OQ: How Does Your Family Handle Technology?

The Family Discipleship Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0 • 597 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this mini-episode Adam answers your most-asked question with their real setup: landline + watch for calls, curated contacts, filtered schoolwork, locked streaming profiles, and kids’ Kindles set to read-only. He reminds us software can help, but the win is shaping hearts, building accountability, and choosing holiness together.Resources Mentioned

Apple Watch (Family Setup & controls): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211768
Apple Screen Time (family controls): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304
Canopy (filter): https://canopy.us/
Securly (school filtering): https://www.securly.com/
Covenant Eyes (accountability): https://www.covenanteyes.com/
Bark (monitoring): https://www.bark.us/
Dude Perfect App: https://dudeperfect.com/app/
Kindle parental controls: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201472070
Movie “parent guide” lookups (Common Sense Media): https://www.commonsensemedia.org/
Scripture — Psalm 101:3 (“I will not set…before my eyes”): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+101%3A3&version=ESV

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast.
0:10.9	Welcome to the Family Discipleship Podcast.
0:13.1	We are here to equip and encourage Christian parents to lead their families, and we are now
0:16.5	posting every other Monday all year long.
0:19.4	This is Adam Griffin, and I'm here in between our every other Monday all year long. This is Adam Griffin, and I'm here in between our
0:22.9	every other Monday episodes with something that I hope becomes a regular part of the Family
0:27.3	Discibleship podcast. And that is while we are posting regular full-length episodes every other
0:32.3	Monday, every once in a while, and hopefully on a fairly regular basis, I want to insert a 10 to 15
0:38.7	minute episode that is just about one question. We've done Q&A episodes in the past. We do
0:45.1	Q&A when we go and do events at churches and conferences and retreats, and they're great,
0:50.1	and it's super helpful. I thought that if we could do many episodes about one question,
1:00.6	it might both make it easier to find the answer to a question you have and would serve as kind of a carryover in between some of the things we're talking about. So today, I want to talk
1:06.1	through one question. And that one question is, how does your family handle technology? It's one of the
1:12.3	number one questions we get. And in the weeks ahead, I hope to also cover some of the other
1:16.7	biggest questions we get. We'll finally cover, how do you feel about spanking? I'd love to cover
1:22.6	the question of how do you balance work and life and home. Those are some of the number one questions we get.
1:29.1	But if you have a question that you'd like to address or you have a host that you'd like to
1:33.4	address it, Cassie, Chelsea, or myself, feel free to direct message us on Instagram or Facebook
1:38.7	or post a comment on the post about this episode with your question. And hopefully we'll get
1:43.9	to your question
1:44.5	in a one-question episode sometime soon. So, in short, today we're talking about how does your
1:50.3	family, that's our family, the Griffins handle technology, and I'll give you a short answer,
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