Parenting Video Games

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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about a year ago 29:29

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Is this a priority for our family?
Is this game safe, ready, and good?
Does this game line up with our family for: Characters, Violence, Language, Time, Content, and Player Experience

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4aWpU0G

284 episodes

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

Parenting Video Games

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

published about a year ago

MP3•Episode home

Is this a priority for our family?
Is this game safe, ready, and good?
Does this game line up with our family for: Characters, Violence, Language, Time, Content, and Player Experience

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4aWpU0G

284 episodes

#Parenting #Religion #Christianity #Podcasting Education #Gospel Tech

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Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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Living Well in an Overstimulated World 27:45

4 days ago27:45

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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: https://bit.ly/42uzQLg

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Protecting Our Children Online 20:45

11 days ago20:45

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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 devices, and we have the intentional conversations about how to use the best tech well. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4l9WkJW…

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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Using Strengths (And Weaknesses) for the Lord 21:30

18 days ago21:30

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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 has gifted us can be equally distracting, and even destructive, when our weaknesses show up. We can make more mistakes, faster than ever before. We can also put our trust in our amazing, God-given abilities and be tempted to believe that we can do good works on our strength. Those never end well. So today we'll talk about how we use the best tech well in the areas of our strengths, as well as our weaknesses, and remember together that our goal isn't to be productive, or even impressive, but to use all the tech that makes much of Jesus. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4hITtVn…

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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Five Priorities for Raising Healthy Youth 25:11

25 days ago25:11

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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 aren’t prescribed for us? Today we’ll talk about the top five priorities we have as parents, and discuss how each is an opportunity to raise our children up in the way they should go. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3F4sVQH…

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Five Ways to Keep Tech Healthy on Rainy Days 29:07

5 weeks ago29:07

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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 them because the days are so long and the weather is so poor. So what can we do instead? Today we'll talk through five great alternatives to build healthy, resilient tech habits with our kids and make the most of our rainy days. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3DAgb3Z…

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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Parenting Pornography with John-Michael Bout (Into the Light Ministries) 33:53

6 weeks ago33:53

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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 John-Michael Bout and his ministry Into the Light, which is committed to helping families have the difficult and important conversations--including those around phonography. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3Xj7SAc…

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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How Can I Get My Husband to Quit Gaming? 30:22

7 weeks ago30:22

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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 a good fit, and how we can game on purpose not for purpose. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3XagMzT…

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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Parenting Video Games 29:29

8 weeks ago29:29

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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 this game safe, ready, and good? Does this game line up with our family for: Characters, Violence, Language, Time, Content, and Player Experience Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4aWpU0G…

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Tech is the New Cul de Sac. Right? 23:23

9 weeks ago23:23

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Making friends in an internet age can be tough. Everyone is online (90+% of teens), and more than half of teens say they are online “almost constantly”. So how do we help our children make good friends? We start by teaching them what it means to be a friend: someone who is of equal value, a priority to you, and real world. Then we look at which tech best supports developing these friends, and which tech simply gives us an area of common interest and convenience, but which also makes us expendable rather than exceptional. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3WVS5aj…

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Raising Porn-Resilient Kids 25:36

10 weeks ago25:36

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3/4 of teens have seen p*rnography. More than half of them seeing it on accident. This means the battle isn't just with the internet, but with our children's peers. The good news is that we can make a plan, talk it out, and build meaningful hedges that help us raise porn-resilient youth. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3WHsKAO…

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Using the Best Tech Well 36:08

10 weeks ago36:08

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Our children ask us for new tech all the time, and as loving parents we long to give them good gifts. Yet our children aren't all the same, some can handle more digital responsibility than others, so how do we know when the timing is right for new tech? The answer is simple, if not easy: We give them all the tech that is Safe, Ready, and Good. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4ggDblW…

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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Five Ways to Assess Tech Health 26:35

12 weeks ago26:35

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In the digital world there are a lot of new ways to do old things: Young people hangout online, play sports via the internet, and get famous for their ideas and influence. So how do we know if this is just the latest phase in life and culture, like the printing press or the bicycle, or if there is something unhealthy in our child's life that needs intervention?This is the beauty of a RESET. We simply look at our child's tech use and ask: "Does this tech impede my child's Relationships & Responsibilities? Emotions? Sleep? Enjoyment? Time?" Show Notes: https://bit.ly/40mwAQN…

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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Six Questions to Ask When Choosing Tech 34:41

13 weeks ago34:41

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Our kids ask us for all kinds of tech, and as loving parents we love to give them good gifts. So how do we know which tech they should use and which they should avoid? Today we'll walk through the six simple questions that will help us choose great tech AND teach our children how to discern which tech is the best for them. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3BVcV2t…

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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Starting the New Year with Healthy Tech 22:32

13 weeks ago22:32

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We can ensure our tech is healthy to start the New Year by answering three simple questions: What type of tech are we using? What tech is most concerning right now? What can we do instead? Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4h88y2H

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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Best of 2024: Little Choices Matter (Talk to Teens #1) 27:31

15 weeks ago27:31