Has your child ever been irritable after using his or her favorite tech? Does a certain show or game ever consistently lead to fights? If so there’s a good chance your child is overstimulated and needs help getting back on a healthy path. In today’s…

Nathan Sutherland

Living Well in an Overstimulated World
We live in a culture that encourages low focus, low attention, and low discipline in doing the hard stuff. To raise up our children well in a tech world requires a clear understanding of our goals, our priorities, and our plans.
Show Notes:…
Protecting Our Children Online
There are three ways to get into trouble online:
– Look for trouble
– Lack a plan for safety (not-not looking for trouble)
– Accidents
Yet in all three scenarios loving parents take the same actions: We build hedges around our family, networks, and…
Using Strengths (And Weaknesses) for the Lord
Tech is amazing at helping us leverage our strengths for productive purposes. Organized people become more organized, social people become more social, and the doers of life get more done. Yet that same tech that allows us to truly shine in areas God…
Five Priorities for Raising Healthy Youth
We are parenting in a time-stretched world. After sleep, school, food, and travel we have, on average, five discretionary hours a day. How will we spend that time? More importantly, as followers of Jesus, how are we called to spend those moments that…
Five Ways to Keep Tech Healthy on Rainy Days
What can we do to ensure our tech stays healthy even when the weather is bad? I live in the Pacific Northwest, and our rainy season isn’t set to stop for another three months at least. It’s easy to pick up some bad tech habits, and make excuses about…
Parenting Pornography with John-Michael Bout (Into the Light Ministries)
Every family in America knows someone who has been harmed by pornography. Talking about phonography is fraught with challenges because it is personal, hurtful, potentially even an ongoing situation. It is into that environment that we join…
How Can I Get My Husband to Quit Gaming?
Gaming can be a wonderful experience, but it can also be a good thing that distracts from the best things. Today’s conversation is to equip wives to have the important, and sometimes difficult, conversation with their spouse about why we game, if it’s…
Parenting Video Games
Video games can be amazing, but many young gamers struggle with balancing their digital adventures with their real life opportunities. Today answer three questions every parent needs to ask about video games:
– Is this a priority for our family?
– Is…
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