Digital Cocaine

Have you noticed more aggressive behaviour in your children when they've been on digital devices for a half hour or more?

Have you been given 'the look' or a mouth full of disrespectful 'attitude' from your child when you've asked them to get off their device?

Are you feeling helpless and lost as to how to get your precious child back from their insatiable hunger for digital media?

If you've answered 'yes' to one or more of these questions then you're in there with the vast majority of parents.  But there is an answer.

Brad Huddleston, international expert on digital technologies, provides amazing explanations and insights as to what science has proven is happening to your child when they engage with digital media.

Amazing as it sounds, but the brain doesn't know the difference between half a line of cocaine and an hour playing a video game!  It responds without prejudice, releasing a powerful natural chemical that can lead people to wanting more, and eventual addiction.

In Digital Cocaine, Brad Huddleston will replace your confusion, hesitancy and fear as it relates to the digital world with the facts that can make you and your family safer and more secure from day one.   See The Dark Side of Technology website for more information.  Visit the DVD Review/Sample DVD.

To purchase the Digital Cocaine DVD in Australia, go to Vision Christian Media Store.

Getting Along - The Key

There is a key that fits every relationship door.  It opens the door regardless of culture or where in the world you may live.

That key is Respect.

The word 'Respect' conjures up many things in people's minds and depending on your perspective, it can be something that is liberating or it can be something that creates great internal conflict.

To respect does not mean to agree with or side with.  In a simple way, it means to accept that others may think and act differently to you for their own reasons.  And these reasons will remain unknown to you unless you win their confidence and show a genuine interest in their thinking and reasoning.

In this same way, a journalist can sit down face to face with the leader of a terrorist organisation and learn why they are so passionate about their cause and what they're willing to do for it.  The journalist would not be afforded the same opportunity if they were to seek an interview just so that they could attack that leader and their organisation in the Press.

We're challenged every day in our relationships with others, as you'd expect when you're in among 7.4 billion other people, all of who have different personalities, life experiences, and influences.  We can't change people to our liking so our best chance of getting along is to do things God's way, starting with Respecting others (1 Peter 2:17).

'Getting Along' is a new series about life from a fresh perspective.  See the article at Getting Along (#3) The Key.

Note:  Interesting thing about respecting others...it may take effort but it doesn't change anything about who we are - it just creates a much better space in which to get along.