• How Does Technology Affect Your Children?
    Awake!—2021 | No. 2

    • WHAT YOU CAN DO

      TRAIN YOUR CHILDREN

      Although “digital natives” may use technology with remarkable ease, they still need guidance. The book Indistractable notes that giving children a smartphone or other device before they have the skills to use it properly is “just as irresponsible as letting them jump headfirst into a pool without knowing how to swim.”

      BIBLE PRINCIPLE: “Train a child in the way he should go; even when he grows old he will not depart from it.”​—PROVERBS 22:6, FOOTNOTE.

      Note the suggestions you would like to implement, or write down your own ideas.

      • Discuss proper online conduct and manners with my child

      • Help my child deal with feelings of exclusion

      • Block inappropriate content to the extent possible

      • Check my child’s phone periodically

      • Set a time limit for daily usage

      • Prohibit devices in my child’s bedroom overnight

      • Ban devices at the dinner table

  • How Does Technology Affect Your Children?
    Awake!—2021 | No. 2