10-Week Study & Discussion Guide

The Tech-Wise Family

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Week 1 — FreeRead the Introduction of The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch.

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1.Crouch opens by describing a moment of honest family self-assessment — looking around and noticing how many devices are present and how much time is consumed by them. Before reading further, what did you notice when you took stock of your own household this past week?

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At a glance: this is a 10-week study and discussion guide for The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch, with 72 questions organized by reading assignment. Week 1 is free to read, with no card required.

Andy Crouch's The Tech-Wise Family is not primarily a book about screen-time rules. It is a book about what kind of people we want to become—and whether the devices filling our homes are helping or hindering that becoming. Crouch argues that technology's deepest danger is not that it makes children violent or distracted (though it may do both), but that it offers effortless entertainment and instant gratification in place of the harder, richer goods of character, creativity, wisdom, and courage. Drawing on his own family's experiments and on original research conducted with Barna Group, Crouch invites families to make a series of countercultural choices—not to flee technology, but to put it in its proper place so that real human life can flourish at the center of the home.

This guide is designed for a small group or an individual reader who wants to work through the book one chapter at a time over ten weeks. The rhythm is simple: read the assigned chapter before your group meets (or before you sit down to journal), let the orienting sentence frame your thinking, work through the discussion questions honestly, and close with the prayer. Some questions are about comprehension—what did Crouch actually say? Others press on personal application—where do you see this in your own home? And others ask you to think theologically—how does this connect to the kind of life God made us for? All of them are worth sitting with slowly. Resist the urge to rush.

By the end of this guide you will have a clearer picture of your family's current relationship with technology, a set of practical commitments you can actually keep, and—more importantly—a deeper sense of why those commitments matter. The goal is not a better-managed device policy. The goal is a home where wisdom and courage are genuinely being cultivated, where human beings are more fully alive, and where God is genuinely known.

Week 1: Introduction — The Invisible Addiction

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Before we can choose wisely about technology, we have to see clearly what it is already doing to us — and Crouch's opening pages are designed to make the invisible visible.

2.Crouch distinguishes between making good choices *about* technology and making good choices *with* technology. What is the difference, and why does he think the first is so rarely discussed?

3.The book's organizing concern is not simply safety or screen time, but the formation of character, wisdom, and courage. Why do you think Crouch frames the technology conversation in those terms rather than in terms of harm prevention?

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Week 2: Chapter 1 — Crouch's Ten Commitments

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1.Crouch presents ten commitments that shaped his family's approach to technology. Which one surprised you most — either because it seemed too demanding or because it seemed too simple?

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Week 3: Chapter 2 — Shaping Space

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Read Chapter 2 of The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch.

1.Crouch argues that the layout and "ecology" of our homes shapes our behavior more powerfully than we realize. Walk through your own home mentally: where are devices located, and what does their placement communicate about priorities?

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Week 4: Chapter 3 — Shaping Time

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Read Chapter 3 of The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch.

1.Crouch introduces the idea of "rhythms" — daily, weekly, and annual patterns that create the texture of a family's life. What rhythms currently shape your household, and how many of them were intentionally chosen versus simply absorbed from the culture around you?

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Week 5: Chapter 4 — The Nudge Toward Boredom

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Read Chapter 4 of The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch.

1.Crouch argues that the relentless availability of entertainment has made an entire generation afraid of boredom. Do you agree? When did you last feel genuinely bored, and what did you do with that feeling?

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Week 6: Chapter 5 — Who's the Teacher?

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Read Chapter 5 of The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch.

1.Crouch argues that devices are not neutral conduits of information — they are active shapers of desire, attention, and identity. In what specific ways have you noticed a device "teaching" you or your children something you did not choose to learn?

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Week 7: Chapter 6 — Waking Up and Putting Our Phones Down

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Read Chapter 6 of The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch.

1.Crouch addresses the habit many of us have of checking our phones within minutes — sometimes seconds — of waking up. What does this habit do to the first moments of consciousness in the day? What might those moments be for instead?

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Week 8: Chapter 7 — The Importance of Car Time

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Read Chapter 7 of The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch.

1.Crouch makes the observation that the car has historically been one of the best places for real parent-child conversation — something about side-by-side seating and the slight discomfort of a confined space loosens people up. Have you found this to be true in your own experience?

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Week 9: Chapter 8 — Creativity and Calling

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Read Chapter 8 of The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch.

1.Crouch grounds his entire argument in a theology of image-bearing — humans are made in the image of a Creator God, which means we are fundamentally creative and purposeful beings. How does this theological foundation change the nature of the critique he is making? Is it a different kind of critique than you typically hear about technology?

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Week 10: Review & Reflection

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Review your notes and journal entries from the full book, The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch.

1.Looking back at the whole book: which chapter or idea hit you hardest, and why? What was it about that chapter that got past your defenses in a way the others may not have?

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