From the article “Helping Children Make Good Media Choices,” from the digital-only content in the June 2018 issue of the Ensign magazine:
Media is so present in our lives that it’s nearly impossible to prevent children from confronting things we wish we could protect them from. There simply aren’t enough filters in the world to screen out everything that offends the Spirit. And when children leave home, they can’t always take filters along. So what can we do?
What we can do, and should do, is help our children learn to recognize, respond to, and rely on an internal filter that will never fail: the Holy Spirit. This preparation happens best through multiple small conversations, starting at an early age and continuing throughout childhood.
The article gives parents great ideas on how to teach children to recognize the Spirit, respond to the Spirit, and rely on the Spirit.
Read the article “Helping Children Make Good Media Choices.”
The June 2018 issue of the Friend magazine also has resources to go along with this topic.
Great article, but I fear that this will be misunderstood by many Primary Presidencies and Teachers and will begin teaching that children can have the Holy Ghost as their guide, when in fact, at their young age, it is the Light of Christ that “is given to every man that he may know good from evil…” (Moroni 7:16)
More times than not, we have a tendency in the Church to lump all spiritual influences into one and call it the Holy Ghost! For those not yet blessed with this wonderful gift, including unbaptized children, and adults, we must not forget the spiritual influences of the Light of Christ that all men, women, and children have access to (DS, Vol 1, p 53, 247, 178).