Without ruining your relationship with your children.
Without ruining your relationship with your children.
Making Fun of Faith is a bold approach to the age-old problem of transmitting wisdom across generational boundaries. We need to get this right more urgently then ever in a world of accessible content and covert influences we don't feel in control of.
My massive transformational purpose is 'Making Fun of Faith'. This is not so much poking fun at values based in a Christian world view. Rather, I support you in making faith fun - using all the exciting technological opportunities to make it so. Without passively throwing away your parental responsibility for digital boundaries and safety.
Making Fun of Faith is a bold approach to an age-old problem of transmitting wisdom across generational boundaries.
Through the game 'Trunk'd', my massive transformational purpose 'Making Fun of Faith' is not poking fun at values based in Christian world view.
Do you sometimes feel like a digital trespasser?
One day at the turn of the millennium, my young children were playing the PC game 'SIMS' which was all the rage (I can still hear the music now). I'd enjoyed seeing them create their simulated family house design, choosing to furnish and lay out the rooms and contents. Or to manage their character's energy, sleep levels and earning power. I realized they kept sending the Sim 'parents' upstairs to engage in a bit of hanky-panky under the bedclothes. Sparks flew in more ways than one.
That was the day I realized my parental boundaries has been prematurely breached under my very nose.
The example seems tame now by comparison and we are twenty-plus years on from those bedtime antics.
But I had seen a need for a wholesome character-formation role-playing game. Scripting its game-lore I went on to write an illustrated children's book upon which this exciting product will be fashioned. 'Trunk'd' is about embracing the whimsical, the imaginative, and mysterious aspects of faith by working out how to live well. It will be tailor-made for the Alpha generation, those who urgently need tools for intuitive spiritual formation and character development. Exciting, interactive options will differ according to player decisions. I see the game 'Trunk’d' as a much needed evolution of conventional notions of discipleship and a fresh way of engaging young believers, the spiritually curious or naive in a mesmerizing adventure story.
But first!
Parents, guardians, grandparents - we can rally all who want to stare down this monster of digital dangers. Let's come together to equip and prepare our precious children to thrive in an age of relativity and confusion. Caught between attention-seeking social media, intangible crypto-currencies, identity crises and fluid sexuality debates, artificial Intelligence, fake news, augmented and virtual reality - parenting our children and protecting their childhood can feel like a 24/7 battle against the Universe.
Our children have never been more vulnerable or anxious.
Parents, we need ready access to the best thinking and each other's breakthrough stories, insights and strategies so we can make the most of the brief time we have to prepare our kids' resilience. We can no longer pop round to the physical doorstep of the local bully to tackle his or her parent head-on. The threats are far more subtle and diverse and we need to be sharper than ever at spotting dangers. Yes we still can and must instill values, guide behavior, and captivate the hearts of millions for fruitful and characterful lives.
Before a famine for true integrity and faith robs the next generation of the power to make good choices.
Weekly Live coaching calls with an experienced coach, motivational interviewer, and adult educationalist, (certified John Maxwell and Igniting Souls coach).
Guidance from tech experts on how to program your computer for safety.
What happens to your children's emotions and chemicals internally when they're gaming.
How to handle your children's attitudes after gaming sessions.
How to detox your kids from unwanted consequences of gaming sessions.
How to choose, track and manage the games your kids are playing.
How to set healthy boundaries around gaming and screen time
Strategies on how to prevent the addiction affecting some online gamers.
Peer support on dealing with the mental health challenges your kids will face online.
Access to our peer learning community, 'Digital Trespassers'.
A safe space to explore dangerous or politically sensitive topics like gender identity. How social media is 'informing' our children's ability to embrace biblical views and confidence in upholding them.
How to program computer access and permissions.
How to interact as parents, creating a safe place for online gaming, learning with and from them through playful fun
Become confident in celebrating positive opportunities of all things digital for the next generation.
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This was my first publication, a quirky and playful self-help guide to overcoming life's frustration, disappointment and resistance. You will get to know my analytical thinking and British humor in these pages.
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‘Disentangling Genius’ when you sign up today!
This was my first publication, a quirky and playful self-help guide to overcoming life's frustration, disappointment and resistance. You will get to know my analytical thinking and British humor in these pages.
(Physical Copy for UK only. EBook for outside the UK.)
I equip parents and guardians to prepare their children to thrive and flourish in the virtual metaverse they pioneer. Guidance for and through the metaverse is critical, yet without throwing away responsibility for their child's spiritual and character formation.
They in turn grow in stature and favour with God and humanity as the next influential generation.
I equip parents and guardians to prepare their children to thrive and flourish in the virtual metaverse they pioneer. Guidance for and through the metaverse is critical, yet without throwing away responsibility for their child's spiritual and character formation.
They in turn grow in stature and favour with God and humanity as the next influential generation.
As parents and guardians, we need a safe space to test our concerns and anxieties about influences upon our children. We need a community where we can bounce ideas and share misgivings with international peers facing these same pressures.
As a parent of two adult children herself, Gill is a bold, observational truth teller. I recommend her value as a natural coach who asks great questions revealing and eliciting principles and motives for change.
—Dr. Kary Oberbrunner, CEO of Igniting Souls. WSJ and USA Today bestselling author of 13 books
I am a lifelong Bible student, Montessori trained tutor, mother of three home-schooled millenials and grandmother of three girls under 8 yrs. I am deeply conscious of the pressures facing parents and children today. Children are faced with multiple, confusing or subversive influences in their lives. As long as I have known Gill (for over 35 years) she has concerned herself with the well-being of others’ body, soul and spirit. We want this for our impressionable loved ones and also need peer support as parents who fear our influence is being eroded all too soon. ''Digital Trespassers' offers a safe community space for parents and guardians to navigate the metaverse confidently and establish safe boundaries around our children's virtual exposure.
In today's world, children are facing unique challenges. Her Trunk’d Discord server (for digital native kids) and the Digital Trespassers’ community (Facebook parents) provide supportive environments to discuss digital discipleship.
I have a 4yr old and 8 yr old whose eyes and ears are spiritual gateways. Everything they are watching is 'entering in' hence the words ENTER-TAINMENT. Both have limits upon screen time, and we teach them self-control to watch one episode and switch off.
I want them to discern how they feel when they watch or hear something. I look forward to learning how others are navigating this mine-field. Thanks, Gill Bentham, for setting these groups up.
Ngwari, 44