House or Home - Parenting Edition - Is Technology Helping or Hurting Our Kids?, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Technology is perhaps the most powerful force in the world today. It’s been used to start revolutions, to bring down political leaders, to launch careers, and much more. But the fact is, what you don’t know about technology could be devastating to your children. Chip is joined in this session by his son Ryan to talk about technology and your kids.
Main Points
What do parents need to know in today's tech world?
- The landscape is constantly changing.
- The rules are ever changing.
- The dangers are changing and growing.
- The basic needs and desires have NOT changed.
What's the game plan?
- Lead the way.
- Have the talk often and openly.
- Keep the control.
- Know where they go.
- Go where they go.
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Technology is perhaps the most powerful force in our world today. |
| 0:05.0 | It's been used to start revolutions, bring down political leaders, or launch careers and much more. |
| 0:11.0 | But what you don't know about technology could destroy your children. |
| 0:17.2 | Parenting and technology, it's an issue you've got to address, and that's what we'll do today. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:36.5 | And we're in the middle of his series House or Home, Parenting Edition. |
| 0:40.5 | Today, Chip will be joined by his son Ryan Ingram to chat about the weighty topic of technology and the family. |
| 0:47.0 | They'll look at how it has expanded and evolved over the past 20 years and challenged moms and dads to educate and prepare |
| 0:54.1 | themselves for when it enters their home. Well there's a lot to get to so here's |
| 0:58.2 | Chip to kick off this vital discussion. Is technology helping or hurting our kids? Now what I want to do because the answer is you |
| 1:08.9 | already know it right? The answer is yes. It is really helping and it's really hurting. |
| 1:15.0 | But what I want to do is I want to start off and I want to do a quick review in terms of five timeless principles. |
| 1:21.0 | Principal number one, the successful parents begin with clear cut objectives. |
| 1:27.5 | As a parent you got to say, I want my kids, my goal is to help them become wholly, to become like Christ, not just happy or successful. |
| 1:37.0 | Principal number two, successful parenting demands that we practice what we preach. They will become what we are. |
| 1:45.0 | Principal number three is successful parenting means building relationships that bond. |
| 1:51.0 | It's not a transfer of information. There's got to be a deep |
| 1:54.8 | connection of the heart and whether that happened in the old days around a |
| 1:58.8 | campfire or whether it happens now with high technology, |
| 2:02.7 | you got to have relationships that bond. |
| 2:04.6 | Principal number four, successful parenting |
| 2:07.0 | requires constant repair and ongoing maintenance. |
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