Manipulative title I know, but you really should listen to this radio-/pod-cast of the White Horse Inn, A Movie About Teenagers and God. To get the podcast you have to sign up to Oneplace.com. It's free. You can import the podcasts into iTunes. It's free. It's an interview with the co-directors of a new documentary about American teens and God. They can talk about their  iPod, their phone, their IMs, their cars, their music, and their friends, but they can't talk about God. Why not? Because parents and pastors won't teach them anything! Christian Smith has written on a book on this, Soul Searching.

To see another account of what we can and should do for our kids, try this.  According to Smith, our teens are begging for the sort of instruction that have in our catechism. If we start them even earlier, then by the time they are teens they'll have the vocabulary they need to talk about their faith and the faith.