Making Screen Changes for Your Family

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How has the screen influenced your family? On one hand, you may say you want to spend less time on your phone, but actually following through is quite difficult. Screens have infiltrated every area of our lives: communication, work email, directions, Uber, grocery orders, Amazon Prime, apps for your kids, and the list goes on. So, how does a family actually make changes when it comes to screens? Josh recently deleted a majority of the apps on his phone, practically turning his iPhone into a flip phone. In this episode, Josh and Christi talk about the ways it has been life-giving for their family and share practical ways you can make similar changes. Josh and Christi talk about:

The research on "continuous partial attention" and how it's increasing anxiety in our kids
How to let go of the hurry and allow yourself to be inconvenienced in difficult, but freeing, ways
Simply acting on your decisions and adjusting your life according to those decisions

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0:00.0	I think it's important for us to talk about it as a family because I believe that what's happening
0:05.8	and researchers describe it as continuous partial attention, that we only pay partial attention
0:13.1	to any one thing at a given time. And it's just continuous, continuous partial attention.
0:18.3	And what that means is you're never paying full attention to
0:21.3	any one thing. It's like we move from our to do list to the next thing to the next thing.
0:26.9	And I hear so many people say, well, how do I even get rid of my iPhone? How do I get rid of a phone?
0:32.4	You are listening to the famous at home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:38.0	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:47.1	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast. Today we are talking about screens and your family.
0:52.5	Before we do, here is a word from our sponsors.
0:57.7	All right. So this is our first time back actually recording in the new year here. So you finished
1:04.5	the words that matter for your family series. We hope you enjoyed that. And I hope the whole
1:10.7	point of doing that series for us was an
1:13.1	opportunity for you to be able to go back and listen to really those as a series and use them,
1:21.2	whether it's in your church, whether it's in your home, whether it's in a small group or that
1:24.3	type of thing, to use those as a resource to go back to.
1:29.1	And so we hope that you're able to do that.
1:29.9	We did come to that.
1:32.8	And Sandra Stanley joined us last week.
1:34.2	Hope you got to listen to that episode.
1:41.9	This week we are talking about screens because it's been, we've made some changes in our family.
1:43.6	But we are back.
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