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You know, it's so hard for us as parents to keep up with the culture.

As soon as we figure out one social network and we know our kids are using that, up, they're

on to something else.

And then we got this learning curve to figure it all out and we're

on to an artist and we try to be cool and say yeah I know that artist and they're

like that's so yesterday. I'm John Fuller and I am dated and I'm here with Danny Werther who keeps his finger on the pulse of the kids and

Danny's head of our parenting department. Danny it's not always the most fun part of our job

but like it or not we really do have to stay current on what our kids are looking at

listening to the tools they're using during their teenage years.

Absolutely that's why we have plugged in, right?

I focus on the family.

It's a tool for parents to keep up on the culture,

on video games, on music, streaming television.

There's so many different places that kids are playing through

their technology use and entertainment consuming and

having messages come their way and research has consistently said that parents

that monitor which means they're involved in the technology use with their kids and have intentional conversations, have kids that use it in a more balanced way in a better way and are less likely to get into risky

situations with technology and entertainment.

So as parents, our job is to be intentional with it rather than just stepping back and saying,

oh, teenagers are just going to be this way,

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