
When Parental Controls Fail: Teaching Your Kids Digital Literacy
Parental controls can help curb screen time when kids are little, but new research says digital literacy is far more successful over their lifetimes.

Parental controls can help curb screen time when kids are little, but new research says digital literacy is far more successful over their lifetimes.

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We know that parents could use a more holistic, comprehensive look at entertainment and technology—and how we can embrace a proactive, wide, God-honoring strategy in how to deal with them.

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