How Your Family Can Manage Technology Well (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Arlene Pellicane looks at some ways you can draw boundaries around your family’s tech use. She also identifies five healthy habits to cultivate in your child when it comes to relationships. You’ll gain some solid insight about technology and digital devices along with some practical tools for connecting with your children in the midst of their tech-driven world. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | So it used to be, you know, when you're in school that you just have to between classes, right? |
| 0:07.8 | You have to like perform, hi, how you doing, you know, do all this stuff, but you'd go home and you can relax but today a kid has to |
| 0:14.8 | perform all the time because now it's not just in the hallway in class but it's I've |
| 0:20.0 | gone home and I have my device and maybe I'm missing something so I better make |
| 0:24.3 | sure I'm not missing something and then in the middle of the night like maybe someone |
| 0:28.1 | might say something I don't want to miss that because then I'll get to school in the |
| 0:31.0 | morning and everyone will know about something and I won't know about it. |
| 0:34.0 | So it's this constant feeling of missing something. |
| 0:38.8 | Arlene Pelican joins us again today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:44.0 | John, last time we talked about, you know, using smartphones and screen time with kids, |
| 0:49.0 | and I said at the beginning of that program, this is probably the number one thing that we get |
| 0:53.4 | contacted by parents about. They want to know what should I do and we did mention |
| 0:58.5 | that last time what experts are now saying for screen time for zero to two which is none three to five |
| 1:05.0 | etc so if you missed it go back and get it from the smartphone app or you know go to |
| 1:10.8 | the the website and you can listen to that program we're going to |
| 1:13.7 | pick up the conversation today I think we probably not intentionally |
| 1:18.5 | probably scared a lot of parents with what we talked about there's solid data |
| 1:22.1 | about brain development or poor brain development when it comes to too much screen time. |
| 1:28.0 | And that's part of it. We've got to be so much more mindful as parents today than, say, 20 years ago, 15 years ago. Technology can |
| 1:36.1 | destroy children and we're seeing that in the data, you know, loneliness and |
| 1:40.3 | separation and cyberbullying and all those kinds of things and when you know and Again, we covered all that last time, get it. |
| 1:53.0 | But we're going to pick up today and talk more with our guest and her great book, Screen |
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