Social Media Spoiling Your Child?—How the Bible Can Help Parents

In the June 17, 2024 New York Times newspaper, Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. surgeon general say: “The mental health problem getting serious among young people. And social media da one of the main thing da causing it.

How parents can protect their children from the danger that social media can cause? The Bible give this advice dem.

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“The shrewd one ponders each step.”—Proverbs 14:15.

Don’t feel that it force for your child to use social media, when you know the problem it causing. Before you allow your child to use social media, make sure that they mature to know how much time to spend on it, how to make and keep good friends and they must also know what to look at and what to not look at.

• To learn more, read the articles “My Child Must Use Social Media?” and “How to Teach Your Children to Use Social Media the Right Way.”

“[Make] the best use of your time.”—Ephesians 5:16.

If you want allow your child to use social media, make rules on how they must use it, and explain how those rules will protect them. If your child behavior changing because of using social media, then you must control the way they using it.

• Use the Video They Make From Drawing Be Social-Network Smart to help your child to understand why it good to control the amount of time they must spend on social media.

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The Bible says we living in “critical times hard to deal with.” (2 Timothy 3:1-5) But the Bible give us advice that can help us to bear it in this last days. In this article Mental Health Problem Getting Plenty Among Young People, we can find more than 20 different-different Bible-based article that can help parents and their children.