Add a biblical insight to conversations with your child as they share their online experiences. For today learn one thing that happened in your child’s online universe. Ask “So what happened today when you were online with your friends/at school?” or “What interesting/funny thing happened when you were playing Animal Crossing with your brother?” If… Continue reading
Pressing the Reward Button for Positive Feedback: Part 2
In a similarly named post, I mentioned the repetitive, intangible rewards children “earn” through playing video games. Their desire for positive feedback and rewards becomes incited to the point of obsession. What if, instead, they became more interested in gaining positive feedback from following God and engaging with the people God made for that purpose? It is… Continue reading
Cast Out Fear in Parenting
Parenting without fear may not come easy to you. But remember 2 Timothy 1:7. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. We may think of this verse when we contemplate witnessing about the power of Christ in our lives. We would do… Continue reading