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Focus on Parenting Podcast

Replacing the Negative Effects of Screen-Time

Focus on Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

So many kids and parents are glued to a screen today! How can we do better in this area? Jim Daly and Arlene Pellicane address some alarming statistics on how screens and social media are negatively impacting young kids today. Than, Danny and John will give some pointers on replacing screen-time with more helpful activities.

 

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0:00.0

God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new

0:05.6

documentary from Focus on the Family in the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose

0:11.1

courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising starting September 5th and find out how

0:17.4

you can be a part of the change and become an agent of restoration.

0:22.4

Sign up at truthrising.com.

0:24.8

That's truthrising.com.

0:30.8

I was in the airport the other day near the gates, and's a wide walkway and people are going back and

0:37.9

forth and some people walk in the middle and others walk in the edge and coming toward me was this dad

0:42.8

right in the middle of kind of the hallway there between gates and he had a little four-year-old in

0:48.5

front of him holding a phone this four-year-old was walking and holding a phone. We've all seen distracted adults with

0:56.7

phones. What's a four or five-year-old doing with a phone at an airport? What if there were

1:01.4

better ways maybe to help that child understand situational awareness, not running into people

1:06.6

and look at all this and see the people? I don't know. I'm on a rant, so I'm going to just say, hey, I'm John.

1:12.1

Don't send your hate mail to me.

1:14.0

Dr. Danny Werta is the host of this show.

1:18.1

No, really.

1:18.9

Danny's in charge of our parenting team,

1:20.7

and we're going to hear now about kids and tech

1:23.6

and appropriate boundaries from Arlene Pelican.

1:27.4

She was on Focus on the Family with Jim

1:29.3

Daly, and she offered Jim some pretty sobering stats and reasons about screen time and why

1:35.4

too much of it is a bad thing. Let's talk about the digital norm. I don't even know what that is.

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