Device Distraction and Parents
While we should all be concerned about the amount of time our teens are distracted by their smart-phones, a heavy dose of parental self-examination is warranted as well. Recent data from Pew research reveals that parents are now realizing that…
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Social Media and Insecurity
In a day and age when we are rightly concerned about nurturing our children and teens into using God’s good gift of technology in ways that glorify God rather than self, we need to engage in some healthy parental self-evaluation.…
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Social Media Poison
I recently read an informative op-ed piece by Stella O’Malley, a therapist who works with families. O’Malley titled her piece, “The Children I Meet Are Often Shattered By Their Social Media Use.” The headline caught my eye as I am…
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Social Media Sobriety
In his book 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You, Tony Reinke relates a story about his wife and what she learned when she did something that most of us might never do these days. She decided to remove herself…
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Five Challenges Facing Parents Today
From time to time my dad verbalizes just how difficult it is to raise children in today’s world. Like many older folks, he remembers the relative innocence of childhood back when he was raising his boys in the 1960s and…
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