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Post your free job on LinkedIn.com slash select today. Welcome back to the Questions and Ethics Program with Russell Moore. I'm Daniel Patterson. We've got an interesting

question for you today. Dr. Moore. This question comes from a parent.

Says I have a 12 year old, all his friends have smartphones, iPads, laptops,

but I've got some concerns myself. Should I get my 12 year old a smartphone?

Well you're really hitting on a sensitive area for me because this is something that just is a

continual point of amazement to me are kids, but not just age 12, but even much younger than

this, who have iPhones and iPads and so forth. My kids are among the only ones in the neighborhood who aren't

walking around with smartphones. And so I really think this is an important question because I have to reflect all the time on

my gratitude to God for the fact that as a Jen Exer I came of age right before the digital revolution because if I had come of age just a little

bit later, I think it would have been new enough that my parents probably wouldn't have known what all sorts of trouble

one could get into and if I had had access to the internet I would have just completely

destroyed myself and I know myself and I know my weakness is enough

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