SUMMER ACTIVITIES Usually we have lots of interest in an episode about activities to do with children during the summer. This week, we sort of extended that to focus on discussions having to do with better thinking. (See product in "shop" for more of this.) Now, this week, I am running a re-run from all the way back in 2008. A young man shared his experience with gaming. Then in 2017, it was popular again. I think a gaming group swarmed through. While the problem with screen addiction is not just gaming, we increasingly are finding that too much screens are a problem. Boys might like games. (Overlooked way too much. Get out in the sun with a ball and a friend!) Youth are susceptible to grooming and bad company over the internet. (Intentional depredation.)  Men have long since recognized that they are vulnerable to porn. (Intentional slavery.)   Even older women, ahem, ma like too much the news.  Too much damages our eyes. Too much warps our view of the world. Too much keeps us from doing other things with PEOPLE face to face. TESTIMONIES OF CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHS So, let me share a testimony for 20 more than 15 years ago. I think it may still help. He was homeschooled. He had his parents fooled. Similarly, a rather famous Bible teacher found that his son was near death on drugs and his daughter had been depredated sexually online. In his home. With two attentive parents! Fortunately, both of his children weathered their storm and work in his ministry now. It can happen to anyone. Learn secondhand! YOUR CHALLENGE TO MAKE SUMMER VALUABLE The good news in this screen addiction challenge, is that it is a needed lesson in self-control. It is an opportunity for bonding and guidance -- like when my parents discussed the vagaries of TV ads and the unethicality of lending based on pay-as-you-go newspaper ads.