[MUSIC PLAYING] We can protect our homes in a number of ways. First thing is, we want to have boundaries around media usage in the home. Phones or tablets or whatever devices get placed in a centralized, parent-guarded location. At night, children don't have devices in their rooms when they're alone at night. What you can say to kids is "When you're alone in your room at night, you're going to experience some loneliness, and you may not know what to do with that loneliness. And your brain's going to want to just numb out from the feeling of being alone and all of the emotions of the day. And if you have a device in front of you that you can use to just unplug from your feelings, you'll probably use it. So if you're feeling lonely and having a hard time going to sleep, then come talk to me and we'll deal with that." So we want to manage media usage in the home, but remember, our children can then walk to the neighbor's house and have instant access to whatever they want there. So we can't stop there.

Technology has made it so easy for pornography and other unsavory things to just be delivered right into our hands, right into our laps. And so parents naturally work to control those limits with their kids. They may have the kids turn in the phones at night; they may have certain hours that they keep the computer on; the computer is in a public place. And those are all good. But as kids mature, they need to be able to learn to set those limits for themselves so that you have an experience where the parent is transferring the limiting from themselves when kids are early and young and learning how to use technology and different things, to the child or the young adult themselves so that they can have the tools in their hands to be successful. We all need to limit different parts of our lives, and we have to be able to do it ourselves. Nobody wants, as an adult, to have somebody else telling us what to do. We have our own conscience, and we have the Spirit. And we need to learn how to set our own limits that are acceptable before God. Parents need to counsel together with their children to set rules and boundaries in a home, regarding technology, where children have an opportunity to voice their opinions and maybe set the rules that then the parents even support. The more they're involved in that counseling, the better the chances are that they're going to want to keep those rules. Parents don't want to be hard-handed on these things. It needs to be something that everybody agrees upon, especially those children. I think it's a good idea to talk about what kinds of daily, personal, family habits will create that wonderful atmosphere that keep our children close to us and talking to us. And it's the old standards that we talk about all the time. But family prayer--when you pray together twice a day or as often as you can manage it with our busy schedules. Scripture study--making the time for that, making that a priority. Holding regular family home evenings. Those are going to be the best filters we have for our children to weed out the evil in the world and to recognize what's right and true and good, that iron rod that we need to hold on to. So let's not forget about those important things that sometimes are the Sunday School answers, but they keep being mentioned because they are important and they are what keep us grounded. One thing we haven't talked about with homes that has been emphasized by our General Authorities very strongly for the last three or four years is the importance of Sabbath day. And I think we're doing better in church at making the partaking of the sacrament a more sacred experience having more meaning in our lives. I think we can continue to do a better job to make the Sabbath day a whole day of refuge in the home, of spirituality, of gospel discussions, of doing good things like family history work. The Sabbath day is also a day when we shut the world out and the things of the world out. Maybe it's a day when we could ask our youth to put their phones away and not text their friends and look at social media, and really make it a family day where we strengthen families and family bonds and have good conversations with one another. I think we've got some room for improvement there, to make the Sabbath day a time to strengthen families. [MUSIC PLAYING]