What's your biggest distraction? It might be sports or social media or a favorite hobby.

If we're honest, we all have something that easily distracts us. For me, it's keeping up with current events and politics and history all slammed together.

There's so much going on in the world.

I'm John Fuller joined in the studio by Dr. Danny Werta who leads our focus on the family parenting team and Danny

How much more difficult is it do you think for parents today as opposed to previous generations. Is it harder?

It feels harder.

It does.

And they've actually done polls with older parents

and grandparents on is it harder now than it was 20 years ago to raise kids?

And they've admitted that, yes, they feel

that it's more difficult to raise children

now than it was 20 years ago because of distractions,

because of so much coming at kids and interfering sometimes with the influence

that parents have. It's already limited in the amount of time but then the amount

of mental space has shrunken down for parents to have influence on

their kids lives and we have the dependence on phones that are loaded with

distractions. Entertainment, we can be contacted in. with distractions are felt the the

the rings right at social media email texting phone calls it used to texting, phone calls.

It used to be just phone calls,

and now it's exponentially gotten bigger.

And then we have more stuff, more things

that can be distractions to us, and then more snacks.

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