In her book “The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens From Smartphones”, Claire Morell advocates for parents to take the reins and make decisions that eliminate digital technologies from the lives of your children. She suggests that the first step is instituting a thirty-day family digital detox or fast with the following ground rules. First, no video games. Shut them off. Second, no ipads or other tablets. Put them away. Third, no smartphones. Fourth, no social media. Fifth, no television except for watching family movies. And finally screens for use only with school homework. This digital detox means total abstinence from all addictive screen technologies. While this sounds radical, Morell says that this is what’s needed. Just like detoxing from addiction to drugs or alcohol, it has to be complete. She suggests giving it a shot for a seven day trial just to see the results. Our smartphones are the idols of our age. Let’s lead our kids out of and not into idolatry.