On this episode of The Disciple‑Making Parent Podcast we hear from Tim Challies on how families can create a truly porn‑free home. We’ll hear about the early exposure risks children face online, share practical tools such as filtering, accountability software, parental controls, and open communication, and walk through a step‑by‑step plan—planning, preparing, meeting, and monitoring—to protect our households.
Resources From This Podcast
Suffering and Our Savior– podcast episode 124 with Tim Challies
Personal Accounts of God’s Goodness in Suffering– podcast episode 125 with Tim Challies
Finding Comfort in Suffering– podcast episode 126 with Tim Challies
Challies.com– Tim Challies’ blog
Covenant Eyes
OpenDNS
Chap Bettis: I’m Chap Bettis, and you’re listening to The Disciple-Making Parent, where we seek to equip parents and churches to pass the gospel to their children. A porn-free family. Is that even possible today? And if so, how do we go about it? Hi, my name is Chap Bettis, and I’m the author of The Disciple-Making Parent. This is our second podcast on technology, in which we listen to Tim Challies as he instructs us. Tim came to our church in Providence, and we had him conduct two small, or mini, conferences. On Friday night, he spoke on suffering, and you can find those at The Disciple-Making Parent Podcast number 124, 125, and 126. And then on Saturday morning, he addressed us about technology, and you’re going to hear his second talk on how to make your house porn-free. Now, I’m going to warn you, in this day and age, it will take effort, and many people don’t want to make that effort. But if you will, it’s worth it.
Well, Tim Challies is a well-known blogger who’s been blogging daily at challies.com for over 20 years. He’s posted 15,000 posts. He’s a well-known author of numerous books. He’s married to Aileen, and they have three children, Nick, who’s in heaven, Abby, and Michaela, and he serves as a pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto, Canada.
Well, before we start, I want to remind you of our newest resource, Managing Your Households Well, and it’s for church leaders and aspiring church leaders. Because 1 Timothy 3, it tells us that we’re to oversee our homes well. What does that mean? Well, one part of that has to do with overseeing how our children and how we interact with technology, and we’ll be talking a little bit about that in this podcast. But there’s so much more, and I want to encourage you to check out this resource. You can find it wherever Christian books are sold, and I’d encourage you to study it as a leadership team. The book is Managing Your Households Well– plural, church household and my family household- How Family Leadership Trains You for Church Leadership. That’s Managing Your Households Well: How Family Leadership Trains You for Church Leadership.
And of course, the second resource we always highlight, we love giving away the audiobook of The Disciple-Making Parent. So just head on over to our website, thedisciplemakingparent.com. That’s available for you and any of your friends. Sign up for our weekly newsletter, and we’re going to give you the whole audiobook of The Disciple-Making Parent absolutely free. We’re on a mission to equip parents and grandparents to raise their children to love the Lord. But for now, let’s listen in as we think about how to keep our family porn-free.
Tim Challies: This time I want to get practical, similar to yesterday evening. I want to be very practical about one of the main ways that digital technologies impact our families. And one of the ironies of my life is that for a long time I was traveling all over the world talking about something I hate, which is pornography and its effects on individuals and families. What I call “porn-free family” was simply a means to discuss all these problems that come through the internet. We can talk about all the benefits that come. We’ve done that to some degree. But I think what parents and what individuals really want to know is, how can I mitigate the negative effects that come with it? And the most obvious of these, I think, or the most prominent to many of our minds, is pornography. But I think if you solve this one, you solve many of the others. Or if you really work hard to prevent pornography coming into your home, coming into your life, into your family members’ lives, if you deal with this one, I think many of the others, become resolved as well.
I know many people want to protect their home, protect their family, but they don’t really know how. And so what I want to do is just kind of lay out a plan that you could adopt in your home, whether that’s just you in your home, whether you and your spouse, whether you and children. And this was essentially what we integrated in our home many years ago and found it effective.
You know, there’s some people who are out there on the front lines fighting pornography in the levels of legislation, et cetera. I’m all for that. God bless them. And I really hope that there’s some great strides that can be made. But my emphasis is more, let’s talk to families, let’s talk to individuals, let’s think about prevention, training, recovery, and so on. So as you know, especially if I’m speaking to parents, there’s more you need to protect your children from than pornography. But I think if you do this well, we’re essentially here making an argument from the greater to the lesser. If you help with this, I think the rest will begin to resolve itself.
So let me just give you five critical facts about the internet today and how it’s impacting families. I’ll focus especially on pornography. I don’t always put a lot of stock in statistics, but again, I think they can be helpful in waking us up to some of the reality. So exposure to pornography happens early. I mentioned this earlier on, but around 11 years old is when most children will see something that they shouldn’t see. And I’ll try and say this carefully, but this isn’t what your grandparents were exposed to back in their day. Things have degraded massively since then. Children may be exposed to things that are really, really terrible, the kind of things that really confuse them as to what sexuality even is. And it’s different than when we were kids or our parents were kids in that they probably had to go looking for it to some degree. Today it goes looking for you. The opposite is true.
And I don’t know if you’ve seen this. Recently I decided to essentially start a new account on X or Twitter, just start fresh, give it just minimal information about me and just kind of see what it would feed me. And it was amazing to me. It knew I was a nearly 50-year-old man in suburbia. It did not take long for it to start feeding me stuff that was just abjectly sexual and abjectly racist, just trying to feed me things that would either make me revolt or draw me in. And so the algorithms are out to get us. This stuff’s coming to look for you, coming to look for your children as future customers, draw you in. Average age at first exposure is around 11.
93% of boys, 62% of girls are exposed to pornography during their adolescent years. And again, not just the kind of pictures your grandparents might have seen or you might have seen pinned up in somebody’s garage back in the day. This is stuff that’s really, really shocking and vile. One website last year, just one website, and there’s millions of them, one website saw 7.1 billion hours of video played to its users last year. That’s just one of the many sites, over 7 billion hours. So exposure happens early. It happens often.
57% of young adults admit to using at least once per month, engaging themselves in that. Half of young adults would say all of their friends or most of their friends access it on a regular basis. So it happens often, and often exposure also happens everywhere. An author I was reading recently said, “It seems so obvious. If we invent a machine, the first thing we’re going to do after making a profit is to use it to engage in pornography.” So we invented the mobile phone, as I said earlier. One of the very first uses of it didn’t take long before it devolved to that. That’s always the way it goes. Around 87% of pornography is viewed on mobile devices now. That means that pornography is ultra-portable. Wherever you go, it goes with you. And one out of every five searches that’s done on a mobile device is a search specifically for pornography. So when you’re giving your child a phone, you’re giving them a device that is used predominantly, or in large part, for this purpose. Yeah, 87%. That’s obviously been rising very quickly.
Even when I started doing these presentations, it was down in the 40s or 50%, but it’s now up to 87%. And just think about the fact that when Covenant Eyes or a software like that came out, the idea was, get a family computer, install the software on your family computer, put it in a public location within the house, and you’ll probably be okay, and you probably were. But the game has changed an awful lot today when it’s now on mobile devices. 62% of teens and young adults say they’ve received a sexually explicit image, that somebody sent it to them. 41% have sent one to somebody. Women and girls are far more likely to receive these images than males are.
Then exposure changes people. 50% of men who say they’re Christian would also say they’re addicted to pornography, and about 25% of Christian women would say the same. We know now that pornography has a way of essentially rewiring our brains, changing the way we behave. We know that it’s addictive in the same way as drugs and alcohol are addictive, just in the way it provokes the human brain.
36% of young adults say they look to pornography to learn about sexuality. It’s their training tool now for how to understand what sexuality is. And as young adults, and it rises as you get older, people use it even more as a training tool. They think that will show them what’s normal and what’s good. The ramifications of that I won’t talk about here, but are absolutely repulsive in what people take to be normal and then try and act out is horrific. And so we’re being changed. Our kids are being changed.
And then exposure causes shame. We can monitor what causes shame by understanding how people respond or react to a situation, right? Adam and Eve felt shame. We knew because they ran and they hid from God. And so 71% of teens have done something to hide what they’ve done online. They’ve tried to hide their actions, their activities from their parents. Husbands hide it from their wives. Wives hide it from their husbands. Friends hide it from one another, et cetera. This changes and shapes us. We feel the shame of it, and so we try to cover up what we’ve done. So there are lots of concerning things we need to think about.
But I do want you to take heart. I want us to be encouraged because we always have hope. God is good. God is forgiving. God is for us. God is for our children, and so we can deal with this. But if we’re going to deal with this, if we’re going to raise children well in this world, and if we ourselves as individuals are going to live well in this world, we need a plan. We need to understand that pornography is just too powerful, and it’s too alluring, and it’s too available. It’s too present. It’s too much coming after us for people to avoid it. So unless you actively fight against it, it will come after you. You’ll fail. It seems all but inevitable, and so you need to have a plan, especially for those who are younger. Right?
Over time, as a Christian, you grow up, you develop habits, you become resistant, hopefully, against certain sins, right? Just by the power of God’s strength, these certain sins, they fade in their temptation. They no longer have the interest they once did. But for younger people especially, you need to have a plan because this is coming after you. It wants you. It’s one of Satan’s greatest tools right now to draw people away from the Lord, get them bound in sin and shame, et cetera.
So if you’re going to put together a plan, I would say that plan ought to have three big goals. The first goal is to train. Teach and train, especially younger people, how to use the internet, how to use their devices responsibly. And again, I want to say we can’t avoid these devices. As a parent, you can’t just opt out and say, “I don’t want my children to live in a world like this one.” Sorry, you can’t do that. It, it falls to you to train your children how to use these devices well. By the time your children are starting to leave your care, you should have some confidence that they know how to use this thing well. So you can’t just wait until they’re 20 and say, “You do whatever you want.” No, it’s part of raising them, part of training them. That falls to you.
Number two, the second goal is to guard. Guard people from seeing or experiencing what they know exists, what they may want to experience. The innocent ought to remain innocent without being unintentionally exposed to things that are dangerous or degrading or that they shouldn’t see.
Then the third part is to prevent. Prevent children or others from seeing things they really want to access. Kids are taught to use the internet to find answers to all of their questions, and our kids are full of questions. Of course they are. So it’s very natural for our children to go to the internet. It’s very natural for all of us to go to the internet and just start typing in their questions, right? That’s how we do things today. And as they do that, they’re very likely to be exposed to material they shouldn’t see. They may find they want to go to that material. Your children may have a desire to see these things, and so your job is to prevent them from doing that. We need to be realistic. It very unlikely that most children will get through their childhood and get through their teenage years without seeing things they shouldn’t see. So we also need to train them how to respond to that. What do you do when you encounter it? It’s just a sad fact of life in this world.
Now, I do want to speak about one danger. You need to be very aware of the danger of a plan that extends to the children but ignores the parents, or where you have expectations of your children that you yourself aren’t going to maintain. And so that might be related specifically to pornography, or it might be you’re telling your children, “You need to use your phone less,” but you live your whole life in front of your phone. Kids are very, very good at detecting that kind of hypocrisy in their parents. And hypocrisy is one of the greatest dangers of a parent. And so you need to be aware of a plan that might extend to your children, but you exempt yourself. Dad can’t protect his family from pornography if Dad himself is looking at pornography.
So let’s talk about the porn-free family. Put together a plan that will train and guard and prevent. How do we do that? Well, our temptation, and I think this is generally true for all of us, our temptation is to see if a problem has been caused by technology, we should be able to find a solution that relies on technology. Whenever tech causes a problem, we want tech to solve the problem. But really, technology doesn’t cause this problem. Technology just exposes the evil desires within. There would be no pornography if there weren’t lustful hearts. So what we need is we need to account for technology and character. We want to use technology to hold off temptation or to hold back temptation while we focus on the development of character.
And this is where so many people, I think, go wrong. They only do prevention, right? They keep their children away from seeing these things, but they’re not at the same time helping them positively develop character, Christian character, godly character. And so then once their kids can access it, once they’re out from underneath the watch of their parents, then they might fall into it whole hog. And so then I speak to a college group, and they come up to me shame-faced, and yeah, they’re ashamed of what they’ve done. They’re scared of what they’ve done and their proclivity to this. And so it’s so important that we do not neglect character. We can’t just trust technology. We need to rely on character.
So the plan has four parts. I’ll go over them briefly. The first is planning. You need to just spend some time planning out your plan. Then you need to spend some time preparing. You’ve done your planning, now it’s time to do some preparatory work. Then you need to meet together with your household, with your family, whoever it is. Discuss what’s new and different, discuss expectations. And then there’s this long process of monitoring. I’ll go over these in just a little bit more detail. This kind of plan generates information that you need to respond to. So plan, prepare, meet, and monitor.
Planning stage: a plan that’s going to protect family members, protect household members from pornography needs to account for at least three different kinds of devices. Fixed devices, like a computer that might be attached to a desk or something, just sits there, it never goes anywhere. It needs to account for mobile devices, the devices you can take with you wherever you go, and it needs to account for other people’s devices. A lot of people get exposed to things through the device somebody else has. Somebody comes into your home and brings a phone with them and shows your child something. They’re at church. So what’s stuck in your home, what can be taken out of your home, and what children or others might use in somebody else’s home. So a plan needs to account for all of these.
So the first thing you need to do is just kind of inventory your household and see what devices you’ve got there. You’d be surprised how many devices can be used to access the internet, how many devices can display images that have been drawn from the internet. You got your computers, your laptops, your mobile phones, your iPads, your gaming devices, Kindles, on and on. Yeah, you might be surprised just looking around. How many devices do we have that have internet access and a screen? You’ve got to know just what you’re dealing with.
Then you need to think about budget. It probably going to cost you a little bit of money on a monthly basis to be able to really hold back this stuff. Probably $20 to $25 a month is a realistic budget to integrate a good plan.
Then you need to learn, you need to educate yourself on the kinds of tools that are available to you There’s broadly four kinds of tools that you can use. There’s filtering tools. Filtering proactively detects and blocks websites that might contain objectionable content. So you try and go to that website, and a filter says, “No, you can’t see that website. Nobody in this household can see that website.” There’s accountability software. You’re probably familiar with that. It just tracks what you’ve done. It may not prevent you from seeing it, but it will track it, and it will then provide a report to somebody else. “Here are all the things this person has seen in the last week.” There’s parental controls parents can use. You don’t have to be a parent to use them, but they block certain functions of devices, so you may not go to this website, or you may not buy new apps, or you may not do things like that. And then the fourth tool would be communication, right? Again, we tend to believe that technology will solve technological problems, but we also need to use the tool of communication to speak openly and honestly with one another So you need to choose the tools.
These are the categories of tools. You’ve got your filtering, and accountability, and parental controls, and communication. You actually need to choose certain tools, and there’s some good ones available. So something like OpenDNS, it uses filtering to block objectionable websites. You can install it on a home level, and it will block everything in your home from being able to access certain sites. And you can say adult sites or specific sites, and you can say, “We only want sites that are appropriate for children.” Even then you need to know what that software deems appropriate for children. It might think that drag queens dancing for children is perfectly appropriate. You need to sort of be aware of where it’s at.
Accountability software, you’ve probably heard of Covenant Eyes. It’s still a very good software package to use. You install it on computers and mobile devices, and it simply tracks what you’ve done and then sends a report to somebody. Parental controls are available on all mobile devices now, all computer devices now, so parents can go in, set a password, and then behind that password, they can decide what functions of that device will be available and unavailable to children. So that allows you, for example, to give your child an old iPhone, but it can really only be used to send messages to mom and dad or to call mom and dad if you want it to do that. It can lock it right down, to that level. And then the most indispensable tool, of course, is communication: just regular, open, deliberate communication between family members, household members, parents and children.
So you need to learn what the tools are, that are available to you and then choose them. Just choose which ones you’ll use.
You need to make some decisions and this can be hard. So will you allow children to access the internet on their mobile devices? It’s a decision you have to make. What is the earliest age you’ll allow your children to use devices on their own without mom and dad being right there? Who will have the authority to access your children’s devices at any time to monitor what they’re doing and what they’re saying? Is that something you’re going to expect? “I can go to you at any time, take your device, and see what you’ve been doing.” Or do you believe your children should have some privacy with that device? And maybe you’d say, “Is it okay if I look?” You need to make a decision about that. Will you allow your children to use their devices in private spaces? “Go ahead, go to your room. Close the door. You can use your phone there,” or, “You can only use your phone when you’re sitting in the living room and I’m present.” Decisions you need to make.
In general, I recommend that as few devices as necessary be given access to the internet. I do not recommend you allow young children to have access on mobile devices. Generally, I think it’s wise, especially for younger children, if they’re going to use the internet in any way, use it in view of parents, in public areas. And there’s a growing body of evidence to say that it’s wise to withhold all of these mobile devices from your children until they’re well into their teens. There’s a growing number of people who are saying that’s probably the wisest thing of all. I’ll try and talk about this a little bit later. That generally depends upon a whole community doing it. So you can tell your children, “We don’t want you to have a Facebook account until you’re a certain age,” but then the youth group is communicating through social media or using Facebook to communicate. I think it takes a community to decide, a school community, church community, to say, “Here’s our expectation. We’re going to try this together as a community project.” And if everybody can agree to that, then it’s far more successful than if your child is the one who’s being left out, can’t communicate with friends, can’t communicate with peers, et cetera. So you decide and then you discuss. Sit down with your family, tell them, “Here’s what we’re going to do. Here’s the new plan, and this is why we’re doing it.”
And you’ll be inconveniencing your family, especially if they have been using these devices and now you’re starting to pull things back. They’ll be probably annoyed that their friends can do certain things that they can’t. You’ll have to discuss that with them So there’s planning stage, and then there’s the preparing stage, which is miserable but has to be done. This is where you get the system set up and functioning. You go from theory to practice. So you’re starting to create passwords. At the very top of the list, you’re creating this master password that you’ll be using to unlock everything. Make sure it’s a good password. Something that’s easy to remember but hard to guess is the trick. You need to create passwords for your kids as well. Make sure only they know their password because you’re going to be passwording these devices, so you know who’s using this, et cetera. Create passwords that are easy for them to remember but hard for one another to guess. You need to create accounts. This laborious phase of downloading software and creating accounts for all of the OpenDNS or Covenant Eyes computers, et cetera. You’re installing this software, installing these things on your computer. This can take a half day going around to all these different devices, creating accounts, installing these things. It’s a bad business, but it’s got to be done. And too many people give up because of the friction, because it’s just annoying. But if you really believe this is important, then you’ll believe this is an investment that’s worth making.
Then you need to go and install those parental controls, so you’re ensuring the device is locked as soon as they’re no longer in use. So you can’t just leave your phone, walk away, and, and someone else can grab it. Turning off that web browsing ability so children can’t use the internet on mobile devices. Make sure you’ve got Covenant Eyes installed and monitoring things purposely. Turn off the ability to install new apps without inputting the master password. Turn off the ability to children change their own passwords, et cetera. Again, it’s a miserable business, but it just has to be done, locking things down. You’ll probably lock things too much at the beginning. You can start to relax them. You’re just kind of putting all these controls in place out of love for your children, out of love for your family, and out of a concern for them.
Camera access is another very good thing to seriously consider disabling, at least initially. And be especially cautious about any sort of social app that combines the use of a camera. There’s just been some really alarming cases of people blackmailing young people. And we’ll talk about that specifically, but you can imagine how that happens. Social media, again, there’s a growing body of evidence that young children really shouldn’t be using social media at all. I’m so thankful my one daughter, Michaela, who’s now 19, she just kind of had this self-knowledge that if she got onto social media, she would have an eating disorder in short order. And so she just had the self-control not to get on social media. So this was never a battle for us, but we know it would’ve harmed her. And I’m just so thankful this wasn’t a battle we had to fight with her, because it really could’ve impacted her in really deeply negative ways
So you plan and you prepare, and then you meet. Time to meet. Just talk to your family. We’re going to lay out the expectations. Now, it was years ago that I and my family went through exactly this process we’re talking about here. And, you know, I was really trying to be a good dad. I talked to my wife about it. We had realized this is what we’re going to do. So I sort of assumed my family would be like, “Yes, Dad loves us, and he’s looking out for us.” But it was actually much more like this. It didn’t go over well. And it’s not like there were people in the family who desperately wanted to look at pornography or anything. They weren’t into that. But they were just annoyed by the fact that now they needed passwords to do everything. They couldn’t do everything they wanted to do on their device, and it felt to them like I didn’t trust them, right? Well, because I didn’t trust them. Because I know what’s in the heart of man. I mean, I love them, and I trusted them as far as I was able to trust a 13-year-old or a 15-year-old. And I think their motives were good, they just didn’t understand the human heart well enough.
Years ago, I wrote an article about why my family doesn’t do sleepovers, and I pass no judgment on anyone who does sleepovers. But I just wrote, “Here’s why we don’t do sleepovers.” Just things in our past, things we had observed, things we had experienced. My family hated that. This was a battle for years because our kids wanted to do sleepovers. And it was only as they grew up and our kids took counseling classes, they started to hear about what can happen during sleepovers, and my kids said, “Dad, thanks. We understand now.” And I think the same is true of things like this. It will annoy them at the beginning. They won’t understand it because they don’t want to do these things. They’re not interested in pornography, but you know it’s out to get them. You know what’s in the heart of a teenage boy, or what may be in a teenage boy’s heart, and so you’re looking out for them.
Maybe you’re just not wanting them to experience what you experienced or to go through what you went through when a plan like this wasn’t in place to protect you. And so we had to meet, and we just had a family meeting, kind of explained what we were doing and why we were doing it, and that this was out of love for them, and just explained, “I love you guys, and I want you to be able to talk to Mom and me. If you’re struggling with something, if you’ve seen something, if you’ve experienced something, we’re open. We won’t be angry at you. We want to help you.” And we also said that we’ll be using the same standards. We’re not going hold ourselves to a lower standard than you. This will be for all of us.
Then in ongoing meetings with the kids- One of my habits when I had younger kids was to take one of my kids out for breakfast every Saturday morning. And that was an expensive thing to do, though we found if you got there at 6:59, it was cheaper than if you got there at 7:00. So get the kids up early, get the cheap breakfast, and just talk about stuff like this, just open conversation. Some weeks just light, enjoying one another, other weeks deliberate conversation. But are you struggling? Have you experienced something? Are you annoyed at me? Whatever it is, just open communication. I think of all the things we did as parents, those Saturday morning breakfasts and family devotions are the ones that I think in a sense paid the biggest dividends. Just helpful times with our kids, showing we love them and opening up channels of communication. And it’s so important. It’s so important. This is helping your children develop the character that will really sustain them in the end. So you’re using all this technology to hold things at bay while they’re in these formative years and trusting that by God’s grace, they’ll come to faith, they’ll start to grow in godly character, and then they won’t necessarily need all of this stuff. They won’t need it because they will have grown in character enough that they don’t need this.
I understand there are some people who will forever use Covenant Eyes on their computer, and that might be the right thing. But ultimately, what we want is to be is to have grown in sanctification enough that we can stop using these things because it’s no longer a temptation. And again, we live in a really broken world, and we’re really broken people, so maybe we won’t ever get to that point, and that’s okay. But what we ultimately want is our kids to grow in character to the degree that this is no longer a temptation for them, and we don’t need all these sort of artificial measures. So we’re blocking access in their younger years to allow them to grow in character, not to set them back by going down addictive trails, et cetera. All the while, we’re not relying on technology alone. We’re teaching them, we’re training them, we’re discipling them, we’re helping them. So we’ve planned, we’ve prepared, we’ve met, and now we’re monitoring.
It’s not fun. It’s one thing to get all motivated and set up the system, but like any system in this world, it needs to be monitored, right? There needs to be that ongoing maintenance. That means we’re reading these reports that come in, these accountability reports, right? They’re, they’re not very well formatted, they’re annoying to look at, and yet they’re crucial. Reports from something like OpenDNS. It’s seeing what people are searching for. Again, it can provide you a report. You just have to look at that because you want to catch … If your kids are struggling, and that struggle is being expressed through what they’re looking for, it’s important that you as parents, you catch that, and you can speak into it. Don’t approach them angrily. Don’t go and rebuke them. Just go and help them, love them, care for them. Be gentle and patient And then you need to adjust over time.
As your kids get older, hopefully you can start scaling these things back a little bit, right? It would be good if by the time they head off to college, the measures in the house match the measures they’ll have at college. This was probably some basic filtering, but there won’t be people hovering over them and looking at their every report. You want your children to grow up to such a degree that they’re prepared to face the world as it is. So you’re adjusting accordingly, and then you’re just maintaining this thing, which is running updates on software and checking in, make sure passwords are still good. Just all that ugly maintenance. Any system in the world needs to be maintained or else it… Everything in this world tends toward chaos, not order, right? And so even a system like this, you can put it in place, but unless you keep making it more and more orderly, it’ll just spin down toward chaos and become even more annoying and much less useful.
So there’s a long ongoing maintenance monitoring for the system. So that’s the plan we implemented as a family many years ago. It’s a plan I’ve helped other people implement, and I can say, honestly, I think it can be effective, but it really depends on you as parents, depends on you as people who are in charge of the household, first, using technology for the right purpose, which is holding these things back, sort of manning the gates while the people within the household are growing in character. Growing in character, putting sin to death, coming alive to righteousness, and I think this combination can be powerful.
And I think by God’s grace, it was effective in my home and has been effective in many others.
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