Helping Teens Build an Identity Beyond the Invisible Audience
Celebrate Kids Podcast with Dr. Kathy

Helping Teens Build an Identity Beyond the Invisible Audience

B1IntermediateSeptember 14, 202621 min

In this episode of the Celebrate Kids Podcast, Dr. Kathy Koch and Wayne Stender explore what can happen when teenagers step away from phones and the constant pressure of being watched. They discuss how device free environments can strengthen belonging and give kids space to be more fully themselves. Parents will be encouraged to create rhythms of presence at home and help them build an identity rooted in character and ultimately in God rather than in an online audience.

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Hey everyone, this is Wayne. And before we jump into today's podcast, I want to let you know that we're brought to you by our friends over at Summit Ministries. Now Summit does some amazing worldview training and equipping for young people, for college age kids, but they're also doing some incredible work creating books that support and encourage us as parents. Dr. Kathy wrote one last

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year with Dr. Jeff Myers. And now we have our friend Arlene Pellecain working with Summit and and they've written a new book called The Great Tech Reset. Again, that's The Great Tech Reset. And I wanna encourage you to go to their website

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and check it out. You can get a request, a free copy actually. If you visit summit.org forward slash parents forward slash the hyphen great hyphen tech hyphen reset,

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