Notes From the Journey

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Building a Legacy: Creating Family Culture That Produces Multi-Generational Leaders

Part 5 of 5-part series "Beyond the Screen: Building Leaders Who Master AI Instead of Being Mastered by It"

Any strategic professional knows that the best systems are designed to operate reliably long after their creator moves on. Your family culture is the most important system you'll ever design—and it needs to produce leaders for generations you'll never meet.

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AI Will Make Our Kids Smarter or Intellectually Lazy: The Choice Is Ours

Discover how AI can either dramatically enhance your child's intelligence or create dangerous intellectual dependency—and why the difference lies entirely in how you teach them to use these powerful tools. Learn practical age-appropriate guidelines for AI use, recognize early warning signs of dependency, and understand how to raise AI-enhanced thinkers rather than AI-dependent users

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Raising Leaders or Followers? How Social Media Is Teaching Our Kids to Conform

Discover why college students today score 40% lower on empathy measures than 30 years ago and how screen-based childhoods are undermining children's ability to feel and respond to others' emotions. Learn the spiritual and relational consequences of the empathy crisis, recognize early warning signs in your children, and get practical strategies to rebuild compassion and emotional understanding in your family.

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The Empathy Crisis: Why This Generation Struggles to Care About Others

Discover why college students today score 40% lower on empathy measures than 30 years ago and how screen-based childhoods are undermining children's ability to feel and respond to others' emotions. Learn the spiritual and relational consequences of the empathy crisis, recognize early warning signs in your children, and get practical strategies to rebuild compassion and emotional understanding in your family.

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Digital Dopamine: Why Your Child Can't Enjoy Simple Pleasures Anymore

Understand how technology is chemically hijacking your child's reward system, making simple pleasures like reading, creative play, and family time feel boring and unrewarding. Discover the neurological and spiritual consequences of digital dopamine addiction, and learn a practical recovery process to help your children rediscover joy in everyday moments and develop the contentment that leads to spiritual peace.

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When Your Child Trusts Google More Than You: The Death of Parental Authority in the Information Age

Last week, I caught myself checking my phone for the third time while reading a single page of a book. The uncomfortable realization hit me: I've been rewired for notifications. If this is what constant interruptions have done to my adult brain—one that was fully formed before smartphones existed—I can only imagine what it's doing to my children's developing minds. We're raising the first generation whose brains are being fundamentally rewired by constant interruptions, and the consequences go far beyond shortened attention spans.

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How to Explain AI to Your 5 and 7-Year-Old: A Dad's Guide Using LEGOs, Hot Wheels, and Kid Logic

Learn how to explain artificial intelligence to young children using toys and concepts they already understand. Get practical activities using LEGOs and Hot Wheels to teach AI concepts, age-appropriate boundaries for 5 and 7-year-olds, and simple rules that help children see AI as a helpful tool while maintaining their unique human gifts and creativity.

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The Notification Generation: How Constant Interruptions Are Rewiring Our Children's Brains

Yesterday, my 8-year-old corrected me about a historical fact he'd 'googled' while I was explaining something to him. When I gently suggested his source might be incomplete, he confidently replied, 'But Google knows everything, Dad.' In that moment, I realized we've reached a tipping point: our children are learning to trust algorithms more than the people who love them most. We're facing a crisis of trust, authority, and wisdom transfer that strikes at the heart of family formation.

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Stay Creative

Creativity isn’t just for artists—it’s the engine that powers progress in every field. Stay Creative is your guide to keeping that engine running in a fast, noisy world. From shaking off perfectionism to using tech as a creative partner, it’s a call to keep producing, experimenting, and thinking differently—because bold ideas don’t happen by accident.

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Young Boys Love Throwing Rocks

There's something primal, something deeply satisfying, about the weight of a good rock in a young boy's hand. The way his eyes light up when he spots the perfect stone. The careful consideration of trajectory and target.

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The AI Relationship Trap: Why AI Companions Are Destroying Our Children's Capacity for Love

Explore what children actually lose when they choose artificial relationships: atrophied empathy, diminished patience, and the inability to handle real human complexity. From a biblical perspective, discover why AI relationships represent a fundamental rebellion against God's design for authentic community and what this means for your child's spiritual development.

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