The 18th-century Scottish politician Andrew Fletcher once boldly claimed, “If one were permitted to make all the ballads, one need not care who should make the laws of a nation.” If Fletcher were around today, though, he might be just as concerned about television and movies and video games—or online videos.

The average child aged 8 to 12 spends four hours and 44 minutes with entertainment media on digital devices each day. For teens, it’s seven hours and 22 minutes. And that does not include the time using devices for homework, reading books, or listening to music. To paraphrase Fletcher, if one were permitted to make all the pop culture, one need not care who should make the theology of a nation. For better or for worse, your child’s worldview is shaped by the pop culture they consume.

“You won’t be able to block out every Disney movie and every top 40 song,” Collin Hansen notes in this week’s featured article. “Even if you could, you’d probably have an easier time keeping outside air out of your house than thinking your children won’t be catechized by the world.” But there is still much parents can do, and Hansen provide a range of suggestions and tools to help you in the task. “Someone will catechize your children,” Hansen says. “So don’t outsource it in 2021.”