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🗓️ 24 December 2024
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So many of us are drowning in our phones. How do we learn to look up and see the real world again? David Murrow and Jim Daly share good rules for parents to set with their kids on screen-time. Then, John and Danny will encourage you, even if you've had a day where you spent too much time on your phone.
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1:02.7 | Well, years ago, it was a big screen sitting in the living room and it commanded all of our |
1:07.9 | attention, at least sometimes. Now it's little screens, and we all carry them, |
1:12.7 | and boy, are they distracting. I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Danny Werta, who leads our parenting |
1:17.9 | team here at the ministry. Danny, let's just dive in. Technology, screens, rules for engagement. |
1:24.9 | How do you handle that? Yeah, we've talked about the kind of the sacred |
1:29.2 | spaces, the spaces where screens are not going to come out. One is the dinner table. None of us |
1:34.5 | have screens there. We put them aside. Another one that that has been at times a struggle is the |
1:41.2 | car, right? If we're going on a long car ride or depending where we're going, |
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