Logging Off to Focus on Your Real-Life Relationships
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The average American spends about eleven hours a day on some form of media. But as we’re working on our computers, scrolling through social media, and watching Netflix at night, what are we missing out on in our real-life relationships? Wendy Speake talks about what happened when she went off social media for forty days. She talks about how she got closer to her children and her spouse, found a new intimacy with God, and realized that life is pretty beautiful if you look around and appreciate it.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I need you to think about your relationship with social media. |
| 0:07.0 | How would you describe that? |
| 0:10.0 | It's the first thing I look at in the morning and the last thing I look at before I go to bed. |
| 0:15.3 | The images, the jokes, it gets me thinking about things that I would rather not think about. |
| 0:22.1 | When I get my screen time report on my iPhone every Sunday, |
| 0:25.0 | I cannot believe how much time I've spent on Facebook and Instagram. |
| 0:29.0 | Sometimes when I get stressed, I just start scrolling and scrolling so I don't have to think anymore, but it never |
| 0:35.8 | makes me feel better. |
| 0:37.3 | I'll usually check social media when I go to bed at night and every time I'm like, why did I go down that rabbit hole? Why did I do that? |
| 0:46.8 | Well, today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we'll explore how you can put your phone down and limit other digital media so you can enjoy each day with |
| 0:55.1 | God and your family. Does that sound challenging? Well we've got some great help for you today. |
| 1:00.3 | Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:02.3 | John, I don't even know how this is possible, but they say the average adult spends about 11 hours a day on some form of media. |
| 1:10.0 | I mean that seems crazy, but if you add up working on your computer looking at your phone |
| 1:14.5 | watching TV maybe it makes sense but that just seems like a lot of time |
| 1:18.6 | 11 hours and while screen time in and of itself isn't bad like anything when you overindulge in it can become a problem. |
| 1:28.0 | And every hour we're doing something on the screens that means we're not spending time with the Lord, we're not reading his word, we're not spending time with our spouse. the missing time with my boys because I was too busy doing the emails and doing other things. |
| 1:45.0 | But we have certainly done a lot of parenting broadcasts about helping your kids manage time on their phones, |
| 1:52.0 | but today what we want to do is talk to mom and dad |
| 1:55.0 | about them managing time well and setting a good example for their kids and |
| 2:00.7 | this might have a little bit of pain. |
| 2:03.0 | Well it'll be a good pain as we talk with Wendy's speak. |
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