Parent University

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For Students: A library just for kids with over 2,000 safe, entertaining videos.

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Foothill Christian School is committed to partnering with parents and offering resources to help them parent in today's world. In this course you'll find four videos that reflect our school's values and offer practical guidance for parenting in today's world.

At Foothill Christian School, we believe childhood is sacred. It's a time for imagination, friendship, and faith to flourish. A positive childhood lays the foundation for a meaningful adulthood, and delaying technology in the home is one of the most powerful ways to protect it. Obviously, technology has value, but when introduced too early, it can pull children away from the growth, rest, and real connection God intends for them.

We're not anti-technology... we're pro-childhood. Research and real-life experience show that delaying smartphones and social media:

• Improves focus, sleep, and emotional health
• Encourages creativity and strengthens family bonds
• Reduces anxiety and depression
• Supports healthy, real-world friendships

WE ARE INTRODUCING A PARENT PLEDGE THAT WE WANT EVERY FAMILY TO CONSIDER SIGNING! IT'S A PLEDGE THAT COMMITS TO RAISING OUR CHILDREN WITH SIMILAR TECH VALUES, MAKING IT EASIER FOR EVERY CHILD TO THRIVE WITHOUT THE PRESSURE OF PHONES AND SOCIAL MEDIA TOO SOON.

As you consider Christmas gifts, remember that one of the most precious presents you can give is the gift of innocence. Choosing to wait on smartphones and social media helps guard your child's heart and keeps their childhood unhurried.

Protect Young Eyes

Watch the RECAP of our Sunday Seminar presented by Protect Young Eyes. This seminar gave us practical tips on how to safe guard our homes when it comes to technology and internet access. Protect Young Eyes has observed what it takes to have kids learn to use technology well, establishing their PYE Core Values. This seminar breaks down these 5 foundational ideas. Do you know what’s better than any parental control? Do you know why your router is the most important digital device in your home? Do you understand the toxic trio? Do you know why TikTok is so intoxicating to young brains? Get ready for a ton of practical tips, solutions, and ideas you can implement right away.

Protect Young Eyes - Student Assemblies

Speaker, Paul Coughlin (COCK-LIN) is the Founder & President of The Protectors, an international, freedom-from-bullying organization that partners with both faith-based and values-based groups to combat bullying, the #1 form of child abuse in the nation and the #1 concern of both parents and students.

His freedom-from-bullying program is used by numerous values-based and faith-based organizations around the world. The Protectors partners with churches across the country, including Saddleback Church’s Justice & Trafficking Initiative in creating the first-ever Justice Begins on the Playground conference, which helps both faith-based and values-based organizations diminish bullying throughout their community.

He will be speaking to our students at chapel during the week on how to create an environment of justice, mercy and hope. Come learn how we as parents can come alongside our kids to support them as we build a community free from bullying.

Ever feel like you and your kids are drowning in a sea of new questions, apps, and devices? Want to talk about digital media more with your kids, but aren’t sure how? Drawing from the best research on media and youth, as well as interviews with parents like you, this seminar will offer new breakthroughs for your most pressing tech-related dilemmas: using social media responsibly, setting limits on device usage without isolating your kids from their friends, and how to handle inappropriate sharing. Ultimately, we want digital media to be a force that helps knit our families together rather than ripping us apart at the seams. Join us for tips to develop a plan that works for your family without making media—or you—the enemy!

Missed the meeting? Watch it HERE. Brad Griffin, Senior Director of Content for the Fuller Youth Institute, shared content from Navigating Our Digital World for parents of elementary, middle, and high school students.

Proverbs commands us to “get wisdom, get understanding”. It says, “Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding...the gain from her is better than from silver and her profit is better than gold.” The promises made to those who get wisdom are astounding!

But where do we find it? Increasingly, people are looking to the internet. We drink from the fountain of social media for hours each day. We gorge ourselves on our favorite news channel or political pundit. We give our attention to authority figures who say what we want to hear.

And then we wonder why we feel sick, hollowed out and exhausted.

Is there a better place to look? Yes and author, Brett McCracken will show us! Inspired by the food pyramid model, the Wisdom Pyramid challenges us to increase our intake of enduring, trustworthy sources (like the Bible) while moderating our consumption of less reliable sources (like social media). If you’ve noticed that we are increasingly divided... If you’re tired of feeling spiritually anemic... If you’re a parent that’s concerned about your child’s social media consumption... If you realize you’re seeking wisdom from the wrong sources... If you want to learn how to feed your soul a nutritious diet... join us!