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Increase FaceTime.

You know, the FaceTime app is very powerful, especially for connecting with family from a distance.

Important.

We need it.

But we're living in a culture today that is asking us in some cases, and in other cases

not asking us to, but we're still doing it anyway, wearing masks.

And politically speaking, if you're already starting to develop a judgment about what I believe

about mass as it relates to a pandemic, you're completely off track.

What we're talking about is relationships, particularly relationships to our children.

And the masks that we wear are incredibly important, and we need to strip them in order to increase face

time. So this week, that's what we're encouraging you to do. Now, think about this. From a physical

wearing of a face mask, a child develops an ability to be able to fully recognize facial cues in adults when they hit about

the early teenage years. So the more we cover our face in mass, physical mass, the harder

the ability for a child to recognize our facial cues in how we relate to them. Now, what I want to do is I want

to translate that into our emotional relationship with our kids, because here's where it's really

powerful. We so often spend time on our phones while we are in relationship to our kids we so often scroll on

social media when our kids are physically sitting present now you're not necessarily wearing a physical

mask over your face while you're in relationship with them. However, what we do is we put on a mask

by using our screens as much as we do. And if your children are asking, when will you play with me?

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