Family Tips Tuesday Presents - Kids & Quarantine

This evening I held a zoom meeting to discuss kids and quarantine. I wanted to give parents encouragement and kids encouragement. I pointed them to scripture to where to get their strength from during this time. And even though it is hard, Christ came to serve and we are called to serve too and to do so with a joyful heart. So, while we are all stuck at home together let’s have a joyful heart as we serve our families during this time!

I also touch on the topic of how to talk to your kids about the coronavirus. This information is not just good for what is happening around us now, but with any hard discussion you may have to have in the future.

Lastly, I talk about possible separation anxiety that your kids may face once life goes back to “normal”. They have just spent how many weeks with you 24/7 and transition back to the “real world” may be hard.

There is no better time to be pouring into our children the love of God. And pointing them to scripture and prayer for relief from our anxieties of what is going on and what may happen.

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Family Tips Tuesday Presents - The Quaran-teen

In the second week of our Family Tips Tuesday, we discussed connecting with teens, with a specific emphasis on doing so while in quarantine. The presentation was called The Quaran-teen or how to connect with teens stuck at home, hosted by Alicia and Dan Thompson.

Check out the full video presentation, the presentation slides, and/or the links to other resources.

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Resources:

• Axis.org - Axis seeks to see all caring adults equipped with the conversation, discipleship, and culture translation skills needed to reach the next generation for Christ.

• http://www.imom.com/category/ages-stages/tweens-teens/ - iMOM exists to help moms (and dads) be inspired to love their family well. They want to give parents help and hope so that they can enjoy the days to come.

• https://axis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Axis-Parents-Guide-to-Covid-19.pdf - Axis guide for Parents as we face this Covid-19 pandemic.

• Path to Teen Connection - A three part video series on how to better engage your teen. We watched the first video during Family Tips Tuesday. The next step is to take the Free Assessment and watch the remaining two parts.

• The Chosen - The first ever multi-season show about Jesus. It’s currently only one season, but it is amazing. All eight episodes of season one are available on YouTube or from the free The Chosen app. #BingeJesus

• joy. - Amazingly appropriate music video for our time from For King & Country.

Family Tip Tuesday Presents - The Household CTO

In the first week of our Family Tips Tuesday we discussed technology and your children while stuck at home during the quarantine. The presentation was called The Household CTO or simply, how to protect your family’s internet, hosted by Ben Murphy (guest starring Darren Miller).

Check out the full video presentation above and get the presentation slides which include all of the links to articles, podcasts, and research below:

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Additional thoughts (post-presentation):

I’ve had a few interesting conversations about this topic with friends and family. Here are some additional observations:

• 192.168.1.1 is likely the most common router admin login page

• There are roughly 8 pages of porn for every non-porn page on the internet

• At some point your kids will be smart enough to circumvent any filtering or blocking you choose to use. When they realize that a basic VPN is all it takes to get around this basic filtering, you have bigger problems. Hence parenting first!

• Remember, if you allow your children to have a smart phone or device with a cell-phone type data plan, all they have to do is not use your home wifi network and they’re open to use the free internet again. This doesn’t replace parenting! On that note if you really need to get to your kids they do still make and sell flip phones. Using a cell provider like Ting allows you to have control over the voice, messaging, and data per device on your plan as you see fit from a touch of a button. So if they have to have that iPhone, it’s easy to disable the data plan on the fly (full disclosure that link is to my personal referral code for their service).

• Putting forth a plan of action on internet usage in your home may present a "false sense of security" that you’ve done all that you need to do. Any level of filtering doesn't replace the parenting element. Where there is a will, there is a way.