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Finding Joy in Your Home

At the Hearth Episode 7: Handling Electronics, Screens, and Tech in the Family - S4, E31

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

Religion & Spirituality, Homemaking, Living, Kids & Family, Christian, Mother, Healthy, Christianity, Joy, Homemaker, Wife

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of At The Hearth: Family Chats, Jami and Jason sit down to talk honestly about one of the biggest modern parenting challenges—technology. With eight kids ranging from 12 years old to a baby, homeschooling, and working from home, they’ve had to be intentional about how screens and devices fit into their everyday life.

They share their family’s philosophy on tech use, practical boundaries they’ve set (for both kids and adults), and how they’ve handled screen time during busy seasons—like two years living in an RV! From social media limits to tech-free moments and everything in between, this episode offers encouragement, grace, and real-life ideas for stewarding technology well in your home.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Finding Joy in Your Home Podcast. I am your host, Jamie Valmay, and this is the podcast where we blend deeply theological topics with thoroughly practical application, all for God's glory.

0:13.0

Hey friends, welcome back to our next episode of At the Harth. These are our family chats with jason and i and today we're talking about a very

0:22.0

requested topic which is screens and technology use within the family how we go about dealing with

0:27.9

that rail guards that we have up and also things that we do allow what are we okay with so jason

0:33.6

welcome to our next episode hello all right. So Jason and we're just talking.

0:38.3

We're like kind of going over our notes for this episode.

0:40.6

And we are, I don't know.

0:44.0

I don't know if we're unusual or if we're just, we've kind of found a happy medium in our family with technology use because I would say we're not on either extreme.

0:51.7

We are not an over, over, over tech family.

0:55.4

And we are not a screen freefree family. And I feel like as Christians or homeschoolers, like that's almost like a

1:01.1

no-no thing to say that we're not screen-free. At least in some circles, yeah. It feels like it's

1:05.7

almost, you know, and that's fine. I mean, if you don't own a television or, you know, but it definitely can sometimes be like,

1:11.6

well, we don't own a TV.

1:13.4

And it can kind of be a badge of honor, I think, sometimes.

1:16.6

Yeah.

1:17.8

And that's great.

1:18.6

If that's what works for your family, like we don't think to be a good family you need to

1:22.6

own a TV or use certain types of electronics.

1:25.1

But I also don't think it's some big badge of honor necessarily either.

1:29.2

Well, and like, I don't know, there's a lot of nuance.

1:32.8

There's a lot of nuance.

1:33.7

So that's what we're going to get into today and kind of just share technology use for our family, which like you just said, we don't think that this is the rule for every family.

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