We must continually protect our children from foolish influences.

1) Internet

• Only when supervised
• Not just for fun
• Not just because they're bored
  • Use Gryphon
  • Use Covenant Eyes
  • Frequently check phones and computer history
    • Keept it random
    • Make it a surprise

2) Social Media

• None is always best
  • How to do it?
    • Get other parents to join you
    • Get your school on board
    • Teach your children to stand alone
  • What to do if you do it?
    • Make it a rite of passage
      • Sign an agreement
      • Write a paper
      • Read a book
        • My Tech-Wise Life
        • Ways your phone is changing you
• Tiktok - dangerous and damaging
  • Emotionally damaging
  • Relationally damaging
  • Legally damaging
  • Purity damaging
• Instagram

3) Music

Have standards

Talk thorugh matters and continually offer biblical wisdom

No one can handle a diet of unBiblical thinking communciated via music

4) Movies

• Be careful
• Always evaluate a movie prior to watching it
• Wait for it to be available via Vidangel or on Clearplay
• Talk about reasons and teach truths

Dave and Bethlie continue their study in Proverbs. This week, they'll continue their focus on Influences That Kill with a special focus on friendships.

We must protect our children from lousy friends.

• The Simple (they lack wisdom)
• The Fool (makes fun of sin; ridicules righteousness)

Lousy friends can quickly undo everything we teach our children

Better to have no friends than to have lousy ones

Amnon (Old Testament) had a friend and it eventually cost him his life

A good friend does right and helps you do right

We must protect our children from lousy friends

1. Choose their friends
2. Insist they sit with you rather than friends
3. Never allow them to be unsupervised (alone)
4. No overnight in another home
5. No teens alone in a car
6. No teens alone on a trip
7. No teens alone in a room
8. Drop out of sports rather than allow teammates to influence your kids in lousy direction

In this episode, Dave and Bethlie discuss the importance of godly and positive influences in the family. They emphasize the need to shield children and ourselves from negative, harmful influences.

Proverbs 13:20

We must emphasize the blessings and dangers of influence.

Proverbs 1:11-19

Proverbs 9:6

The best influences are those that impart righteousness and wisdom.