We can parent the technology schools send home and ensure these devices are a blessing in the classroom and beyond. We start by talking about using tech well with our kids, then we ensure the school and our home have hedges to keep these devices safe, and we remember that tech in the classroom should benefit learning. With these three in mind we are able to parent school technology well.

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How can we tell if a child’s tech is just different, or if it’s actually becoming unhealthy? Today we'll walk through the practical applications of a RESET and how it empowers us to fight for our children, not just with them, when it comes to tech.

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Young people, you can make your tech support the good choices you want to make.

1. Set spiritual practices, healthy habits, and safe hedges (Ephesians 2:1-10)
2. Use your words and actions for building others up (Ephesians 4:29)
3. Look to help (James 5:19-20)

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Parenting tech doesn't have to be complicated. Two questions to help us on our way: Is true? Does it bear good fruit? These two guide our tech decisions about whether we change our tech choices, or simply remove unhealthy tech and replace it with new and safer activities.

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The transition from summer to the school year is a wonderful opportunity to reassess our routine and priorities. It's a time to make sure we're planning for healthy sleep habits, recalibrating screen time, and protecting what matters most from getting lost in the busyness of the fall season.

Back-to-school season is the perfect time to be intentional about using tech in ways that support our goals and well-being.

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In 2016 Anna and I started a nonprofit focused on sparking positive purpose in youth. I began teaching part time and speaking part time, and ten years later we are doing this as a full time ministry to equip and empower parents, youth, and leaders to love God and use the best tech well.

As we look to this next year we feel a strong conviction, especially after six months in the classroom for Nathan this year, to make resources that families and churches can use to strengthen, encourage, and empower the best tech choices, available.

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Safe, Ready, Good is the standard every parent can apply to the tech in our homes, and to any tech we dream about bringing through our door.

First we ask if it is safe. Is this technology safe by design, or are there additional controls we can add that will help to keep it safe? Then, is my child ready?

Sometimes this is an age thing (they should be 15 before getting a smartphone), and sometimes it's a maturity thing: They need a healthy RESET even if they're old enough.

Finally we look at the fruit; is it good?

The best tech will make our children look more like Jesus, and that's the standard we set for using the best tech well.

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And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Philippians 4:8

Philippians 4:8 is a gift to everyone living in this tech world. We can quickly reflect on the what, why, and where of tech quickly in order to use tech intentionally.

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God has given us our children as a mission field, and He's proclaimed His Good News that we aren't in charge of saving them; just loving them. It's not easy, but it is freeing, and it's exactly what our children need.

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Parenting is hard, and parenting in a tech world can be downright overwhelming. The good news is that we have a good God who calls us to faithfulness, not perfection. So today, rather than focusing on ourselves as parents, we're going to reflect on who God is, who we are, and what it means to be a child of God.

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