These links will equip you and your family with resources to help

• Discern digital content
• Edify and enrich our day with Godly content.
• Have easy access to resources

Guidelines

• TV Ratings
• E-Safety Commissioner

Age based media review for parents

• Plugged In
  • Looks at films through a biblical worldview filter, keeping families – especially those with children in the home – ultimately in mind
• Common Sense Media 
• Children and Media Australia
• Kids In Mind
  • The purpose of kids-in-mind.com is to provide parents and other adults with objective and complete information about a film’s content so that they can decide, based on their own value system, whether they should watch a movie with or without their kids, or at all.
• ClearPlay – Filtering TV and Movies

Christian Content

• Melbourne Church – Saint Videos
• SuperBook
• Coptic Kids World (available in arabic too)
• Christian Family TV
• CoptTunes
• KetharaToon (available in arabic too)
• Going to mass
• Explaining the liturgy
• Understanding Confession
• The sacraments
  • Baptism
  • Confirmation (Myron)
  • Repentance + Confession
  • Eucharist (Holy Communion) 
  • Unction of the sick
  • Matrimony
  • Priesthood
• The sign of the cross
• Holy Tales
• Who is Jesus? | Bible Stories for Kids
• Bible in a Nutshell
• Yippee TV
• Orthodox Basics by Ancient Faith Kids
• Rocko’s Music Factory – Learning about Orthodoxy
• Go Minno
• Kids Corner

Family Prayer

• Effective Prayer for Family
• Parental Burnout
• The Messeh Family Night-Time Routine
• STSA Ministries – Personal Retreat Guide

Resources for Parents

• Tweens and Children Resources
• Teen and Children Resources
• Focus on the Family: Parenting
• Focus on the Family – The Talk
• Raising Adolescents Study Guide
• Average Boy – Podcast – in the car
• Adventures in Odyssey (audio)
• Guiding Teens through Freedoms and Consequences
• Tween and Teen Development

Delaying Technology

• Wait till 8th Grade
• Let Kids be Kids for Longer
• Lets Talk About Purpose
• The power of a screen free meal
• Healthy Screen Behaviours
• Hang 10 Movement (Christian View)

Recommended Books

• Growth
  • The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
  • Whatever God
  • The 5 Love Languages
  • The 5 Love Languages for Men
• Parenting
  • Parenting Towards the Kingdom
  • Your Teenager is Not Crazy
  • Bringing Up Girls
  • The 5 Love Languages of Children
  • The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers
  • Birds and Bees Book Series
  • Anxious for Nothing
  • Brio Magazine
  • The Anxious Generation
• For Kids
  • Case for Christ for kids
  • You can count on God – 100 devotionals for kids
  • Christian Orthodox Kids Books – St Shenouda Press
  • The Illustrated Children’s Bible
  • The Beginner’s Bible
  • Jesus Calling: 365 Devotionas for Girls
  • The Purpose Driven Life for Kids
  • Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions for Boys
  • Wise Guys – A boys guide to school
  • Girl Wise – A girls guide to life
  • NKJV Study Bible for Kids
  • Average Boy
  • Jnr Clubhouse Magazine