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Publisher: Baker Books (April 18, 2017)
Publication Date: April 18, 2017
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Language: English
ASIN: B01M1SDHYT
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In the Tech-Wise Family, Andy Crouch provides a wise and practical guide for families struggling to navigate an increasingly digital age. As a digital native (who considers himself a "digital refugee" at this point) and soon-to-be-dad, this is the book I was looking for everywhere.In the book, he unpacks ten commitments for tech-wise families:1. We develop wisdom and courage together as a family.2. We want to create more than we consume. So we fill the center of our home with things that reward skill and active engagement.3. We are designed for a rhythm of work and rest. So one hour a day, one day a week, and one week a year, we turn off our devices and worship, feast, play, and rest together.4. We wake up before our devices do, and they "go to bed" before we do.5. We aim for "no screens before double digits" at school and at home.6. We use screens for a purpose, and we use them together, rather than using them aimlessly and alone.7. Car time is conversation time.8. Spouses have one another's passwords, and parents have total access to children's devices.9. We learn to sing together, rather than letting recorded and amplified music take over our lives and worship.10. We show up for the big events of life. We learn how to be human by being fully present at our moments of greatest vulnerability. We hope to die in one another's arms.After each chapter, Crouch gives a "reality check" in which he explains how this *actually* looked in his family. By doing this, he helps readers learn to walk in the tension between establishing good rules and promoting legalism. He is not just writing ideas that have never been tried but things that he and his wife have actually practiced over the past twenty years with their own children.Living according to the commitments Crouch outlines in this book will painful, difficult, challenging, and make us seem a little weird (given the popularity of Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option, maybe that's not a bad thing). But, like many things that are painful and challenging, the reward is so much better than anything we had to give up.I read about digital technology and its effects nearly everyday. This is the book that I've been waiting for. As a pastor, I plan to use this book as a basis for parenting workshops in the years to come.
The first computer I ever owned was an Apple Macintosh Classic II. Released in October 1991, my Mac Classic boasted a 16 megahertz CPU, 2 megabytes of RAM and 40 megabytes of memory — 80 if you splurged. It weighed 16 pounds. I felt privileged as a graduate student to have such computing power on my desk. Some of my peers had to make do with word processors or, even worse, typewriters.Today, my iPhone 6SE weighs 4 ounces, has a 1.85 gigahertz CPU, 2 gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of memory. It wakes me up in the morning, tracks my diet and exercise progress, and handles all my emails, texts and social media. It takes pictures, shoots video and streams movies, TV shows and music on demand. It stores books and magazines that I read, including the Bible. When my kids get bored — or, to be honest, when I get tired of paying attention to them — it entertains them.My Mac Classic was a tool. My iPhone is (almost) my life. And that’s a problem.All of us know how useful technology is. We can do things with it that we cannot do without it. In The Tech-Wise Family, Andy Crouch points out what many of us fail to see as we use technology, namely, that it is changing us and our families, and not always for the better.To understand his point, think of what technology is and what families are for.First, according to Crouch, the defining characteristic of technology is that it is “easy everywhere.†Think of your smartphone. It is easy to use (my 3-year-old has it figured out) and it can be taken everywhere. Twenty-six years ago, I had a phone (landline, not mobile), a camera, a video camera, cassette tapes, a boom box, a TV, videocassettes, a VHS player, boxes of books, stacks of magazines and a computer. Together, they filled a small room and weighed several hundred pounds. Now all those things are accessible on a four-ounce device that fits in my pocket.Second, although families have many purposes, Crouch suggests that its key purpose is “the forming of persons.†This has less to do with “being†(what we are) than “becoming†(who we can be). Becoming a person is a matter of virtue formation, and Crouch focuses on two virtues in particular: “wisdom and courage.†Wisdom, he writes, is “knowing, in a tremendously complex world, what the right thing to do is — what will be most honoring of our Creator and our fellow creatures.†Courage is “the conviction and character to act.†Forming these virtues requires loving relationships: “If you don’t have people in your life who know you and love you in that radical way, it is very, very unlikely you will develop either wisdom or courage.â€Anyone with a family knows that long-term, emotionally intimate relationships are the exact opposite of easy everywhere. The phrase, “There’s an app for that,†applies to many routine tasks, but not to cultivating intimacy with your spouse, rearing your children to be responsible adults, contributing to the wellbeing of society or leaving a legacy for your descendants. These require hard work at specific times and in specific places. Technology and family, in other words, point in different directions.The question Crouch seeks to answer in The Tech-Wise Family is how to put technology in its proper place. How can we use it without our families being overcome by it? Crouch offers 10 principles that his family has tried to live by — not always successfully, he admits.1. We develop wisdom and courage together as a family.2. We want to create more than we consume. So, we fill the center of our homes with things that reward skill and active engagement.3. We are designed for a rhythm of work and rest. So, one hour a day, one day a week, and one week a year, we turn off our devices and worship, feast, play and rest together.4. We wake up before our devices do, and they “go to bed†before we do.5. We aim for “no screens before double digits†[i.e., age 10] at school and at home.6. We use screens for a purpose, and we use them together, rather than using them aimlessly and alone.7. Car time is conversation time.8. Spouses have each other’s passwords, and parents have total access to children’s devices.9. We learn to sing together, rather than letting recorded and amplified music take over our lives and worship.10. We show up in person for the big events of life. We learn how to be human by being fully present at our moments of greatest vulnerability. We hope to die in one another’s arms.To be honest, I found many of Crouch’s suggestions radical, especially when compared to how I and members of my family actually use technology. Crouch jokes that he’s suggesting people become “almost Amish.†He also insists that his family’s commitments need not be your family’s commitments. Still, these commitments and the rationale behind them should spark some new ideas in you, your spouse and your kids, hopefully leading to a chastened use of easy-everywhere devices and a wiser, more courageous home.
This relatively small book took me much longer to get through than I anticipated because I had to stop and chew on the ideas for a while! Andy Crouch presents wonderful guideposts for parents to consider implementing in the homes at some capacity in order to develop children with character, specifically encouraging them to be people with wisdom and courage. The theme of wisdom and courage is carried through the book, and he challenged me to cultivate a home where my kids are experiencing a rich family life that is more rewarding and enticing than the "easy everywhere" entertainment. Crouch is a musician so he places high value on the virtues of learning to play an instrument and singing as a family—something that only this very recent age has stopped doing as a family unit.Final thing: he does address the prevalence and dangers of pornography, but rather than simply advocating that parents take control of their kids' devices and have access to them at all times, he gives solid advice on teaching children that devices are meant to be used together and with a purpose, rather than aimlessly and alone. Putting technology in its proper place is a much more effective way of looking at this issue than only discussing internet filters. The quote he used from Martin Luther has stuck with me, "You can't stop the birds from flying overhead but you can stop them from building a nest in your hair."
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