The Hidden Habit That Will Cripple Your Legacy
COURAGEOUS PARENTING
Isaac & Angie Tolpin - CourageousParenting.com
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Distractions have always been enemies of a thriving marriage and family, but the temptations today are far greater, and your children’s futures will be even harder with the future integration of AI into so many facets of life. The relationship you have with your phone will largely impact your relationships in life. It takes a great level of discipline to make sure your phone isn’t taking your eyes off the prize. The more social media captivates you, the more future challenges you are sowing in your family. Your undivided attention and influence are needed more than ever in your home. We share some great disciplines to infuse you can adopt, encouragement, and it may be an important episode to also share with your spouse to help you get aligned in this vital area.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to the Courageous Parenting Podcast. Today we have a special episode. |
| 0:04.2 | We're talking about how social media can negatively affect your relationships or even ruin them. |
| 0:09.9 | And your parenting and your marriage. I mean, it can have a detrimental impact. And we're living |
| 0:14.2 | unprecedented times for parenting because of technology in a large way. And so how is that negatively |
| 0:20.3 | affecting your influence? and what are your |
| 0:22.4 | children going to emulate and duplicate from their childhood by watching you? We also go into the Epstein |
| 0:29.0 | thing that came out a little bit of warning there and so many other things, a little bit about |
| 0:33.1 | AI too, because someday it won't very soon. It won't even be referenced as social media is the |
| 0:38.3 | problem it's going to be a whole different thing which we get into so pretty relevant um biblically based |
| 0:43.7 | love the scripture we go through wow and so key scriptures that you're going to want all show notes |
| 0:49.1 | and scriptures are listed at courageous parenting.com with the the and audio of the episode. Also subscribe to our |
| 0:55.7 | YouTube channel and all resources are be courageous ministry.org. And every time you share or write a |
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| 1:07.3 | the show. So subscribe wherever you listen. So you get notified of the Tuesday show. Enjoy it. Well, there's a lot of people that talk about the show. So subscribe wherever you listen so you get notified of the Tuesday show. |
| 1:12.3 | Enjoy it. Well, there's a lot of people that talk about the harms of social media with children, |
| 1:16.5 | and that's true. That's not what this episode's about. This episode is about how social media can |
| 1:21.8 | ruin you as the parent, as an individual, as a child of God, and how that can impact your legacy long term. |
| 1:29.1 | It's a really big deal. I mean, we're really honest with ourselves. We can probably detect, |
| 1:33.9 | or at least if we start being honest now and look at every day for the next seven days, |
| 1:37.3 | we could probably detect opportunities where we need to grow in this area. So our bad habits |
| 1:42.5 | with social media aren't picked up by the next generation |
| 1:45.0 | and infect your legacy. Yeah. It's super important to have honesty and introspection, self-examination, |
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