Category: Screens
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A Great Interview with ScreenStrong Podcast
I recently had the honor of appearing on the ScreenStrong Families Podcast. I think the 25-minute interview with Marketing Director Mandee Hamann is one of the most helpful I’ve done. If you need encouragement to become more intentional with screens — yours or your family’s — I think you’ll appreciate this episode. If so, please…
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Kellogg’s And Blues Clues: Lying With Pride, Destroying Our Kids
It’s so hard to see a delusion for what it is when you’re immersed in it. When everything you see and hear and feel confirm the powerful propaganda. But lies are obvious to anyone on the outside. And it’s so easy to just go along — to float on the raging river of lies. We…
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With “Play Something”, Netflix Attacks More Of Your Brain
Netflix — an enemy of your intentional life — deployed a new weapon in their desire-shaping arsenal a couple weeks ago. It’s a deceptively helpful sounding button titled: “Play Something”. According to Netflix’s own announcement: “There are times when we just don’t want to make decisions. A Friday evening after a long work week. A fridge…
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We’re Confused About Social Media
The confusion about social media is a misunderstanding about what it is, and what it’s for. Most people think it’s a tool for connecting with family and friends. For sharing pictures with grandparents. For announcing important things. For convenient conversation. But social media is actually none of those things. Social media is an advertising platform…
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Grateful for Book Awards!
My book, [Un]Intentional: How Screens Secretly Shape Your Desires, and How You can Break Free, has received some nice recent recognition. First, it won a Silver medal in the 2020 Illumination Book Awards for the Self-Help/Recovery category. These national awards “are designed to honor and bring increased recognition to the year’s best new titles written…
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Don’t Surrender Your Kids To A Screen-Shaped World
Why do we accept the dominant narrative that our kids live in a different world? An October 2019 article by Julie Jargon in the Wall Street Journal claims to help parents better understand their other-worldly teens. It’s called: “Teens Explain Their YouTube Obsession (Because Adults Don’t Get It)”. The embedded video says: “Teens Explain YouTube…
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Pushing Reset On Your Family’s Relationship With Screens [Guest Post]
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Sally Matheny invited me to share with her audience on the subject of my new book, so I wrote a guest post entitled Pushing Reset On Your Family’s Relationship With Screens. In the post, I share five steps towards a family reset with your devices. I think #4 is extra important: “You go first.” Sally…
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Back To School: Not Back To Porn
For many families, back to school means back to screens. As more schools foolishly embrace the marketing of ed-tech companies, our kids are more enmeshed in screen time during the school day. But giving kids screens in school isn’t improving their ability to think and learn. And worse, every screen is an opportunity to expose…
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Doctor Reveals The Real Reason Kids Are Addicted To Screens
Dr. Richard Freed reveals the reasons so many kids want to be using screens all the time. It’s time for parents to know what’s going on so we can wisely guide our kids through our screen-saturated world.
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The Struggle With Screen Time Is Real [Guest Post]
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Misty Phillip, author of The Struggle Is Real, But So Is God, invited me to write about the struggle with technology on her blog, By His Grace. I found her book title a great springboard, since it so nicely captures both the reality of our battles with technology, and the real power of the solution…