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Dec
0 Comment Disney Plus, healthy tech, streaming, technology Healthy Tech, Parent Resources
Is Disney+ Worth The Investment?Disney has officially entered the battle for your time and dime. For months they've been amassing their forces for war: In October they stopped allowing Netflix ads in their contentIn May they beat Comcast out as majority owner of the streaming service Hulu.For the last years they've quietly begun amassing their ar...
11
Dec
0 Comment board games, books, gaming, parents, reading, tech addiction Books and Board Games, Parent Resources
4 Steps for Finding a Great BookStep #1: Find a topic that interests your reader (not just you). examples: Sports, dragons, history, a person, siblings, adventure, love. There is no such thing as the perfect book for every reader. Exhibit A: Pick up a best seller and tell me if you enjoy it. There's a really good chance you won't! The same...
11
Nov
0 Comment addiction, drool tech, gaming, gospel tech, tool tech Parent Resources
Creating vs. Consuming: Clarifying Tool and Drool Tech.There is a lot of scary tech research out there. We hear that tech can: impair attention (Mendoza, Pody, 2018)reduces test scores (Beland, Murphy, 2015)lower cognitive capacity (Weis, Cerankosky, 2010)be addictive (Freed, 2016; WHO March, 2018; Christakis, 2019)be a dangerous distraction (Ward, Duke, 2017; dscout, ...
11
Nov
0 Comment gaming, gospel tech, healthy tech, social media, tech addiction Healthy Tech, Parent Resources
Two Types of Tech: Tool & DroolThere Are Two Types of Tech 1. Tool Tech: Tech we use to create. 2. Drool Tech: Tech we use to consume. Tool Tech & Drool Tech are not simply "good" and "bad" tech. Instead they are an easy way to distinguish types of tech that can have more negative behaviors. A growing body of research shows D...
04
Nov
0 Comment addiction, gaming, parent resources, social media, technology Parent Resources
Healthy Tech Self-CheckDo I use tech, or does tech use me? Having conversations about healthy tech can be really difficult. We somehow feel like the conversation is both way too big (there are SO many ways to misuse tech) and too small (am I supposed to micromanage my family?). We have all kinds of doubts: What if I am making to...
07
Oct
0 Comment Parent Resources
A Smart Phone SolutionThe Light Phone is designed to get the tools you want, without the distractions. There are a lot of solutions that promise to fix the issues we experience with smart phones. The Light Phone 2 (arriving November, 2019) is designed to be a tool and not a deterrent to the life you want to live. This is a perfect fit ...
07
Oct
0 Comment Parent Resources
Gospel Tech: Game Review GuideThis game review guide is to help answer the question: "Mom and Dad, Can I Play This Game?" This resource allows you to answer this question with your child. Go through the game grade together and talk about why this game is or isn't a good fit for your family. Each conversation will help make your family strong...
