Episode 200: “School Cell Phone Policy” with Delaware County Christian School
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Delaware County Christian SchoolMark DixonChad FenleyComing In Out of the Wind: Of Cell Phones, and Learning,…
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Put Down the Phones
With loneliness off the charts for kids in today’s world, we can reasonably conclude that more time looking at screens means less time with others. In her new book “the extinction of experience: being human in a disembodied world”, Christine…
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Episode 199: “Adolescence” a Roundtable Discussion about the Netflix Series
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Adolescence on NetflixCPYU Research FellowsThe Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an…
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Kids Embracing a Smartphone Sabbath
What happens when a group of teenagers go without their smartphones for four weeks? Journalist Decca Aitkenhead found out when she devised an experiment to ban her two sons and eight of their friends from using their phones for four…
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When Do I Get My Kid a Smartphone?
A couple of years I heard some very challenging words from the parents of a ten-year-old girl. They were part of a roomful of parents attending a seminar where I was speaking about kids, technology, and social media. At the…
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Kids and Electronic Addiction
As parents called by God to nurture our children through childhood and into a spiritually healthy adulthood, we have the responsibility to be keenly aware of and sensitive to electronic addiction in all of its forms. We must understand its…
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What is Telephobia?
I’ve had numerous conversations over the years with parents who have received troubling phone calls where they are given bad news about a child. Some parents have told me that after a few of these calls, they become like Pavlov’s…
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