Healthy tech takes work. It requires we remove the unhealthy and replace it with _________, what? Alternatives seem daunting when we're talking about replacing some of our favorite unhealthy tech outlets. Today we discuss how we can intentionally select activities...
Nathan Sutherland
73. Is All Tech The Same?
It's important to understand what we mean when we say "tech". Is it anything that plugs into a wall? Anything with a screen? Our answer will determine how we understand healthy tech boundaries as well as how we can best connect the Gospel to our daily tech use.Today...
How To Pick A Great Board Game
One of the questions I get the most is how to pick a great board game. The most important part of selecting a good board game is to know your audience. When choosing a game, you need to know who will be playing. A great game for six-year-olds may be incredibly boring...
72. How Do We Make Safe Tech Homes?
Safe tech is about more than simply having good rules. We need to get beyond good guidelines and talk about the basis of making our homes safe from the inside out. In today's conversation we set the basis for our conversation in the Gospel, showing how Jesus clearly...
71. Is My Child’s Tech Use Healthy?
We hear lots of scary stuff about tech: unhealthy screen time addiction to tech dopamine triggers increasing depression and anxiety lurking bullies and stranger danger So how do we know if our child's tech use is healthy? It's actually quite simple. But knowing tech...
70. Gaming And The Gospel
How does the Gospel effect our entertainment? Specifically, how does the good news of Jesus Christ impact our gaming? This is more than simply knowing the right rules or only playing the "safe" games. This is a deep-dive into what makes us tick, into why we game in...
We Demand Distraction
We love to be distracted. We’ll pay good money for the opportunity to escape the present. In 2020 the tech industry brought in nearly $80 billion in app sales. While there are some incredibly useful apps out there, those aren't the ones making the big bucks. The top...
69. Why Should We Connect The Gospel To Our Tech?
Our lives are awash in big questions: politics, education, faith, technology--the number of things we're expected, as parents, to get right is staggering. Today I can help you clarify at least the faith and technology part, because today we are going to address three...
68. “I sure wish…”, setting tech standards for our families
It's easy to miss the moments to teach our children healthful tech. It's equally easy to feel overwhelmed when we realize we're faced with one of those moments. Today's conversation focuses on three practical steps we can take to help our family have a firm foundation...