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Hey Moms and Dads, take a moment to read this:

There’s a lot of talk about kids and television. Ten years ago the average kid swallowed a daily TV dosage of three hours and 47 minutes. You may also know the total reached four hours and 29 minutes of daily viewing by 2009. 

Eye-popping numbers? Yes. But if that’s all you know, then you know less than half the story!
“Media” is a lot more than just television. Add two and a half hours of music/audio; then another hour and a half on the computer; now tally the one hour and 13 minutes of video gaming; factor in 38 minutes of print and (on average) 25 minutes of movie watching. It all begins to add up.

All told the grand total for exposure is ten hours and 45 minutes of media – that’s each and every day of your child’s life. (Source: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation “M2: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year Olds”) 

Okay, nice. Now you know. So what? Mix in eight to ten hours of sleep and we’re talking around four hours left over for stuff like learning the values children need in order to deal with ten plus hours of God knows what. 

Well, God does know. But the question is, do you? 

So let’s talk about monitoring; what can we do to keep an eye on media in our children’s lives? 

  (taken directly from 10 Ways to Monitor Media in Your Child's Life on www.allprodad.com)

As you will discover, this is a little soapbox of mine :)

If our main job as Christian parents is to raise our children to love God with all their hearts, souls, and minds and to love others as themselves, then most of what we let our kids hear, see, and  mentally ingest is absolutely contrary to this.

This Top 10 List from www.allprodad.com is full of wisdom, truth and insight.

Read it, compare it to your own situation, make adjustments as necessary.

Remember, YOU are the parent.  Live into that!