BrennaKessler wrote:I don't know if I am in the right category but I really need help. I am worried about my 14 year daughter. She has become a computer widow. She prefers to spend most of her time on computer. I want to change her mind now. She has no interest in any religion. I am surprised how she got all that stupid stuff in her mind (most probably this is the internet). I could not convince her to join the Sunday service even after so many discussions. I am a working mom and I am really worried about my only child who makes my family.
This Forum is intended to discuss technical matters, so I will propose a technical solution in a moment.
As for agency, you really cannot take it away, so my only suggestion there, having been a parent, is that most folks, including children, do what they want to do based on the benefits they think they will receive from doing it. So the parenting challenge we always faced was helping our children to believe that it was more beneficial to do the right thing or the better thing each time they reached a decision point.
So for the technical solution, there are ways to make computer access unavailable at certain times. In our home, those times were when homework should be done, during family home evening, during church time on Sunday (and most of Sunday, generally), and on other important family occasions.
Just because the computer is not available at church time doesn't make a child want to go to church, but he or she may find church more interesting than just sitting around home without computer access during that same time.
And there is always the McConkie solution I once read about. "Yes, son, you have your agency. You may choose to go to church happy, or you may choose to go to church unhappy. Go get ready." I will be the first to admit that this works better with a younger child than with a teenager.
Finally, I would suggest you have a visit with your home teachers, visiting teachers, and/or your bishop or other priesthood leaders. They are the ones who are best able to help with the non-technical solutions that this Forum is not really able to handle.