Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we'll explore how digital technology can affect your family, so much so that you might need a long break from it.

I know detoxes, but you know what. that you might need a long break from it.

I know detoxes, but you know your kids, like nobody else.

And you've been watching them for the last two weeks

and you're observing what dose of technology or dose of digital entertainment kind of sends them into a

tail spin. We need to view interactive digital entertainment more like doses because

of the way it affects the brain.

So, you know, observe your kids and be confident when you're making these rules and these

parameters for your kids.

That's Molly DeFrank, a Concerned Mom who wants to help equip your family to establish some healthy tech

boundaries.

And we'll hear more from her today.

Your host is focused president and author Jim Daly, and I'm John Fuller.

John, here's a billboard surprise.

We all know digital technology, smartphones, tablets, internet,

are generally good for finding information.

Can you remember back to how we used to get somewhere

before smart?

Do you remember the microfish we would use at the library,

the little, I used the Thompson paper things?

So you bought these books, you you know for LA or wherever and you'd have to go to page 17 and then but man GPS has made our life easier.

So the point is technology itself isn't the problem, but when we overdose on technology, it does become a problem.

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