We as parents have placed this burden on ourselves of especially given the social media highlight real society that we live in, that if everything's not picture perfect for Instagram, then I can't talk to anyone about it.

There's obviously a lot of great things kids can belong to, right?

Like sports, scouting, that's another great example, lots of civic organizations.

Going back to the research, like that is what's saying, that for some reason there's

something particular about faith communities that is really protective for these kids.

Kids that are in that 10 to 14 year window.

We can't not allow them to use technology because we're in a world that uses it, but we also

wants to protect them.

Well, hello and welcome back to the Daily Grace podcast.

I am JJ, your host, and today I am joined by Emily Thomas for her fourth guest appearance

with us, and we will be talking

about the intersection between mental health in our teenagers and how your faith community

can be a part of that.

We would appreciate if you were able to like and subscribe wherever you find your podcast

content.

And as we dive into today's episode, Emily, I would even like to

just segue by asking about a favorite family vacation. And so maybe I'll go first and give you a

chance to think about where you've taken your kids to enjoy. But my wife and I do enjoy traveling.

We are actually kind of the anti-Disney people, not because we're like boycotting Disney.

I know there's a whole group of people do that, and that's fine. If people do, that's not really us.

We like to go do touristy things like historical or I'm a big mountains person. So if I had to pick a

favorite family vacation, it would probably be last year we took a trip into like central and southern

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