{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Make Your Home a Sanctuary, Not a Screen Zone | Mark Naito of Navigating Tech Family","description":"Note: Around 27:36, Mark shares a brief story from his years in end-of-life care that mentions a father\u2019s abuse of his children. No details are described, but please listen with care if this topic is hard for you. Screens aren\u2019t going away, and Mark Naito isn\u2019t asking you to throw them out. He\u2019s asking a harder question: when you walk through your front door, what gets your attention first, your family or your phone? Mark and his wife founded Navigating Tech Family after their own struggle with screens. He\u2019s a husband, a homeschool dad of two in Boise, Idaho, and a former memory care administrator who spent years with families at the end of life. That experience shapes everything he teaches: nobody\u2019s final wish is more time online. In this conversation, Terrie and Mark talk about: Why the goal is a home sanctuary, not a screen-free life What happens to a child\u2019s creativity and imagination when media fills every quiet moment How fast kids adjust when parents offer real alternatives (faster than the parents do) Simple starting points like screen-free dinners and music without the TV Why switching to a landline actually got Mark more callbacks The quiet ways AI teaches us to doubt our own God-given judgment A sobering end-of-life story about the cost of waiting too long to reconcile If you\u2019ve felt the pull of the phone during family time, or caught yourself trusting a screen over your own wisdom, this episode will challenge you in the best way. Chapters 00:00 Meet Mark Naito and Navigating Tech Family 02:55 A Home Sanctuary, Not a Screen-Free World 04:14 How Screens Affect Child Development 07:31 Discipleship Decks: Conversation Cards for Your Family 09:28 Hope, Creativity, and the Family Tech Reset 13:24 Workarounds: Landlines, Boundaries, and Screen-Free Dinners 18:27 Always On, Never Connected 19:15 AI, Dependence, and Trusting the Mind God Gave You 27:36 Lessons from the End of Life: Don\u2019t Wait to Reconcile 29:52 How to Contact Navigating Tech Family Connect with Mark Naito Navigating Tech Family: navtechfam.com Phone: (208) 586-0432 (Mark\u2019s preferred way to connect, so call a real human!) Resources mentioned Discipleship Decks: Spark a Conversation, Resolving Conflict with the Fruit of the Spirit, and Strengthening Relationships with the One Anothers. Available at hypurpleypublishing.com Up, Down, and All Around discipleship handbook Connect with Terrie terriehellardbrown.com hypurpleypublishing.com Have a question for Mark? Leave it in the comments. We\u2019ll pass along anything we can\u2019t answer and post his reply. Got a topic you\u2019d like us to cover? Tell us that too. A few updated sources for things mentioned in this episode: \u2022 Amazon\u2019s revenue: Amazon passed Walmart in 2025 as the world\u2019s largest company by revenue, at about $717 billion. \u2022 The Waldorf school: The often-cited statistic comes from a 2011 New York Times article (\u201cA Silicon Valley School That Doesn\u2019t Compute\u201d) about the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, where about three-quarters of students had parents connected to the tech industry. \u2022 Tech leaders and their own kids: Bill Gates has said his children didn\u2019t get cell phones until age 14, and Steve Jobs told the New York Times in 2010 that his kids hadn\u2019t used the iPad because \u201cwe limit how much technology our kids use at home.\u201d #ScreenTime #ChristianParenting #FamilyDiscipleship #DigitalWellness #Homeschool #SparkingEverydayDiscipleship ","author_name":"Sparking Everyday Discipleship","author_url":"http:\/\/booksthatspark.libsyn.com\/website","html":"