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The Family Discipleship Podcast

The Family Discipleship Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0 • 597 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Adam Griffin, Chelsea Griffin, and Cassie Bryant discuss how we can lead and disciple our families when it comes to social media.Questions Covered in This Episode:
  • What are we going to do about kids on social media? Why is this all over the news right now?
  • What is the difference between social media and general access to the internet for a kid? 
  • What is the benefit of social media? Maybe start with for anyone and then can you see any benefit for kids?
  • What is the potential harm of having kids on social media?
  • What decisions if any are you making about social media for your family or for the families you lead at church?
  • What scriptures come to mind for you when you talk about whether to be on social media platforms?
Denison Forum Recommendations:
  • Draw boundaries and keep them rock solid. 
  • Educate your kids on the inherent risks, pornography, and stranger danger. 
  • Allow them freedom in proportion to their trustworthiness. (limited usage? Smart devices?)
  • Give them a safe space to talk about things that make them uncomfortable. 
  • Be a loving ear for their woes and keep up a healthy dialogue about their relationship with social media. 
  • Carefully consider at what age to allow them to enter certain sites, if ever.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Family Discipleship podcast, a podcast of Training the Church.

0:13.2

This is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my two fabulous co-hosts first.

0:18.9

The lady who survived high school without Instagram. This is Cassie Bryant. How you doing today, Cassie? Or Facebook. Or Facebook or any of it. No TikToks? No. Snapchat? Snapchats? Nope. Out of here. AOL messenger though. Hey, oh. What was your, what was your, uh, user handle?

0:38.1

I don't even remember, actually.

0:38.7

That can't be true. No, really? I don't. But it's okay. You don't have to share it. Yeah. I bet it was something feisty. I bet it was crazy. I think I have access to what it was. You have access to AOL instant messenger on your phone? Yeah, there's this app. No.

0:51.7

Don't you text?

0:52.7

No.

0:54.7

She's still I-M-ing. She's like, Eric, all I am me when I'm

0:59.7

on my way home. Yeah, I am to you guys before I came. Oh my goodness. What if I thought text was that?

1:04.4

Of course, Cassie and I are here with the woman who would definitely be in my top eight spaces on MySpace.

1:10.8

This is Chelsea Griffin. How are you today, Chelsea? I'm doing good. I don't even really get that reference. I was never on MySpace. You were never on MySpace? How old am I? I was about to bring up Zanga. I was never on Zanga either. Oh man, Kazu. Did you ever download mean, that was Kazaa. Kaza. That's what I meant.

1:27.8

Kazah, Napster, MP3 Panda.com. That was Chelsea's Russian MP3 downloader. Don't go to, none of these websites

1:34.8

should be searched for. In fact, right off the top, bears, let me give you a warning. First of all,

1:39.7

we're joking about some stuff. We are going to talk about some very serious stuff. There are some

1:45.1

serious ramifications of social media. It has not gone well for teenagers right now in this

1:52.2

generation. There's a lot of difficult things. So we are going to try to keep it lighthearted,

1:56.8

but just kind of a warning off the top that if you're listening with a kid, we're going to

2:00.8

talk about some of the difficult things that have come as a result of kids interacting on social media with one another and certainly with just having unbridled access to things on the internet. And that can be really difficult, really ugly. So just a warning. If you're ready for it, we're ready for it. We've been, we prayed about this

2:17.8

episode like we do every episode before we get started. And I'm just praying that we're helpful,

2:21.8

people. I'm, I'm praying as a dad who's making decisions, you know, in the, in the years ahead

2:26.6

and daily. Chelsea and I are talking through this kind of stuff. And certainly as a pastor,

2:30.9

thinking about the ramifications of these things for our culture.

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