Dads and Family Leadership

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

Christianity, Pastor, John Piper, Theology, Ask, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 13 January 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Parents should monitor their kids use of technology, not just so that they get good grades or avoid trouble, but so that they grow up to live for Christ and his kingdom.

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0:00.0	Francis Chan joins us one more time from San Francisco, as our guests on the Aspester
0:08.6	John podcast.
0:10.1	Francis, I want to conclude our episodes with you by asking about parenting in the digital
0:14.5	age.
0:15.5	You have six kids and number seven is on the way.
0:19.5	As a dad, I find this to be one of the biggest struggles in parenting.
0:22.7	Have you and Lisa found any keys to setting parameters around the time your kids spend
0:27.0	on screens, computers, devices, and video games in their leisure time?
0:31.5	I'm pretty authoritative in the house.
0:35.2	If I say look, you got 45 minutes a day or an hour a day, that's just the way it's going
0:42.3	to be.
0:43.3	They know better than to argue with that.
0:47.2	What I will say about the whole computer iPad, movies, video games is a lot of that is
0:54.4	our fault.
0:55.4	We can't blame it on the kids.
0:57.1	We get too busy to parent, and so we let the videos keep them occupied.
1:03.1	In our home, we do limit their time and we monitor what they watch, but so much of it
1:08.3	is me.
1:09.3	I need to go out, grab my son and throw the football.
1:12.6	I need to grab my daughter, take her out dinner, go to the beach.
1:17.0	We need to interact with them.
1:19.1	The other thing, the reason why this is so important too, is I'm meeting more and more
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