RAR #244: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can’t, Erin Loechner

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Sarah Mackenzie

Books, Homeschool, How To, Read-aloud, Kids & Family, Teaching From Rest, Reading, Education, Parenting

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How can our families cultivate healthy relationships with technology?

We’re all trying to impose limits on how, when, and why our kids interact with technology. But in our increasingly tech-driven world, it can be hard to navigate.

Writer Erin Loechner is joining me on the podcast to discuss her new book, The Opt-Out Family, and to offer her life-giving take on building lasting connections with your kids.

We discuss everything from the importance of boredom to Erin’s practical and easy-to-implement advice for becoming unplugged. I hope this conversation leaves you inspired to pursue a life less documented and more delightful!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

What we can learn from tech about capturing our kids’ attention
Why our kids need more space for curiosity, wonder, and boredom (and how our phones tend to get in the way)
Why you don’t have to be all-or-nothing with technology

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Find the rest of the show notes at: https://readaloudrevival.com/more-than-technology/

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0:00.0	Oh my fairy tale summer is underway and we are already having so much fun.
0:09.0	Do you know my favorite part about this brand new program from Read Aloud Revival. It is completely flexible
0:16.7	and customizable. Do you have 10 weeks to read fairy tales? We've got you covered. How about five weeks? Is that a better version for you? Yeah, we made that too. Now what about your kids? Are they all littles? All bigs? Do you have both littles and bigs? Check, check, you can see sample pages of Fairy Tale Summer
0:37.8	and sign up to join us by texting FTS, like Fairy Tale Summer, FTS to the number 337777 and find out why our members are
0:50.0	telling us this is the best guide we've ever made yet. Technology is not a salvation issue, it is not an all or nothing, but idle worship is.
1:08.7	So I think if we are traveling anywhere down the path of like, we are a low-tech family no matter what or we are all on our devices no matter what
1:18.1	my pastor says all the time that for every mile traveled there's a ditch on either side. You really can sort of fall into this
1:26.6	worshiping of technology or worshiping the absence of technology.
1:33.0	Hello, Sarah Mackenzie here.
1:38.0	You've got episode 244 of the Read Aloud Revival podcast, the show that helps your kids fall in love with books and helps you fall in love with homeschooling.
1:50.8	I have a treat for you today because my pal Aaron Lockner is here and we are going to talk all
1:56.9	about her brand new book. You're going to love the Opt Out family and you're going to love Aaron as much as you're going to love the opt-out family and you're going to love Aaron as much as I do.
2:06.0	Around here we're always talking about connecting with our kids, connecting with our kids
2:09.9	through books and also making those meaningful lasting warm connections that will carry our kids
2:15.9	through many a dark day in their future and also just make life worth living and Aaron has a unique take I think on this that she shares in the
2:26.4	opt-out family Aaron Lochner welcome to the read aloud revival.
2:31.1	Ah thank you.
2:33.0	Can you believe it's been episode 244?
2:35.0	I was listening to that and I'm like, that's insane.
2:37.0	That's so many podcasts.
2:38.0	It's a lot of podcasts.
2:39.0	It's actually we just celebrated our 10th anniversary,
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