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How is this affecting me?

Well, that's a good question for all of us to be asking yourselves,

but it's an especially good question for your children to be asking of themselves as they're

online and on a screen. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who's in charge of our

parenting department, and let's now listen to a clip from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

Jim spoke with Arlene Pelican about something she calls the ABCs of screen time. And you're leaning

now into the ABCs. Yes. And I do want to cover that. Yeah. It's a good acronym. It allows a parent to

think through what they need to be in tune. What are the ABCs? Yeah, so as you look at that screen time, whether they're on social media, they're watching a show, they're on a video game, the A is the attitude, right? When your child is done with this activity, what is their attitude like? Are they like, okay, this is fine, you're acting normal like you. Or like, wow, you are really moody. Or you are really irritable. Or you're defiant or you're impatient. So what is the attitude like? What's the attitude produced by the screen time? The B is the behavior. You know, what behavior is being shown? Because the kids will imitate. We are imitators.

We all are. We look around a room. We size up. Adults also, what's happening? And we do it too.

Right. So the behavior, whatever is being modeled on that screen, whether it's too much makeup for a young girl or too much violence for a boy.

Like they want to model what they're seeing.

So what behavior is being modeled by that show, modeled by that video game,

and is that the behavior you want your child to do?

Right?

And then the C is the character.

What kind of character is lifted up, right? What's the relationship between the kid and the parents? What kind of character? You know, the Ten Commandments, that's how we live. Honor your father and mother. And if kids learn how to honor and father their mother, guess what? That's the first command with promise. You're going to live long. Well, most of the things the kids look at on screens are not teaching them, hey, child, you should honor your mother and father. I mean, I think there's like a scrap of that. I can't even imagine where a kid would get that message. So think of like what is the character being cultivated in the heart of your child? Who do they emulate? Who do

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