Category Archives: Family
Digital Diapers? What’s Next?
I seriously laughed when I read the following article (listed below). As many of you know, we have five children. I was never able to get the toddler out of diapers before the next baby came along, so I often had 2 children in diapers at the same time. I was just born too early [...]
Snapchat: This post will self-destruct in 10…
All the latest stats are showing us that teens and college students are getting bored of Facebook. Now – when parents and church leaders are finally figuring out how to use Facebook and what security precautions to take and what impact the “public-ness” of our lives have become to both others around us and ourselves. [...]
What’s in the Bible – digital copy giveaway!
What’s in the Bible is a very favorite with our family. Created by Phil Vischer, of Veggie Tale’s fame, it is a series for children that explores what is in the Bible. Comical puppets, stories and clever songs work together to give children an overview of the Bible. Our family has thoroughly enjoyed the series [...]
I’m NOT Smarter Than My 5th Grader
Yesterday my son Jared, who just turned 10, came home from school and said, ” We learned Prezi today!” While I was happy that he had learned a great presentation tool, I had this weird feeling about the fact that he had learned it before I had! My 5th grader could now teach me how [...]
3 Ways to Help Monitor Video Game Use
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”-Proverbs 22:6 I still remember the day my father told me that he trusted me to make the right decision in my gaming habits. It gave me a sense of responsibility to honor my father’s [...]
What to Buy Bill Gates for His Birthday
In a recent interview Bill Gates was asked what people get him for his birthday. His answer was simple – “Books”. He loves to read and he makes money faster than he can spend so he really doesn’t need anything. By the way, he only made $7 BILLION personally last year. As I read the [...]
A Whole New World of Parenting
Today is the last day of 2012. Time to evaluate this past year and set goals for the next one. Whether or not you set actual New Years Resolutions, evaluating our parenting efforts is important. In fact, it should be done on a very regular basis. The new year just seems like a great time [...]
Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants: In Church?
Digital Natives. Are you a digital native or a digital immigrant? In 2001 Mark Prensky coined these phrases and captured history in the making. In a seminal article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Prensky described students in K-12 classrooms who were very different than the students those classrooms were designed for. They were from a new [...]
Facebook’s New “In a Relationship” Pages
Did you know that when someone sets their relationship status as ” in a relationship” with or “married” to so and so on Facebook, a whole page is actually now created for the couple? Check it out. Visit your own page or a friend’s and click their relationship status and see their page. I think [...]
Digital Redux: Your Sin Will Find You Out
Over the last week the United States press has been furiously covering the shocking revelation of Gen. David Petraeus illicit love affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. The scandle, of course, has all the right ingredients for a media frenzy: power in high places, political intrigue, famous persons, and of course sex. At the time [...]