Michael interviews john about how he handles media, social media, and device usage with his seven children. They discuss how his podcasting and blogging about technology affects his role at home. Links Mentioned WiredHomeschool.com iParent.tv UKnowKids

This week Michael explains the a absence of a podcast and introduces a monthly fundraising goal concept. Regular episodes will resume next week.      

Melinda is back! Michael and Melinda review the top five songs in iTunes as of Tuesday July 22 2014. We review based on our opinion of quality and content. We need your help though, email us to give us ideas for what we should use to review songs and apps

Michael was asked to review an app that introduces children to Bible characters while teaching them to write their ABCs. So Michael asked his kids to help him with the review. Also, he talks about parent's favorite apps for their kids. Plus, Amazon is m

Who's responsibility is it to keep your family's information secure online? Michael discusses this with a little help from James Kennison of NLCast Network.

Michael highlights an article that raises the question: "What does happiness as a motivation for parenting do to our children's morality."

The parent in the news is a dad who had the audacity to miss work for the birth of his child and he's catching some flack for it. We've changed what it means to be a dad in our modern era; we'll look at a list of 19 things that describe this modern dad. M

Michael reads a news story about the dangers of summer for teens and discusses some ways to keep summer fun and stress free for our kids. Then, he shares some highlights from an interview done at the local Christian radio station. Links Mentioned: Teen

Kids and teens do some dumb dumb stuff. In this episode we'll discuss some of the current fads, read about a sad but true parenting fail, and share a bit about the fads we were in to while we were kids. Links Mentioned Four Point Families Guy in the Clos

In this episode Michael takes us through the top five songs on iTunes this week. There's some discussion about online privacy in Parents in the News and the cat's out of the bag as our friends on Facebook share what media intake they snuck behind their pa