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Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Questions to Keep Them Engaged

Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Technology can be a big interference when trying to interact with your kids. To offer ideas for getting past tech distractions, John and Danny share how to ask your kids good questions that help them to stay engaged in conversation with you. Featuring Carey Casey.


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0:00.0

I know you've experienced this. You're trying to have a conversation with your kids, but there's a phone in the way.

0:10.0

And if you're a grandparent, it can be even more of of a challenge but there are some ways to overcome that.

0:15.0

I'm Jean Fuller in the studio with Dr. Danny Huerta who heads up our parenting department here at the ministry

0:20.0

and we're going to come back to a conversation with Carrie Casey who has nine

0:25.2

grandkids. Carrie spoke with Jim Daly and me about how you can have meaningful

0:30.8

conversations with your grandkids,

0:33.0

even in this world driven so much by technology.

0:37.0

When you are looking at the current generation as a granddad with nine grandchildren now.

0:44.2

Is it a greater disconnect because of technology?

0:47.8

Is it tougher to be a grandparent today

0:49.8

because they're so distracted?

0:51.6

They're not sitting there on the porch with you much anymore.

0:54.8

Man sometimes even at the restaurant they're just doing phones at the table.

0:59.5

I've watched that.

1:00.5

I mean thankfully, Jean's been a stickler, God bless her. I mean, nobody has a phone at our table at the

1:06.2

daily household when we're eating dinner together.

1:10.8

I'm so proud of you all in doing that.

1:12.6

How do you, yeah, what do you do as a grandfather in this high-tech distracted grandchild

1:19.4

environment?

1:20.4

How do you connect with them?

1:21.4

I do believe this, though, biblically, of how God made us.

1:26.9

I look at my grandchildren and I ask them the questions like, so who is your dad's dad? Who is your mom's mom and you're asking them questions and you get answers. But

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