Social Media and Mental Health In Kids
FamilyLife Today®
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🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The problem with social media and mental health is really affecting our kids, but what do we do about it? Author, Jonathan McKee, helps parents understand the connection and how to talk to kids about it.
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| 0:00.0 | I think sometimes as parents, we feel this pressure to block out all the bad stuff. |
| 0:04.2 | I mean, if parents will sometimes walk up after my parent workshop to walk up to me, |
| 0:08.0 | they'll hand me a device, and they'll be like, show me how to stop all the bad stuff |
| 0:12.0 | from being on this. |
| 0:13.3 | This is my daughter's phone. |
| 0:14.5 | But honestly, it's like we get sometimes so thinking we need to block stuff, and I'll |
| 0:18.1 | kind of confess, I think that's where I messed up as a parent. |
| 0:21.4 | I think sometimes I was so worried about blocking out the lies where I should have been more |
| 0:26.8 | concerned about telling the truth, like, you know, I've inquisified with Christ. |
| 0:32.6 | I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, such a contrast to anything else they're seeing |
| 0:37.8 | at its time, which is, look at me, more likes, more followers, it's like, no, no, no. |
| 0:42.6 | Here's what matters, Christ in me. |
| 0:56.8 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that |
| 1:01.7 | matter most. |
| 1:02.7 | I'm Ann Wilson. |
| 1:03.7 | And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our Family Life app. |
| 1:10.0 | This is Family Life Today. |
| 1:23.0 | So we're sitting by the lake, Family Vacation, we've got our three sons and their wives, |
| 1:27.1 | we've got six grandkids, it's chaos, just in these little cottages that friends of us |
| 1:32.4 | let us borrow. |
| 1:33.4 | It's wonderful to have friends that have cottages on the lake, yeah. |
| 1:36.6 | And so we're hanging out, and I pull out my phone, well, to be honest, I had my phone |
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