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Focus on Parenting Podcast

Tech Use, and Our Kids’ Dating Lives

Focus on Parenting Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Smartphones have given us access to the world. But, is that good or bad? Jim Daly and David Murrow explain some of the negative ways technology has given us too much power as people. Plus, Danny and John share how technology can impact your children's dating lives, and how to have good discussions with them about that topic.

 

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0:00.0

After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next.

0:06.9

Then she got married and discovered a powerful resource for her family.

0:11.2

Focus helped with parenting, helped with marriage, you know, struggles that resources that they

0:20.0

suggested, they helped me tremendously in getting over guilt

0:24.8

and shame, walking me through that so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good

0:29.7

mom. So I can't imagine my early walk or my walk at all without focus on the family.

0:36.9

I'm Jim Daly.

0:38.2

Thanks to the generosity of friends like you,

0:40.8

we're able to give new hope to families like Shelly's,

0:43.9

and we invite you to join our family strengthening team.

0:47.4

If you donate today, your gift will be doubled.

0:50.1

Please call 800 the letter A in the word family,

0:54.0

or visit focus on the family dot com slash gift

0:57.4

well i don't want to give away how old i am but let's just say color tv and happened on my watch

1:08.9

how about uh how about microwaves? How about phones that weren't

1:14.5

affixed to the wall? I watched that transition. So I've seen some things. I've seen a

1:19.9

thing or two, as they said. Beta tapes, right? Yeah. Pre that. Oh, wow. I remember the time. Okay,

1:24.9

so the time it really came home was we were sitting around the table.

1:28.0

My kids were talking about a movie they watched over and over again.

1:31.5

And I just said, this did not happen when I was growing up.

1:34.4

We got a chance to see a movie maybe once or twice if it hung around theater is long enough.

1:39.5

And they're like, what?

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