While the basics of parenting remain the same, issues involving technology have left many parents wondering what limits are appropriate, how to hold their children accountable for misuse of technology, and how to help kids learn the decision-making skills required to make healthy technology choices when they leave home.
There’s good news! While these modern issues are definitely challenging, we can achieve success by applying some age-old parenting truths:
- Kids need limits.
- Limits are best set through actions
instead of hollow threats.
- When kids make poor decisions,
they need to experience natural or logical consequences.
- Consequences are always more
effective when provided with loving empathy.
- Our kids will learn how to live
their lives by watching us.
- "You may have your tablet as
long as there is no arguing when I ask you to shut it off."
- "Feel free to have a cell phone
when you can pay for the entire cost."
- "We allow kids to have their
internet-connectable devices as long as they check them in with us each
night. We’ll return them in the morning as long as there are no problems."
- "I’ve met plenty of good people
who’ve ended up doing bad things on the internet. That’s why your mom has
all of my passwords and is free to see my history. You may have this
device as long as you do the same. Everyone needs someone to hold them
accountable."
- "I’m shutting my phone off so that I can give you 100% of my attention. Thanks for doing the same."
Praying these simple ideas will help us all in our parenting of this precious generation.
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