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Preparing Yourself to Talk to Your Child about P*rn
By Tawny Redford What can you do to prepare yourself to talk to your child about porn? First parents must realize that porn is a threat not in the future, but today! Come to terms with how porn is breaking down our society’s moral compass and that no one is exempt...
Power of Purity Podcast Part 1
Talking to kids about the dangers of pornography has never been so important. Learn Why during this podcast with EEK found, Dina Alexander
Helping Our Children to Curb Addictive Tendencies
By Caron C. Andrews Seeing addictive tendencies in our children can be scary and overwhelming. But showing early tendencies doesn’t have to lead our children into full-blown addictions as they get older. If you’ve spotted concerning tendencies in your children, NOW is...
3 Practical Suggestions to End Victim Blaming
By Scott Hounsell Yesterday the Washington Post reported that “Sorority sisters at the University of Virginia [are being] ordered by their national chapters to avoid fraternity events this weekend” (Svrluga, 2015) as a result of the risk of sexual assault. I found...
Protecting Children from P*rnography Addiction: A Therapist’s Advice
By Caron C. Andrews Pornography addiction among teenagers is a problem more and more therapists are seeing in their practices. With the ease of finding and viewing it online, it’s never been easier for people to become steeped in porn. Trent John, LPCC (Licensed...
Things I Can do to Prepare My Child Before P*rn Exposure
By Tawny Redford If you are like most responsible parents, you are wondering how to talk to your child about porn. Although we agree how unpleasant the topic of porn is, especially when imagining our children seeing it, it would be an invaluable investment to ‘school’...
Why The Best Way to Protect Our Children is to Prepare Them
By Amanda Grossman-Scott I watch as my daughter makes an angel in the snow. Her eyes gaze up at the sky. She is full of concentration and pure bliss. She calls to me to show me the ‘best angel she’s ever made!’ “It looks like there was an angel sleeping in our...
How Teaching Healthy Sexuality Can Help Your Child Against the Predator, the Pressuring Partner, and the Prude
By Lea Grover Ms. Grover is a successful blogger and author whose blog has been featured in Huffington Post. www.chicagonow.com/becoming-supermommy. The Predator: At the earliest possible age, we need to talk to our children about sex. During diaper changes, singing,...
Intimacy Education Vs Sex Education
By Julia Bernards I was disgusted. Sitting in that plastic chair at a group desk with several boys, I’d just been subjected to a lesson on the mechanics of sex in our Home Ec class. I was assiduously avoiding eye contact with the snickering boys, and wondering if the...
What You Need to Know About Your Kids’ Anonymous Apps
By Amanda Grossman-Scott Whisper. Secret. Shush. What do these words have in common? They all imply secrecy and privacy. They are also all names of apps currently available for anonymous information sharing as well. AfterSchool is an app that has been banned from the...
Teaching Your Children Self-Respect and Respect for Others
By Mary Ann Benson, M.S.W., L.S.W. Respect is defined as a feeling or understanding that someone or something is important, serious, etc., and should be treated in an appropriate way. (Merriam Webster, 2014) There are two critical components of respect that children...
Spying On Your Child: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Our children are growing up in a virtual world that simply didn’t exist when most of us were kids. Do you know how to work all the devices and gaming systems in your home? We all need to.
Creating Family Memories Outside of Screen Time
By Tawny Redford The typical American family eating dinner in front of the television has become an embarrassingly familiar version of ‘family time’ in our culture. Instead of our family dialogue centered on each other, our attention has pivoted towards our own media...
How Gratitude Empowers Kids
By Tawny Redford One morning while driving the kids to school, (in my typical ‘out of body experience’ mode that I function in every day before 8:00am), I noticed I wasn’t the only one irritable and impatient; my kids were riding in my ‘negativity side car.’ I...
