The document discusses the growing concern regarding media consumption among teens and its negative impacts, including decreased face-to-face interactions and increased addiction to social media. It emphasizes the importance of parental control and setting boundaries for media use to promote healthier behaviors and mental well-being. Strategies for managing screen time and mitigating distractions are suggested to encourage more meaningful real-life interactions.

1. Parenting & the Media Challenge!
Ernest Staats, MISA, CISSP CEH .. Info@networkpaladin.org https://networkpaladin.org

2. Average Daily Media Use
60% of teens—ages of 13 to 17—say they spending too much time online
8-12 tweens 6 hours
13-18 teens 9 hours a day
(excluding school time)
Parents 9:22 minutes daily
Minutes for Spiritual Content

3. The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and pay the
penalty. (Proverbs 22:3)

4. Social Media More Addictive Than
Booze and Cigs

5. Considerations Of Social Media
On Face-to-Face Interactions
Decreasing Face-to-Face
Interactions
Decreasing Quality of Face-to-
Face Interactions
Decreasing Relationships
Decreasing Language Skills
Cyberbullying in Social Media
Social Media Addiction
Simon Sinek
“The Millennial
Generation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
xNgQOHwsIbg

6. No Pictures, Please: Taking Photos Found
to Impede Memory of Museum Tour

7. More Time = Less Happy

9. Who or What is in Control
Are we living at the level of
experience ?
Are we controlling the
technology?

10. Culture is catechizing us into its image
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/26/us/star-wars-religion/index.html

12. To Much Screen Time Can Make Us
Oblivious to the world
Oblivious to each other
Oblivious to ourselves
Oblivious to God
Oblivious Ambivalent

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8

14. What is “Brain Hacking”
Brain Changes
https://youtu.be/HffWFd_6bJ0

15. Distractions

16. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/media/Pages/default.asp

18. 1. Media time earned
2. No distractions during homework
3. Set time they can check in
4. No mobile @ meals, at
restaurants, or in the car
5. No TV during the school week
6. No devices charged in the
kitchen…
7. Home Wi-Fi connection times
8. No social media on school devices
9. Break rules 24 hours Detox
10. Digital Sabbath’s
Set boundaries based on Age, Time, Places

19. https://youtu.be/Z7dLU6fk9QY

20. What Steps Are
You Going to Take?