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Revive Our Hearts

Teenagers and Media

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2008

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A parent has to keep a close watch on the messages teenagers are receiving. But how?

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0:00.0

A young woman reflects on the media being created for her generation.

0:05.7

I think that there is an artificial perception of love being given in those movies and in the books.

0:12.8

And love in the movies is always like physical or something emotional that really, you know,

0:18.8

pricks our girl hearts.

0:19.9

Like, oh, he sang a song. Oh, he wrote a letter. Oh, he came after her. And that's not necessarily loved.

0:28.7

Love me like they do in the movies. Come and take me by the hand. Kiss me in slow motion, walking by the ocean. This is Revive Our Hearts with

0:48.8

Nancy Lee DeMoss. It's Tuesday, April 29th.

1:08.2

Yesterday, Bob Lopene, the co-host of Family Life Today, joined us to talk with Nancy Lee DeMoss and Dana Gresh, about lies young women believe and the truth that sets them free.

1:11.7

That's the title of the new book by Nancy and Dana,

1:15.0

offering practical help to young women and their parents who want to make wise choices.

1:17.8

Let's get back to that conversation.

1:25.2

You know, it's interesting.

1:26.2

We're living at a time in our culture when media is changing.

1:33.6

I remember when my own children were younger and we thought, you know, we've got to get on top of media usage,

1:39.9

which basically meant we want to control how much television they're watching.

1:44.3

Well, I'm a point in my parenting now where I can have controls over how much television my children are watching, and that's fine with them because television.

1:54.6

Television isn't a big deal anymore unless it's the clips they're watching on YouTube or the TV that they can actually download

2:02.6

and watch on their laptop, it's all of a sudden moved out of the living room and right

2:07.3

into the personal computer and media has become a dominant part of a teenager's world.

2:14.4

So when it comes to media usage, it's a changing landscape for parents, but the

2:20.1

lies that teenagers believe about media have stayed pretty much constant. It's just the

2:25.5

technology that's been changing. As you talked with teenage girls about technology and about

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