When Technology Clutters Your Life
Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Kids and even parents feel the constant temptation to scroll on a smartphone. Danny and John explain why it's such a draw to pull out your phone. Plus, Jim Daly talks with Courtney Ellis, who speaks about some of the ways she's struggled with being on a screen for too long, even while raising kids.
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| 0:00.0 | We're aware of physical clutter in our lives and we talked about that last time. |
| 0:06.5 | What about technological clutter? How do you rein in all the technology leaking into your life. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. |
| 0:15.0 | Danny Werta who heads up our parenting department. Danny why are we so easily |
| 0:19.2 | distracted by screens? I mean 20 years ago you had to pay to go see a screen and now we can't get away from them. |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah, the question would be why wouldn't we be distracted by the screens. |
| 0:29.4 | They were designed specifically for that to give us a break from thinking and to give us options right at |
| 0:36.6 | our fingertips easy to access convenience right it allows us to shop from anywhere and wherever and then it allows us to access any type of entertainment that we want to access. |
| 0:49.0 | And so it's sugar for the brain, essentially. It's this brain candy that's available all the time why |
| 0:55.2 | would we not reach for the candy when thinking takes a lot of effort and many people |
| 1:01.0 | are tired and many people are stressed and what this does is |
| 1:04.7 | is it secretes some brain helps the secretion of certain brain chemicals like the |
| 1:09.6 | dopamine which is our motivation center and our learning center and our brain essentially |
| 1:14.0 | learns when I go to the screen I feel better temporarily. It gives me a relief from |
| 1:20.4 | boredom it gives me a distraction from the stress of life. It gives me an escape. |
| 1:25.2 | I can buy things and that's very rewarding. I can talk to people, I can be liked by people, I can |
| 1:30.6 | look at things. It may not be the best things to see and some things that may be very |
| 1:34.7 | entertaining and some things that are super destructive, but they're all right there at the |
| 1:38.9 | fingertips and it doesn't take long to get there. And so it doesn't take long to get there and so it doesn't require patients maybe at times when you |
| 1:46.2 | don't have service right but yeah it doesn't require patients it doesn't require certain |
| 1:50.6 | things that are more difficult from us. So essentially it's sugar for the |
| 1:54.5 | brain and we have to learn how to say no. Okay now you might be thinking and so what |
| 1:58.8 | we're about to hear is all about kids and sugar for the brain but it begins with us. It begins with mom and dad. So let's go ahead |
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