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October 30, 2020

The Stranger In Your Home: Safeguarding Kids on Devices

The Stranger In Your Home: Safeguarding Kids on Devices By Julie Williams With young kids now spending more time than ever on electronic devices, safe-guarding them from online dangers is crucial. The documentary Social Dilemma alerted us to a new stranger – “the algorithm” – but in this post I suggest we stay alert to…

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October 4, 2018

Something Brighter Than A Screen

I have stumbled across something brighter than a screen. Two nights ago, after the second family movie night in just three days (it’s school holidays) ended in exhaustion-related meltdowns in my youngest kids, Eli (10) and Fynn (8) my oldest kids made some recommendations: Eli: ‘Dad, we like movies and all. But I think we…

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December 9, 2017

8 Tried-and-Tested Ways To Raise Book-Lovers.

My oldest kids (ages 5, 7 and 9) have evolved into voracious readers. For example, Julie and I just took them on a 3 day holiday. Other than beach-going, their recreational preference was reading. Eli and Fynn clocked in hours everyday in pure reading pleasure. Ivy, who can’t yet read, nonetheless flipped through picture book…

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Tag: cultivating-kids, kids-and-books, kids-and-screens
September 15, 2017

Teen Sexting – Everything Parents Need To Know

If only us parents had been more clued up before an online sexual predator targeted the teens in our faith community. Worse still, it was one of our youth leaders who assumed numerous fake online identities to entice over 50 teen boys (from inside and outside of our church) into sending semi-nude or nude online…

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