Shutting Down the Tech
A few years ago, a Harris Poll uncovered some data regarding the attitudes of Gen Z toward technology. Keep in mind that this is the generation born between 1997 and 2012, the first of which could experience the iphone when…
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Girls and the Fears of Growing Up
According to a survey conducted by the Girl Scouts of the USA organization, our girls are feeling a growing amount of anxiety regarding their futures. The survey found that fifty-four percent of girls ages five to thirteen say that the…
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Episode 223: “Purposeful Parenting Summer Series – Rewiring the Rewiring”
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:The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by…
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Social Media and Body Image
If you’ve got any suspicions that social media is increasing the body image pressures our kids feel, your suspicions are correct. An internal study conducted by Meta, the parent company of Instagram, found that the algorithms were pointing users who…
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Dopamine and Digital Addiction
In a recent interview with NPR about her new book, “Dopamine Kids”, Dr. Michealeen Doucleff, spoke about the tricks and tools that tech companies use to hijack the brains and dopamine systems of our kids. Her book offers up a…
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Episode 222: “Surgeon General’s Advisory on Screen Time” A Youth Worker Roundtable
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:CPYU Research FellowsJosiah RiosMike TerryJake BierSurgeon General’s Warning on the Harms of Screen UseThe Tech-Wise Family: Everyday…
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Needed – Online Humility
In First John two sixteen we read these words: “For all that is in the world – the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life – is not from the Father but is…
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Kids and Surveillance Capitalism
One of the great concerns regarding the growing presence and use of Artificial Intelligence has been labeled as “surveillance capitalism” by writer Shoshana Zuboff. Zuboff defines surveillance capitalism as a system that claims human experience as free raw material for…
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