A Parents’ Primer on Social Networking
Social networking is the number one online activity for teenagers. This is not at all surprising as emerging technologies allow developing adolescents increased opportunity to connect with friends at a time in life when they are spreading their wings in…
Read More
Social Media Dangers
Neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina have been working to find an answer to a question many of us have about the relationship between our kids and their use of social media. That question is this: what is social…
Read More
What Social Media Reveals of our Hearts
I recently read a thought-provoking quote from the eighteenth century writer Samuel Johnson. Johnson wrote, “Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk, your mind is on parade.” Immediately after reading these words I thought about what Jesus…
Read More
Episode 165: “How Is Social Media Discipling Kids?” with Chris Martin
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Chris Martin (website) Terms of Service (newsletter) the funnies with Chris…
Read More
Social Media and Mental Health
Over the course of the last several years, those who lament the rapid decline in mental health among children and teens have been working to figure out if there’s any connection between the decline, and the pervasiveness of smartphones and…
Read More
How To Take A Social Media “Purposeful Pause”
Two of social media’s most negative effects are 1) How it can become a time waster for both those who post and those who are consumed with reading posts, and 2) how social media is uniquely suited as a playground…
Read More