Understanding Children and Technology

Explore how childhood is systematic, coherent, and organized, with multi-dimensional, interdependent change from infancy to adolescence, and that one size does not fit all, shaped by social construction.

Learn how context shapes a child by evaluating eight context questions - life stage, people, home, genes, personality, blessings, challenges, and events - using goodness of fit to support growth.

Explore how children build self-understanding through three stages—from single representations to representational systems—and how parents support them with age-appropriate technology guidance, open dialogue, and early critical thinking.

Understanding children's spiritual formation frames it as a journey of a child's awareness of God, shaped by adults, and nurtured within a community of faith.

Explore preschool cognitive development through behavioral and psychometric approaches, symbolic development, dual representation, and guided participation shaping children's technology use.

Explore how language develops from preschool to middle childhood, including vocabulary growth and pragmatics. Learn how talking with children and technology can advance their language knowledge and communication skills.

Explore how preschool physical development follows a top-down, inside-out growth pattern with rapid brain growth and evolving motor skills that require movement over screens, plus sleep and nutrition shaping health.

Understand how psychosocial development in middle childhood shapes self-concept, including real and ideal selves and others' opinions, with parent strategies for healthy technology use.

Explore self-definition, self-esteem, and play from preschool to middle childhood, examining how words, praise, and parental feedback shape children's confidence and learning in the technology playground.

Understand self-regulation as the effortful voluntary control of emotions, attention, and behavior, and master three core skills—resisting temptation, waiting for gratification, and cognitive self-awareness—to guide kids’ online freedom.

Adults influence a child’s development by supporting skill growth, providing feedback, and fostering safety, consistency, and intentional relationships across family and community, including thoughtful technology use.

Explore how childhood cognitive development differs from adolescence, moving from concrete, linear thinking to abstract reasoning, and how evaluation, moral development, and identity formation shift.

Explore how adolescent brain maturation alters thinking and self-reflection, and how globalization through technology and the cyber world shapes teen belonging, peer influence, and transitions to adulthood.

Learn how dads can responsibly manage technology costs, avoid debt, make timely purchases, guide tomorrow, and engage with kids through shared games and mindful online choices.

As technology evolves, adjust rules with each stage of your child's growth, stay engaged and monitor their online world, have fun together, and learn with them as technology changes.

Understand and manage children's screen time by recognizing screen types and risks like obesity, sleep disruption, and learning problems. Apply limits, the three-day rule, and consistent monitoring.

Apply the bioecological PPC T framework—process, person, context, and time—to navigate parent–child tech conflicts. Learn how proximal interactions with home, school, and culture shape tech use and development.

Understanding children with adhd explains how attention deficit and hyperactivity affect learning and executive function, and how assistive technology can boost self-reliance and school performance.

Craft excellent questions to have productive talks with your child about technology using the soler posture. Practice active listening, reflection, and insight across spiritual, physical, cognitive, psychosocial domains, including emotions.

Explore how Skype enables you to communicate with your children through face-to-face video, highlighting preplanning, time management, and use categories for interactive demonstrations and storytelling.

Explore the sexualization of children and youth through secular and theological perspectives, and learn how to apply insights personally in this distance-learning webinar.

Explore how children, not little adults, absorb the world as vivid images and patterns, guided by curiosity and inductive reasoning, often misinterpreting relationships between events.

Children form cause-and-effect reasoning about people and experiences, and a 'light bulb' analogy shows sexuality, once introduced, becomes a lasting framework that shapes their world in a highly sexualized environment.

Shows how early exposure to sexualized media shapes brain pathways, behavior, and self-image. Explains consequences on attachment, desensitization, and mental health, including low self-esteem and depression.

Develop a scripture-based approach to guiding children through media and culture, reinforcing purity, disciplined thinking, godly friendships, and parental example to cultivate discipleship and protection.