MP 084: Screens and Your Child
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Screens are part of our world and they are here to stay. TV, computers, smartphones, tablets are all around us and becoming an essential element in our everyday lives. Though many would like to demonize these devices, the reality is that they are amoral - not good nor bad. It is our job as parents to help our children learn to use these screens in a way that is beneficial for their physical, social, and emotional development. Screens are a big issue for parents and a complex one. In this podcast, we discuss navigating this topic with our kids and why limiting screens is it actually more of a challenge for parents than for children.
"Their performance might be high in gaming and internet information processing, but what about performance in low-tech activities such as building relationships? Parenting? Achieving greatness at anything, from sports to music to business?" ~Amy and Evelyn Guttmann
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Messy Parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:09.1 | And sorry we've been gone for a little while. |
| 0:11.3 | Yes, but we have a really good excuse. |
| 0:13.7 | Yeah, we had our first child married. |
| 0:15.7 | I think for those on Facebook know that we were asking for some prayers. |
| 0:18.7 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:20.5 | So one wedding down, nine to go. |
| 0:24.8 | So it was amazing. And actually, we are going, we wanted to share with you everything, |
| 0:31.5 | not everything about the wedding, but there's a lot of, I want to bore you, but a lot of really |
| 0:35.4 | fun ideas and things that happened and came up. |
| 0:39.1 | And so in about a week or so, we're going to kind of do a little recap for you all. |
| 0:44.2 | But we wanted to do kind of just, we want, Pat and Cassie are still in their honeymoon and all of that. |
| 0:49.7 | So we're going to wait to talk to them first. |
| 0:51.8 | As Mike said, I don't think the first time they should |
| 0:54.5 | hear, you know, our perspective of the wedding is before we actually even talk to them. |
| 1:00.1 | So we're going to wait to talk to them first, but then, but we have a really great topic |
| 1:04.3 | today to talk about. Yeah. Well, and also, too, it's, Lent has begun. Yes. The beginning of |
| 1:08.9 | Lent now and it's just a lot of stuff going on. |
| 1:12.7 | So it's a great time. |
| 1:13.9 | You know, again, I love these seasons of the church to help us think differently. |
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