Protect & Prevent - A Unique Conversation with Your Kids About Life and Social Media

(The podcast may contain sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.)

None of us chose the time, place, or circumstances we were born into and yet we spend our entire lives navigating the ripple effects of those beginnings. And while we rarely control when our story ends, we do have power over the stretch in the middle.
That middle span is critically important and for the next generation, it looks nothing like it did for the generations before them. Our kids are growing up connected to 5.5 billion strangers, shaped by technologies that can distort truth, rewrite identity, and blur the lines between reality and deception.
We have to ask: How do we parent a generation living in a world most adults don’t fully understand? How do we guide them spiritually and morally? How do we equip them with digital survival skills when the rules keep changing faster than we can learn them?
Imagine the teens in your life, their energy, their questions, their potential. Now fast-forward just a few years as they become adults. They’ll be stepping into a world shaped by technologies we can barely predict. The pace of change isn’t slowing down; it’s accelerating.
That’s why the conversations we have right now matter more than ever. It is important to raise a young person that can define their values, recognize truth from altered truth, be able to interact with millions of people that may want to access, groom, recruit and influence them in ways that the older generations would have never encountered. These are not small talks. These are deep, uncomfortable, transformative conversations. So where do we begin?
Start with history. Help them understand just how extraordinary and unprecedented this moment in time really is. The more they understand the world they’re growing up in, the better prepared they’ll be to thrive, not just survive, in it. Yes, they’ve been handed incredible tools but with that comes a level of exposure, pressure, and vulnerability no generation has ever faced.
This episode dives into the urgent responsibility we share to prepare, protect, and empower the young people growing up in this unprecedented digital age.