Screen Time: Less is More
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Screens…they’re everywhere! In fact, you’re using one right now. Here’s an important question: are the screens that you’re using improving your connections with other people? Or are you becoming more isolated? What about the screens that your children use? Join us to hear Jonathan McKee’s perspective on how to trim down the screen usage that is distracting us from better things, like spending time with our family and the Lord.
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| 0:31.1 | Today, Jonathan McKee shares ideas about human connection and how that's influenced by all the |
| 0:37.4 | screens we use in our daily lives. |
| 0:39.9 | But let's just be honest, we haven't figured this thing out. This is a great tool for connecting |
| 0:44.3 | people outside the room, but we're learning that it kind of interferes with our relationship |
| 0:48.6 | with the people inside the room. Welcome to Focus on the Family with Jim Daily. I'm John |
| 0:53.1 | Fuller. Well, Jonathan McKee always has a lot of |
| 0:55.7 | insight to share when it comes to media and its impact on the family. And today is no exception. |
| 1:01.5 | Jonathan is a social researcher, a popular speaker, and an author of many books, including |
| 1:06.5 | parenting generation screen, guiding your kids to be wise in a digital world published by Focus |
| 1:12.6 | on the Family. And he's also a contributor to our plugged-in entertainment reviews, so he's really |
| 1:17.6 | part of this family, so to speak. Here now, Jonathan McKee at First Woodway Baptist Church |
| 1:23.0 | in Woodway, Texas on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 1:35.5 | If I were to walk into the typical American home at 7 p.m. on any night, it's not just young people staring at screens. Let's be honest. Dad is sitting here looking at a big screen. |
| 1:40.0 | Mom's sitting next to maybe watching that screen, but also looking at a screen of her own. |
| 1:44.6 | You go upstairs, definitely sister is looking through TikTok videos on her phone. |
| 1:49.4 | Brother is playing games on his device. |
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