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    "name": "First Followers",
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    "description": "A planned iPhone and iPad app with reviewed Bible lessons for ages 7–18, parent-visible learning evidence, and optional parent-controlled earned screen time.",
    "language": "en",
    "last_updated": "2026-08-12",
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  "editorial_boundaries": [
    "Product features are in development unless explicitly described as currently available.",
    "Earned screen time is optional.",
    "Observable completion and learning evidence must not be described as evidence of belief, sincerity, virtue, obedience, spiritual maturity, or standing with God.",
    "Research claims should be attributed to the original sources linked by each article.",
    "Parent guides are general information and are not medical, mental-health, legal, or pastoral advice."
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    {
      "slug": "how-much-screen-time-kids-teens",
      "url": "https://firstfollowers.app/articles/how-much-screen-time-kids-teens/",
      "title": "How much screen time should kids and teens have?",
      "question": "How much recreational screen time is healthy for a child or teenager?",
      "summary": "There is no universal daily number for ages 7–18. Protect sleep, school, movement, relationships, worship, and offline life first; then set an entertainment-media limit based on the child, content, context, design, and what use displaces.",
      "topics": ["screen time limits", "kids", "teenagers", "family media plan", "Christian parenting"],
      "published": "2026-08-12",
      "research_backed": true,
      "sources": [
        "https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/157/2/e2025075320/206129/Digital-Ecosystems-Children-and-Adolescents-Policy",
        "https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/6/e2024067417/199968/The-Family-Media-Plan",
        "https://www.cdc.gov/physical-activity-education/staying-healthy/sleep.html",
        "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2821176"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "homework-before-screen-time-without-power-struggles",
      "url": "https://firstfollowers.app/articles/homework-before-screen-time-without-power-struggles/",
      "title": "How to make homework come before screen time—without a nightly power struggle",
      "question": "How can parents make sure homework is finished before gaming, social media, or videos?",
      "summary": "Define a visible finish line, create phone-free focus blocks, distinguish school tools from entertainment, and verify honest completion at an age-appropriate level.",
      "topics": ["homework", "screen time", "phone distraction", "parental controls", "family routines"],
      "published": "2026-08-12",
      "research_backed": true,
      "sources": [
        "https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2050157916664558",
        "https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-016-1036-3",
        "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2751330",
        "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/1852609",
        "https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/6/e2024067417/199968/The-Family-Media-Plan"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "screen-time-bedtime-sleep-plan",
      "url": "https://firstfollowers.app/articles/screen-time-bedtime-sleep-plan/",
      "title": "A screen-time bedtime plan that protects children’s sleep",
      "question": "When should children and teenagers stop using screens before bed?",
      "summary": "Work backward from the needed sleep window, stop stimulating media before wind-down, turn off notifications, and charge portable devices outside bedrooms where possible.",
      "topics": ["screen time", "sleep", "bedtime", "phones in bedrooms", "teenagers"],
      "published": "2026-08-12",
      "research_backed": true,
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        "https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2571467",
        "https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/157/2/e2025075320/206129/Digital-Ecosystems-Children-and-Adolescents-Policy",
        "https://www.cdc.gov/physical-activity-education/staying-healthy/sleep.html"
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    },
    {
      "slug": "should-kids-earn-screen-time-for-bible-study",
      "url": "https://firstfollowers.app/articles/should-kids-earn-screen-time-for-bible-study/",
      "title": "Should children earn screen time for doing a Bible lesson?",
      "question": "Is it appropriate to let a child earn screen time by completing Bible study?",
      "summary": "Reward transparent lesson participation only—not belief, sincerity, a preferred spiritual answer, character, or spiritual maturity. Keep faith practices outside the reward system too.",
      "topics": ["Bible study", "screen time rewards", "Christian parents", "children's faith", "motivation"],
      "published": "2026-08-12",
      "research_backed": true,
      "sources": [
        "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10589297/",
        "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32406734/",
        "https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/6/e2024067417/199968/The-Family-Media-Plan"
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      "slug": "help-children-understand-remember-bible-lessons",
      "url": "https://firstfollowers.app/articles/help-children-understand-remember-bible-lessons/",
      "title": "How to help children understand and remember a Bible lesson",
      "question": "What helps a child actually understand and remember a Bible lesson?",
      "summary": "Use one passage goal, low-pressure retrieval questions, kind feedback, spaced review, and a parent conversation while keeping claims about faith outside the assessment.",
      "topics": ["Bible study for kids", "Bible lessons", "retrieval practice", "Christian parenting", "learning"],
      "published": "2026-08-12",
      "research_backed": true,
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        "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3827082/",
        "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32406734/"
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      "slug": "earn-screen-time-without-daily-argument",
      "url": "https://firstfollowers.app/articles/earn-screen-time-without-daily-argument/",
      "title": "How to let kids earn screen time without creating another daily argument",
      "summary": "Use one small responsibility, one predictable outcome, a visible reset point, and a parent override.",
      "published": "2026-08-05",
      "research_backed": false
    },
    {
      "slug": "know-what-your-child-learned-bible-app",
      "url": "https://firstfollowers.app/articles/know-what-your-child-learned-bible-app/",
      "title": "How do you know what your child actually learned from a Bible app?",
      "summary": "Look for the exact lesson, source-based questions, disclosed child responses, and learning claims that do not pretend to measure faith.",
      "published": "2026-08-05",
      "research_backed": false
    },
    {
      "slug": "five-minute-family-faith-habit",
      "url": "https://firstfollowers.app/articles/five-minute-family-faith-habit/",
      "title": "How to build a five-minute family faith habit that fits real life",
      "summary": "Attach a small faith practice to an existing cue and keep conversation invitational rather than performative.",
      "published": "2026-08-05",
      "research_backed": false
    }
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