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  • Parenting Video Games

    Parenting Video Games
    Feb 18 2025
    Video games can be amazing, but many young gamers struggle with balancing their digital adventures with their real life opportunities. Today answer three questions every parent needs to ask about video games:
    1. Is this a priority for our family?
    2. Is this game safe, ready, and good?
    3. Does this game line up with our family for: Characters, Violence, Language, Time, Content, and Player Experience
    Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4aWpU0G
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    29 min
  • Tech is the New Cul de Sac. Right?

    Tech is the New Cul de Sac. Right?
    Feb 11 2025
    Making friends in an internet age can be tough. Everyone is online (90+% of teens), and more than half of teens say they are online “almost constantly”. So how do we help our children make good friends?

    We start by teaching them what it means to be a friend: someone who is of equal value, a priority to you, and real world. Then we look at which tech best supports developing these friends, and which tech simply gives us an area of common interest and convenience, but which also makes us expendable rather than exceptional.

    Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3WVS5aj
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    23 min
  • Raising Porn-Resilient Kids

    Raising Porn-Resilient Kids
    Feb 4 2025
    3/4 of teens have seen p*rnography. More than half of them seeing it on accident. This means the battle isn't just with the internet, but with our children's peers. The good news is that we can make a plan, talk it out, and build meaningful hedges that help us raise porn-resilient youth.

    Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3WHsKAO
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    26 min
  • Using the Best Tech Well

    Using the Best Tech Well
    Jan 28 2025
    Our children ask us for new tech all the time, and as loving parents we long to give them good gifts. Yet our children aren't all the same, some can handle more digital responsibility than others, so how do we know when the timing is right for new tech? The answer is simple, if not easy: We give them all the tech that is Safe, Ready, and Good.

    Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4ggDblW
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    36 min
  • Five Ways to Assess Tech Health

    Five Ways to Assess Tech Health
    Jan 21 2025
    In the digital world there are a lot of new ways to do old things: Young people hangout online, play sports via the internet, and get famous for their ideas and influence. So how do we know if this is just the latest phase in life and culture, like the printing press or the bicycle, or if there is something unhealthy in our child's life that needs intervention?This is the beauty of a RESET. We simply look at our child's tech use and ask: "Does this tech impede my child's Relationships & Responsibilities? Emotions? Sleep? Enjoyment? Time?"

    Show Notes: https://bit.ly/40mwAQN
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    27 min
  • Six Questions to Ask When Choosing Tech

    Six Questions to Ask When Choosing Tech
    Jan 14 2025
    Our kids ask us for all kinds of tech, and as loving parents we love to give them good gifts. So how do we know which tech they should use and which they should avoid? Today we'll walk through the six simple questions that will help us choose great tech AND teach our children how to discern which tech is the best for them.

    Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3BVcV2t
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    35 min
  • Starting the New Year with Healthy Tech

    Starting the New Year with Healthy Tech
    Jan 9 2025
    We can ensure our tech is healthy to start the New Year by answering three simple questions:
    1. What type of tech are we using?
    2. What tech is most concerning right now?
    3. What can we do instead?
    Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4h88y2H
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    23 min
  • Best of 2024: Little Choices Matter (Talk to Teens #1)

    Best of 2024: Little Choices Matter (Talk to Teens #1)
    Dec 31 2024
    It's tough being a kid. Being raised in a tech world is even worse. In today's conversation I talk directly to the teens in our lives, and give a reminder that yes, our choices matter, and God's call is even bigger than our mistakes. (Originally recorded May 28, 2024: Episode 227)

    Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3P2kVl9
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    28 min