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Tips for Parents
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Express Your Love. Express your love and your desire for your child to have a happy, successful life, and share your concern that involvement in pornography can jeopardize your child's future happiness and well-being.
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Teach. Teach your child how pornography distorts sexuality, causes users to view others as sexual objects, and is highly addictive.
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Follow Up. Once the problem has been acknowledged, keep the lines of communication open. Addiction thrive in secrecy and is less likely to recur when talked about in a sensitive, caring way.
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Respond Calmly. Avoid responding with shock and anger. Instead, be genuinely concerned and talk with your child in a respectful way.
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Learn. Ask how the problem got started, how long it has been going on, and how extensively the child is involved with pornography.
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Accountability. Utilize internet filtering on computers, and hand held devices. Be aware of all potential sources that could be used to obtain pornography and take measures to prevent pornography from entering your home. Be prepared to take away internet and phone privileges as needed.
Involve Professionals and clergy. Encourage your child to talk and get professional and spiritual help.
Discipline with Sensitivity. Rather than preaching, threatening, or condemning, appeal to your child's better judgment. Discipline and teach with kindness to listen to your counsel.
Communicate. Find out how the child feels about his or her involvement and whether he or she plans to continue that involvement.
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Help. Provide help and encouragement as the child strives to overcome the problem.
Tips for Prevention
Protect. Safeguard your home. As a family, discuss and implement healthy media habits such as limiting television and computer time, installing Internet filters, and placing televisions and computers in high-use areas where the screens are visible to others.
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Books to Read
Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically. While Emily is working hard at school and getting A's, her brother Justin is goofing off. He's more concerned about getting to the next level in his videogame than about finishing his homework.
Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Its sales continue to increase year after year, and the book’s popularity has gone global, with editions now available in over twenty languages.
In The Collapse of Parenting, physician, psychologist, and internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax presents data documenting a dramatic decline in the achievement and psychological health of American children. Sax argues that rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young people—as well as the explosion in prescribing psychiatric medications to kids—can all be traced to parents letting their kids call the shots.
Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
By Leonard Sax
Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn’t think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences in how they were treated by their parents, teachers, and friends.
From the authors of Leadership and Self-Deception comes a new edition of an international bestseller that instills hope and inspires reconciliation. What if conflicts at home, conflicts at work, and conflicts in the world stem from the same root cause? What if we systematically misunderstand that cause? And what if, as a result, we unwittingly perpetuate the very problems we think we are trying to solve?
Between the ages of twelve and twenty-four, the brain changes in important and, at times, challenging ways. In Brainstorm, Dr. Daniel Siegel busts a number of commonly held myths about adolescence—for example, that it is merely a stage of “immaturity” filled with often “crazy” behavior. According to Siegel, during adolescence we learn vital skills, such as how to leave home and enter the larger world, connect deeply with others, and safely experiment and take risks.
Our children are the next great dreamers, educators, explorers, and leaders. It is now, in their childhood, that we give them the tools that shape them, the heart that drives them, and the knowledge that guides them.
Never before has it been so easy to talk with your children or teens about tough topics. Whether they are 6 or 18, you will have worthwhile, relevant discussions that help protect and prepare your kids! With smartphones and tablets everywhere, we are all engaged in one of the most incredible social experiments ever conceived in the history of mankind. Within this alarming experiment, our kids are becoming entrenched in an increasingly pornified culture. Pornography use among kids is now a major public health issue due to its far-reaching effects.
Written by parents and reviewed by professionals, 30 Days of Sex Talks makes it simple for you and your child to talk about sex in the context in which it belongs; as part of a healthy relationship that also includes joy, laughter and the full range of emotion that defines human intimacy.
We’ve broken down “the talk” into 30 uncomplicated “chats” to make it simple for you to engage in these critical conversations with your young child. Starting with My Body Belongs to Me, and moving into other protective information such as I have Instincts that Keep Me Safe, and Boundaries.
We have also included dialogues on important topics such as affection, anatomy, respecting others, predators, romantic love, and online dangers. Using the numerous questions, conversation starters, and in-depth glossary we have provided, you can launch these essential talks with your child and interject your personal thoughts, feelings and cultural beliefs.
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