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Now That We're A Family

385: Changing Our Minds About Screens

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0

So crazy, looking back, Alexia.

0:01.9

Yeah.

0:02.5

Like, I would have never thought we would have been those parents.

0:05.2

And then looking back, it's still hard for me to believe that we did that.

0:09.5

Our children were only viewing screens as this mean of entertainment and of pleasure.

0:16.1

And it was all they want, even though they would only do it for, you know, 30 minutes a day, say,

0:21.0

it's what they wanted all day long. That's the same reason we got rid of it for ourselves is

0:25.9

because we wanted to, I felt like we were doing our kids a favor, where we were all like, wait

0:29.9

a second, there's so much more to life that we want to experience. And it seems like we keep

0:35.1

gravitating towards the screens. Let's just eliminate these things.

0:39.9

Howdy folks, welcome back to the podcast.

0:42.8

As many of you know, Katie and I made the decision a couple years back to become a screen-free family.

0:50.1

No smartphones, no tablets, no iPads, a laptop computer, no televisions, no iPads a laptop computer no televisions no 3d printers might

0:59.5

those aren't screens no um blue ray anything no blurays no tele what did i what else is i'm

1:07.2

trying to think of other screen things um what do people use for screens and

1:11.3

how how do do other people consume screens i don't know i mean i yeah you know i think you covered

1:18.6

a lot of them uh yeah no projectors in our home and uh and maybe we've changed since last

1:26.4

time you heard us share an update on what we're doing

1:28.5

with screens.

1:29.5

In fact, we probably have changed because we have experienced a recent change in this MO within

1:35.2

our household.

1:36.0

So we're going to share, show we're going to share what that new MO is in the Vogtberg household.

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