a result our desire to assist adolescents through such approaches can be counter productive and lead to increased distance with the adolescents we seek to influence. We inadvertently trigger their oppositional nature resulting in push back, dismissal, and a loss of influence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Our research and coaching with parents and adolescents found that parents tend to interpret the changes they see in their sweet kids as issues they need to fix.  They attempt to do so using the strategies they employed with their kids who were less emotional and oppositional than adolescents.  This then results in the commonly accepted breakdown in the parent adolescent relationship.  Parents often do not perceive the breakdown as youth quickly learn to act a part for their parents to keep the relative peace.  Rather the breakdown takes on the form of an emotional divorce on the part of youth from their parents.  As a result, the predominant influence in their lives becomes their friends and the youth culture.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Aligning our approach with the changes that occur in the adolescent brain can bring about powerful changes in the relationship, motivation, and influence we have in students’ lives.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Watch Session One of the Secrets of Influential Parenting for free today <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">link to sign up.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Have the Holly endorsement video, adolescent brain video and dual life video on this page.</span></p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Adolescent Brain Development','','inherit','closed','closed','','471-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:20:38','2015-10-08 04:20:38','',471,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/471-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(473,1,'2015-10-08 04:21:10','2015-10-08 04:21:10','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=471]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of  Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','468-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:21:10','2015-10-08 04:21:10','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/468-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(474,1,'2015-10-08 04:32:16','2015-10-08 04:32:16','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Academic Motivation</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Our research and coaching sessions with adolescents and their parents led to some surprising conclusions:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. Lack of Goals:<br/>Significantly less than 30% of youth had goals for their own for their lives and academics.  Most felt pressure or had performance expectations from their parents that left them feeling like they consistently fell short.  As a result many youth were frustrated and had little internal desire to achieve good grades.  The pressure and expectations contributed to the very motivation issues parents were trying to address through expectations and external pressure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. Lack of vision:<br/>More prevalent with adolescent males in high school, but also present with young women, was the lack of vision for the future.  Absent a vision or direction for their lives moving forward, youth believed there was no reason to invest in today’s schoolwork.   Students with a vision for their future pushed through boring and irrelevant classes better than those who were living only for today.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>3. Adult Approach Disconnect:<br/>Due to the changes that occur in the adolescent brain, the approach parents and leaders have been trained to use regarding homework, discipline, and academic motivation often has an inverse effect.   Such an approach frequently triggers the oppositional nature of the adolescent brain producing a defensive or opposite outcome.   Once triggered, youth focus on the frustration and injustice of their parents’ approach and lack of belief in them; they do not reflect and learn from their failures, but instead brood about the situations.  Many of the youth we interact with who have significant motivation issues arrive at a point of not caring.  This, in fact, is a natural defense mechanism that protects them from the sense of falling short and failure.  If they do not care or make an effort then the outcome does not impact their self-perspective nearly as much and helps them buffer themselves from the predicted response of their parents and other adults. In short they grow numb.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>4.  They Do Desire to Succeed<br/>Even youth that have given up still have the desire to succeed.  In our adolescent coaching and research we frequently have the opportunity to talk with youth that are greatly struggling.  In every case, once through their defense barrier, we find these youth still desire to succeed, but have often experienced a complete crash of their internal confidence and belief in their ability to succeed.  Thus, why try?  These youth often turn to other escapes that mask their sense of failure.  Escape takes on many forms ranging from social media and video games where they escape into an artificial reality, feel accepted and successful to pornography and substance abuse that provide temporary relief from their self doubt, inability to please their parents. and the pain of failure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To address deeper motivation issues we need to come alongside our kids and help rebuild their confidence one step at a time by drawing on their internal desire to succeed.  It is critical that we do not fall back into the old approaches and pressure that trigger opposition and bring back to the surface the pool of negative feelings that lead to demotivation.  Youth in such a positions are apt to be defensive as they cannot take one more negative about themselves and will quickly revert to the motivation patterns already in place.  At the core of the Secrets of Influential Parenting is a perspective approach and set of tools that help parents alter their approach.  Parents learn to draw upon internal desire rather than rely on the external motivation tactics they have been raised to believe are the best way to parent but backfire with this generation of youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Academic Motivation','','publish','closed','closed','','academic-motivation','','','2015-10-08 09:47:48','2015-10-08 09:47:48','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=474',0,'page','',0),(475,1,'2015-10-08 04:29:06','2015-10-08 04:29:06','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Title</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]Content[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','YouthOrg Sub-pages','','publish','closed','closed','','youthorg-sub-pages','','','2015-10-08 04:29:06','2015-10-08 04:29:06','',0,'http://dev.ytn.org/et_pb_layout/youthorg-sub-pages/',0,'et_pb_layout','',0),(476,1,'2015-10-08 04:32:16','2015-10-08 04:32:16','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Academic Motivation</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Our research and coaching sessions with adolescents and their parents led to some surprising conclusions:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>1. Lack of Goals:<br/>Significantly less than 30% of youth had goals for their own for their lives and academics.  Most felt pressure or had performance expectations from their parents that left them feeling like they consistently fell short.  As a result many youth were frustrated and had little internal desire to achieve good grades.  The pressure and expectations contributed to the very motivation issues parents were trying to address through expectations and external pressure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. Lack of vision:<br/>More prevalent with adolescent males in high school, but also present with young women, was the lack of vision for the future.  Absent a vision or direction for their lives moving forward, youth believed there was no reason to invest in today’s schoolwork.   Students with a vision for their future pushed through boring and irrelevant classes better than those who were living only for today.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>3. Adult Approach Disconnect:<br/>Due to the changes that occur in the adolescent brain, the approach parents and leaders have been trained to use regarding homework, discipline, and academic motivation often has an inverse effect.   Such an approach frequently triggers the oppositional nature of the adolescent brain producing a defensive or opposite outcome.   Once triggered, youth focus on the frustration and injustice of their parents’ approach and lack of belief in them; they do not reflect and learn from their failures, but instead brood about the situations.  Many of the youth we interact with who have significant motivation issues arrive at a point of not caring.  This, in fact, is a natural defense mechanism that protects them from the sense of falling short and failure.  If they do not care or make an effort then the outcome does not impact their self-perspective nearly as much and helps them buffer themselves from the predicted response of their parents and other adults. In short they grow numb.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>4.  They Do Desire to Succeed<br/>Even youth that have given up still have the desire to succeed.  In our adolescent coaching and research we frequently have the opportunity to talk with youth that are greatly struggling.  In every case, once through their defense barrier, we find these youth still desire to succeed, but have often experienced a complete crash of their internal confidence and belief in their ability to succeed.  Thus, why try?  These youth often turn to other escapes that mask their sense of failure.  Escape takes on many forms ranging from social media and video games where they escape into an artificial reality, feel accepted and successful to pornography and substance abuse that provide temporary relief from their self doubt, inability to please their parents. and the pain of failure.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To address deeper motivation issues we need to come alongside our kids and help rebuild their confidence one step at a time by drawing on their internal desire to succeed.  It is critical that we do not fall back into the old approaches and pressure that trigger opposition and bring back to the surface the pool of negative feelings that lead to demotivation.  Youth in such a positions are apt to be defensive as they cannot take one more negative about themselves and will quickly revert to the motivation patterns already in place.  At the core of the Secrets of Influential Parenting is a perspective approach and set of tools that help parents alter their approach.  Parents learn to draw upon internal desire rather than rely on the external motivation tactics they have been raised to believe are the best way to parent but backfire with this generation of youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Academic Motivation','','inherit','closed','closed','','474-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:32:16','2015-10-08 04:32:16','',474,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/474-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(477,1,'2015-10-08 04:33:07','2015-10-08 04:33:07','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=471]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=474]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of  Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','468-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:33:07','2015-10-08 04:33:07','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/468-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(478,1,'2015-10-08 04:38:55','2015-10-08 04:38:55','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>College Transition</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research echoes that of UCLA and Ohio State; youth are less prepared for life on their own or college than at any previous point in time.   Even those with high academic achievement often struggle once on a college campus.  In our interviews with thousands of high school seniors and college freshmen, YTN uncovered a number of important factors that lead to the 28% dropout rate of freshmen. The more disturbing reality from YTN’s research was the fact that over half of the students experienced struggles academically, socially or financially that their parents new little or nothing about.  In our first set of interviews we found:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n&bull; A young woman who was sexually assaulted and contracted an STD in her first week on campus\r\n&bull; A young man who awoke in the hospital having almost died from alcohol poisoning\r\n&bull; A young woman, a junior in college, who was trapped in an abusive relationship with her boy friend stemming back to her first week on campus\r\n&bull; A young man who got himself in trouble financially and took two jobs leading to academic probation\r\n&bull; A valedictorian who thought college would be easy and could not believe how much she was struggling academically in college\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s Findings:<br/>1. Over 80% of high school seniors felt leaving home and the transition to college would be easy.  Over 70% of college freshmen said the transition was way more difficult than they anticipated. This lack of clearly perceiving the challenges set college freshmen up to encounter difficult transition issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. Students’ lack of perception of the challenges, and associated stress, change and loneliness made them prone to encountering culture shock.  Culture shock is a physiological response to stress and change that opens them to bond with foreign culture very quickly.  This means that the first 24 to 72 hours on campus, before classes even begin, are critical to the long-term success and health of our kids.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. Students’ lack of perception of the challenges, and associated stress, change and loneliness made them prone to encountering culture shock.  Culture shock is a physiological response to stress and change that opens them to bond with foreign culture very quickly.  This means that the first 24 to 72 hours on campus, before classes even begin, are critical to the long-term success and health of our kids.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>4. The friends made and the activities adopted in the first days on campus often set the course for academic, and financial achievement in the first semester to year on campus.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>5. Students who did not have their own goals in place before college related to a future career, their academic achievement, and financial management were far more likely to encounter issues in the transition.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>If UCLA and Ohio State along with YTN’s research consistently find that youth are less prepared for life on their own today and a majority of youth are leading dual lives and anxious for freedom from their parents, we need to reexamine the approach to parenting we employ through the adolescent years.  This conclusion combined with all of YTN’s other research led to the development and testing of a different approach that is now called the Secrets of Influential Parenting.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','College Transition','','publish','closed','closed','','college-transition','','','2015-10-08 09:48:51','2015-10-08 09:48:51','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=478',0,'page','',0),(479,1,'2015-10-08 04:38:55','2015-10-08 04:38:55','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>College Transition</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research echoes that of UCLA and Ohio State; youth are less prepared for life on their own or college than at any previous point in time.   Even those with high academic achievement often struggle once on a college campus.  In our interviews with thousands of high school seniors and college freshmen, YTN uncovered a number of important factors that lead to the 28% dropout rate of freshmen. The more disturbing reality from YTN’s research was the fact that over half of the students experienced struggles academically, socially or financially that their parents new little or nothing about.  In our first set of interviews we found:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n&bull; A young woman who was sexually assaulted and contracted an STD in her first week on campus\r\n&bull; A young man who awoke in the hospital having almost died from alcohol poisoning\r\n&bull; A young woman, a junior in college, who was trapped in an abusive relationship with her boy friend stemming back to her first week on campus\r\n&bull; A young man who got himself in trouble financially and took two jobs leading to academic probation\r\n&bull; A valedictorian who thought college would be easy and could not believe how much she was struggling academically in college\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s Findings:<br/>1. Over 80% of high school seniors felt leaving home and the transition to college would be easy.  Over 70% of college freshmen said the transition was way more difficult than they anticipated. This lack of clearly perceiving the challenges set college freshmen up to encounter difficult transition issues.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. Students’ lack of perception of the challenges, and associated stress, change and loneliness made them prone to encountering culture shock.  Culture shock is a physiological response to stress and change that opens them to bond with foreign culture very quickly.  This means that the first 24 to 72 hours on campus, before classes even begin, are critical to the long-term success and health of our kids.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2. Students’ lack of perception of the challenges, and associated stress, change and loneliness made them prone to encountering culture shock.  Culture shock is a physiological response to stress and change that opens them to bond with foreign culture very quickly.  This means that the first 24 to 72 hours on campus, before classes even begin, are critical to the long-term success and health of our kids.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>4. The friends made and the activities adopted in the first days on campus often set the course for academic, and financial achievement in the first semester to year on campus.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>5. Students who did not have their own goals in place before college related to a future career, their academic achievement, and financial management were far more likely to encounter issues in the transition.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>If UCLA and Ohio State along with YTN’s research consistently find that youth are less prepared for life on their own today and a majority of youth are leading dual lives and anxious for freedom from their parents, we need to reexamine the approach to parenting we employ through the adolescent years.  This conclusion combined with all of YTN’s other research led to the development and testing of a different approach that is now called the Secrets of Influential Parenting.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','College Transition','','inherit','closed','closed','','478-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:38:55','2015-10-08 04:38:55','',478,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/478-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(480,1,'2015-10-08 04:39:52','2015-10-08 04:39:52','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=471]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=474]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=478]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of  Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','468-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:39:52','2015-10-08 04:39:52','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/468-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(481,1,'2015-10-08 04:51:00','2015-10-08 04:51:00','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Depression</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Depression is on the rise among adolescents.  Today about <strong>twenty percent of adolescents</strong> will experience depression before they reach adulthood. (Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General).  Many more suffer some of the symptoms of depression.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In YTN’s research and coaching we have found that a lack of true understanding of depression on the part of parents and adults can limit the ability of youth to escape depression. Having encountered depression I know first hand how those who attempt to help who do not understand depression can leave a depressed person feeling more down on themselves and thus more trapped within it.  Watch the Video My Encounter with Depression in the Parent Portal to have a better understanding of what your child may be encountering.  Understanding and giving credence to their lack of motivation or desire to do anything is essential rather than the natural desire to pressure them to get moving.  Such an approach only adds to their sense of falling short and failure.  Listening, encouraging and sharing, without telling them the way they see things is not right or giving correction, allows youth to hear themselves and begin to assess their thoughts and feelings.  When they ask, “What do you think?” be positive in your reply.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In many of the adolescents with significant depression whom we have worked with, one of the main roots of their depression stemmed from a collapse of their internal belief in themselves and their abilities.  They had become so negative internally about themselves that it altered their perspective of everything around them.  Any youth who is encountering significant signs of depression <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">link to mayo clinic signs of depression</span> should seek the help of their physician and or psychiatrist who can prescribe medications to assist. One of the questions we like to ask when meeting with youth is if they feel pressure, heaviness or a physical ache in their chest. Depression will often manifest itself with just such an ache.  At times it can be so significant that individuals have gone to the hospital believing they are having a heart attack.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Adults can do a great deal to help youth address their depression by focusing on what is really going on inside rather than on their performance. This is a clear shift from external pressure to perform to targeting their internal beliefs and desires. While this is something we recommend and train parents to do with their adolescent, it is critical with depressed kids.  This approach allows for more open/real communication and helps parents access the discouragement that has built up within their kids, often without any indication.  Watch Tapping the Discouragement In Our Kids’ Hearts and some of the related story videos in the parent portal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Tapping discouragement is accomplished by giving adolescents a safe place to dump and evaluate their internal thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Youth who have this type of relationship draw closer to the one listening and encouraging them. This approach can be instrumental in helping an adolescent escape depression.   Depressed youth need to once again feel close and connected to others and especially their parents.  Every child wants to please their parents; at times depression can result when youth come to the conclusion that this is not possible.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today, more than ever, our adolescents need to feel heard, understood, believed in and trusted.  Understanding this and targeting the internals rather than behavior and performance is at the heart of the Secrets of Influential Parenting, which can bring about relationships that increase parents’ access and influence in their kids’ lives.  The result is more open, positive and motivated youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Depression','','publish','closed','closed','','depression','','','2015-10-08 09:49:15','2015-10-08 09:49:15','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=481',0,'page','',0),(482,1,'2015-10-08 04:51:00','2015-10-08 04:51:00','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Depression</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>Depression is on the rise among adolescents.  Today about <strong>twenty percent of adolescents</strong> will experience depression before they reach adulthood. (Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General).  Many more suffer some of the symptoms of depression.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In YTN’s research and coaching we have found that a lack of true understanding of depression on the part of parents and adults can limit the ability of youth to escape depression. Having encountered depression I know first hand how those who attempt to help who do not understand depression can leave a depressed person feeling more down on themselves and thus more trapped within it.  Watch the Video My Encounter with Depression in the Parent Portal to have a better understanding of what your child may be encountering.  Understanding and giving credence to their lack of motivation or desire to do anything is essential rather than the natural desire to pressure them to get moving.  Such an approach only adds to their sense of falling short and failure.  Listening, encouraging and sharing, without telling them the way they see things is not right or giving correction, allows youth to hear themselves and begin to assess their thoughts and feelings.  When they ask, “What do you think?” be positive in your reply.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In many of the adolescents with significant depression whom we have worked with, one of the main roots of their depression stemmed from a collapse of their internal belief in themselves and their abilities.  They had become so negative internally about themselves that it altered their perspective of everything around them.  Any youth who is encountering significant signs of depression <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">link to mayo clinic signs of depression</span> should seek the help of their physician and or psychiatrist who can prescribe medications to assist. One of the questions we like to ask when meeting with youth is if they feel pressure, heaviness or a physical ache in their chest. Depression will often manifest itself with just such an ache.  At times it can be so significant that individuals have gone to the hospital believing they are having a heart attack.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Adults can do a great deal to help youth address their depression by focusing on what is really going on inside rather than on their performance. This is a clear shift from external pressure to perform to targeting their internal beliefs and desires. While this is something we recommend and train parents to do with their adolescent, it is critical with depressed kids.  This approach allows for more open/real communication and helps parents access the discouragement that has built up within their kids, often without any indication.  Watch Tapping the Discouragement In Our Kids’ Hearts and some of the related story videos in the parent portal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Tapping discouragement is accomplished by giving adolescents a safe place to dump and evaluate their internal thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Youth who have this type of relationship draw closer to the one listening and encouraging them. This approach can be instrumental in helping an adolescent escape depression.   Depressed youth need to once again feel close and connected to others and especially their parents.  Every child wants to please their parents; at times depression can result when youth come to the conclusion that this is not possible.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today, more than ever, our adolescents need to feel heard, understood, believed in and trusted.  Understanding this and targeting the internals rather than behavior and performance is at the heart of the Secrets of Influential Parenting, which can bring about relationships that increase parents’ access and influence in their kids’ lives.  The result is more open, positive and motivated youth.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Depression','','inherit','closed','closed','','481-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:51:00','2015-10-08 04:51:00','',481,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/481-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(483,1,'2015-10-08 04:54:24','2015-10-08 04:54:24','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=471]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=474]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=478]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=481]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of  Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','468-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:54:24','2015-10-08 04:54:24','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/468-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(484,1,'2015-10-08 04:58:59','2015-10-08 04:58:59','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Dual Life of Adolescents</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research found that a majority of youth were leading a dual life, to varying degrees, with adults and especially parents.  Unfortunately their dual lives tended to lean towards the more serious end of the spectrum. Depending upon the community, school or youth organization, the range of youth leading dual lives fell between 65% and 90%.  The dual life, as defined by the youth in our sessions, is knowing how to act and what to say to adults and parents to keep things calm and then leading a very different life when apart from these influences.  While the dual life existed when many of us grew up, it was not as prevalent or as dark according to the youth we have interviewed.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The advent of technology, the busy schedule of parents, and the dramatic shift in the worldview of today’s adolescents have led to an explosion of young people working together to lead dual lives when apart from adults. Their strategies are fairly simple and straightforward and accomplish the goal of getting around the rules or restrictions of adults and parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This dual life begins with small compromises, which lead to larger and larger compromises as they realize they can get away with leading a dual life. As communication with their parents decreases, youth grow more distant from adults in general and develop a false sense of confidence in their own judgment.   One might expect that with such large percentages of youth leading dual lives that the issues would be so prevalent more parents would be aware of their kid’s dual life than they are today.  This is because the dual life is held in check by the fact that youth are around their parents or other adults a majority of time and can only escape into dual life activities a small percentage of the time.  The dual life is often held in check until youth leave home for work, the military or college.  This is one of the reasons why so many youth struggle in the transition to life on their own.  (Being unprepared and the belief that leaving home will be easy were discussed in the college transition research.)  Youth are free from the watchful eyes and control of parents where the dual life can take over quickly in the first days upon a college campus, in the military, or life on their own.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The root of the dual life appears to stem from parents’ misunderstanding and approach to the sudden changes in their kids’ attitudes and behavior as they approach adolescence.   These changes are caused by dramatic shifts within the adolescent brain that accompany puberty.  Parental response to these changes often leads to unresolved issues and increased conflict that causes youth to distance themselves from parents and begin to hide their failures. This is the first step toward a deceptive dual life.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Dual Life of Adolescents','','publish','closed','closed','','the-dual-life-of-adolescents','','','2015-10-08 09:49:40','2015-10-08 09:49:40','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=484',0,'page','',0),(485,1,'2015-10-08 04:58:59','2015-10-08 04:58:59','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Dual Life of Adolescents</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN’s research found that a majority of youth were leading a dual life, to varying degrees, with adults and especially parents.  Unfortunately their dual lives tended to lean towards the more serious end of the spectrum. Depending upon the community, school or youth organization, the range of youth leading dual lives fell between 65% and 90%.  The dual life, as defined by the youth in our sessions, is knowing how to act and what to say to adults and parents to keep things calm and then leading a very different life when apart from these influences.  While the dual life existed when many of us grew up, it was not as prevalent or as dark according to the youth we have interviewed.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The advent of technology, the busy schedule of parents, and the dramatic shift in the worldview of today’s adolescents have led to an explosion of young people working together to lead dual lives when apart from adults. Their strategies are fairly simple and straightforward and accomplish the goal of getting around the rules or restrictions of adults and parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This dual life begins with small compromises, which lead to larger and larger compromises as they realize they can get away with leading a dual life. As communication with their parents decreases, youth grow more distant from adults in general and develop a false sense of confidence in their own judgment.   One might expect that with such large percentages of youth leading dual lives that the issues would be so prevalent more parents would be aware of their kid’s dual life than they are today.  This is because the dual life is held in check by the fact that youth are around their parents or other adults a majority of time and can only escape into dual life activities a small percentage of the time.  The dual life is often held in check until youth leave home for work, the military or college.  This is one of the reasons why so many youth struggle in the transition to life on their own.  (Being unprepared and the belief that leaving home will be easy were discussed in the college transition research.)  Youth are free from the watchful eyes and control of parents where the dual life can take over quickly in the first days upon a college campus, in the military, or life on their own.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The root of the dual life appears to stem from parents’ misunderstanding and approach to the sudden changes in their kids’ attitudes and behavior as they approach adolescence.   These changes are caused by dramatic shifts within the adolescent brain that accompany puberty.  Parental response to these changes often leads to unresolved issues and increased conflict that causes youth to distance themselves from parents and begin to hide their failures. This is the first step toward a deceptive dual life.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Dual Life of Adolescents','','inherit','closed','closed','','484-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:58:59','2015-10-08 04:58:59','',484,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/484-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(486,1,'2015-10-08 04:59:16','2015-10-08 04:59:16','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>Research</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>YTN has conducted qualitative research with over 3,500 youth to unearth the factors that adversely impact the success and motivation of our youth. What was initially thought to be a simple undertaking developed into a seven-year process as we sought to identify the root cause of the myriad of issues youth disclosed that were negatively impacting their motivation and success.  To date YTN has interviewed over three hundred fifty adolescents on camera and conducted over fifty group sessions of twenty to sixty adolescents ages fourteen to nineteen.  The strength of qualitative research is found in its ability to identify previously not considered factors based on in depth interaction with the audience.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>YTN’s research unearthed many insights into the factors impacting the development, motivation, and success of youth.  However, the weakness of qualitative research is its inability to give statistically valid percentages related to these issues.  This is the reason you will find ranges or references to percentages, as well as summary wording like a majority or vast majority of youth as opposed to specific numbers related to these factors.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Research Topics</strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=471]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Adolescent Brain</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=474]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Academic Motivation</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=478]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">College Transition</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=481]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Depression</a>\r\n<a href=\"[permalink id=484]\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">The Dual Life</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Parental Relationship</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Student Body Culture</a>\r\n<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Worldview of  Today\'s Adolescents</a>\r\n</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','Research','','inherit','closed','closed','','468-revision-v1','','','2015-10-08 04:59:16','2015-10-08 04:59:16','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/2015/10/08/468-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(487,1,'2015-10-08 05:09:21','2015-10-08 05:09:21','[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"on\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"off\" make_equal=\"off\" padding_top_1=\"40\" padding_bottom_1=\"20\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" text_font_size=\"52\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"10||10|\" text_text_color=\"#666666\"]<strong>The Parental Relationship</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Content\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\" custom_padding=\"20||20|\"]<p>It is no great surprise that a majority of the youth we interviewed were frustrated at one or more levels with their parents.  Yet some surprising findings came from our interviews with those teens who had made good transitions to life on their own.  A significant majority of these youth still had the desire to please their parents intact.   As we pondered this, it made sense. Youth who wanted to please their parents had a reason to avoid the activities that would pull them off course in the transition.  Unfortunately we found this to be the case with only a fraction of the youth we interviewed.  By contrast a majority were either looking forward to if not screaming for freedom from their parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>We found that those who made great transitions to life on their own had dramatically different relationships with their parents.  These relationships took on a more peer-to-peer or adult-to-adult tone. Confidence and independence had been extended to these youth much earlier by their parents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Another piece of research supported these findings.  Notre Dame University found that 69% of teens wanted more parental involvement in their lives.  This is a finding that many parents would find difficult to believe due to what they experienced with their adolescents.   YTN found that while a majority of youth wanted more parental involvement and a closer relationship with their parents, they believed it was not possible.   While they wanted more closeness and involvement, they sought a different type of involvement and did not think they had the platform to address these issues with their parents. They thought they  would either be misunderstood or worse result in an argument.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Notre Dame Study, combined with our research, calls into the question our cultural conclusion, that no matter what, there will be distance in the relationship and issues during the adolescent years. As a culture we have come to dread the thought of our kids’ becoming adolescents.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This does not need to be the case.  Parents, who have adopted a different view and changed how they engage with their adolescents,  report closer relationships, more influence and 70% to 80% fewer conflicts.   The parent adolescent relationship can be enjoyable, positive, and empowering.  To experience such an outcome we must alter our view of adolescents and align our approach with the reality of the changes that occur within the adolescent brain.  Altering our approach in these years allows our kids to remain connected to us, seek our involvement and maintain their desire to please us which our research indicates is critical if our youth are to avoid the common pitfalls of adolescence.</p>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]','The Parental Relationship','','publish','closed','closed','','the-parental-relationship','','','2015-10-08 09:46:44','2015-10-08 09:46:44','',468,'http://dev.ytn.org/?page_id=487',0,'page','',0),