What does the current research say about the positive and negative influence of emerging technologies on our ministries, our families, and ourselves? It's imperative we comprehend how media impacts our mental and spiritual health. Technology is changing our lives, how we relate to and understand each other.

1. Parenting & the Media Challenge!
Ernest Staats, MISA, CISSP CEH .. Info@networkpaladin.org https://networkpaladin.org

2. Average Daily Media Use
60% of teens—ages of 13 to 17—say they spending too much time online
8-12 tweens 6 hours
13-18 teens 9 hours a day
(excluding school time)
Parents 9:22 minutes daily
Minutes for Spiritual Content

3. The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and pay the
penalty. (Proverbs 22:3)

4. Social Media More Addictive Than
Booze and Cigs

5. Considerations Of Social Media
On Face-to-Face Interactions
Decreasing Face-to-Face
Interactions
Decreasing Quality of Face-to-
Face Interactions
Decreasing Relationships
Decreasing Language Skills
Cyberbullying in Social Media
Social Media Addiction
Simon Sinek
“The Millennial
Generation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
xNgQOHwsIbg

6. No Pictures, Please: Taking Photos Found
to Impede Memory of Museum Tour

7. More Time = Less Happy

9. Who or What is in Control
Are we living at the level of
experience ?
Are we controlling the
technology?

10. Culture is catechizing us into its image
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/26/us/star-wars-religion/index.html

12. To Much Screen Time Can Make Us
Oblivious to the world
Oblivious to each other
Oblivious to ourselves
Oblivious to God
Oblivious Ambivalent

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8

14. What is “Brain Hacking”
Brain Changes
https://youtu.be/HffWFd_6bJ0

15. Distractions

16. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/media/Pages/default.asp

18. 1. Media time earned
2. No distractions during homework
3. Set time they can check in
4. No mobile @ meals, at
restaurants, or in the car
5. No TV during the school week
6. No devices charged in the
kitchen…
7. Home Wi-Fi connection times
8. No social media on school devices
9. Break rules 24 hours Detox
10. Digital Sabbath’s
Set boundaries based on Age, Time, Places

19. https://youtu.be/Z7dLU6fk9QY

20. What Steps Are
You Going to Take?