Getting a Handle on Your Screen Time
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
With forty years in the TV business and from personal experience, David Murrow understands the negative effects from overuse of screens. He discusses positive and negative uses of various media and offers great practical advice for you as a parent as you guide your children and manage screens in your home.
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| 0:00.0 | Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours? |
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| 0:17.7 | that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally. |
| 0:22.8 | So I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:32.1 | I see little kids now in stores, and they're in strollers, and they've got their own little |
| 0:36.8 | kids tablet. |
| 0:38.0 | Okay? |
| 0:38.8 | What are you training them to do? |
| 0:40.7 | You're training them when they're bored to go to a screen. |
| 0:43.5 | Right. |
| 0:44.0 | Don't do that. |
| 0:45.3 | Train them to be in the real world from the beginning. |
| 0:47.8 | Set limits right away. |
| 0:49.6 | Great insights from David Murrow, and he's our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim |
| 0:54.6 | Daily. He'll be talking about how we as Christians should be responding to today's |
| 0:59.7 | tech-obsessed culture and has some great practical ideas for keeping technology in |
| 1:05.3 | its proper place. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John, technology is more |
| 1:10.5 | more relevant to all of us all the time. |
| 1:13.6 | And it's an issue. |
| 1:15.2 | It may be the number one parenting issue that we get asked about here at Focus on the Family, right? |
| 1:20.5 | Probably. I mean, there are several things, but that's got to be at the top because it's everywhere. |
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