This week's Culture Translator was led off by a stunning survey from Josh Shipp showing...

1) ...what teens lied about most to their parents. Wouldn't you all like to know? We were fascinated by this - mainly because everyone's top guess - sexually related topics - came in second! The most popular topic was, in fact, and sadly so, suicidal thoughts. (31.6% suicide vs. 19.6% sex)

The cause behind this? That's too big of a question to have any succinct answer, but surely most people will give you their thoughts on it. We would answer with another question as to the relationships we're seeing with teens and their parents...teens and their technology...and the expectations placed on most maturing young minds today. What does their everyday world really look like? Do you feel like you have a good grasp of your teen's internal world as well as their external? Dive deep with them today - if you have the trust and relational equity, ask them something challenging but warm today.

2) A good foot in the door to ask them that challenging but warn question is this list of 50 pieces of advice from the elderly: https://thehustle.co/50-Pieces-Of-Life+Advice-From-People-Over-50

This thought came about because retired MLB pitcher Rick Ankiel penned a letter to his younger self https://www.theplayerstribune.com/rick-ankiel-letter-to-my-younger-self-cardinals/ and we wonder if you might consider something similar passed to your children or grandchildren - or even that young fella or lady that sticks out to you in town or church. Give it a try. When presented kindly, not many young minds will actually reject the offer of free truth from someone more experienced.

3) Our letter to you come this week and from now on in our newest project at Axis: Parent Guides. These are simple and clear 5-7ish page walk throughs of difficult and sometimes scary topics in the teen realm that you need to be talking about but just might not feel informed enough about to have brought it up yet in the car or while watching the game. Check them out here: https://axis.org/guides

To date, we've given you an introduction to the world of Snapchat, sexting, eating disorders, and a good window of understanding for teen slang (this year, it will change, you can be sure). They're $1.99 right now since we're just testing them out. That will go up in the future - but before that happens, shoot [email protected] a message with the topics you would want to see us tackle for these parent guides!

Bonus: If you're confused by the phrase ‘Cash Me Outside, Howbow Dah?’ feel free to be. It's an intriguing bit of pop culture that popped up earlier this year and has now resurged with the appearance of Bhad Bhabie. Yep. You've probably heard of her and you don't even know it. Check out this article to learn how an internet star is made today. http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/02/what-is-cash-me-outside-howbow-dat-meme-from-dr-phil.html

If you watched the Facebook version this week, what did you think about the floating video format?! Shoot us a message at [email protected]

As always, you can reach us anytime at axis.org or especially right now find our best newest resources on this material at axis.org/guides