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10 Truths Exceptional Parents Live By
Parents – Raising Kids is Hard. But all Good Things are Difficult. “Parenting is hard, but there are few things in life that rise to this level of importance. God has chosen parents to be primary...
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Advice for Parents Feeling Betrayed and Deceived by Their Teen Addict
I am a mom of four beautiful children. They each have their positive and negative traits. Each has made me laugh and feel pride at their accomplishments, and each has disappointed me and fallen short...
View ArticleHelp Your Kids Avoid Porn: Don’t Treat Them the Same
You don’t necessarily want to treat all children the same when it comes to helping them avoid pornography. This may sound counterintuitive, but it is true. Any parent with multiple children knows the...
View ArticleParents Make Little Headway in Porn Prevention Without Honesty
In my experience parents often become ineffective helping their children avoid pornography when they discover how honest they must be for that process to actually work. I’m not talking about the...
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6 Easy Ways Your Child Can Bypass Your Internet Filter
Your internet filter won’t protect your kids from porn. If you’ve set up a filter, you obviously care about keeping the bad stuff from getting to your kids, or keeping your kids from getting to the bad...
View ArticleAccountability and Our Kids: Getting It Right
Parents are more aware than ever about the need for accountability with our kids. Thanks to the efforts of Covenant Eyes and others, we have more powerful tools to help us in those efforts. However, in...
View ArticleHow to Explain Accountability to Your Child
We’ve decided we want to help our child with accountability, but we don’t know how to explain what we will be doing with them and why. We don’t want our child to believe that we think they are broken....
View Article3 Challenges to Accountability with Your Kids (and How to Overcome Them)
Rather than let challenges to accountability frighten us away, we can anticipate potential problems and address them early on. By planning ahead, we can gain confidence to start needed conversations...
View Article10 Ways Your Kids Could See Porn Without You Knowing
“Are you excited for school to start?!” As a kid, I would dread that question. I never wanted summer to end! Of course, now that I’m a parent, I find myself asking that question. For a kid,...
View ArticlePorn Must Be an Ongoing Conversation with Your Kids
“I first saw pornography at age 12 when I got a smart phone. I knew it was against God but I still viewed it when I was alone and didn’t let my parents know. My parents never addressed pornography...
View ArticlePorn-Free Home: A Parent’s Survival Guide
“I first saw pornography when I was 6 when I found a pornographic video in my older brother’s room. I kept watching pornography here and there from that point on. My parents didn’t sit me down to talk...
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4 Things a Grandma and a Video Game Taught Me About Porn
So there I was, standing next to a grandma I barely knew with hardcore porn playing on the big screen. I never imagined my day was going to end up like this! I was a youth pastor at the time, and the...
View Article4 Sneaky Places That Normalize Porn Use for Kids
Younger kids access stuff out there that isn’t exactly 100% porn or isn’t so intense that it seems to be really bad. That leads them into thinking porn isn’t so bad and eventually looking at a lot of...
View Article‘Tis the Season for Peer-to-Peer Porn Exposure
Editor’s Note: names have been changed to protect minors Barely audible over the hum of tires on the highway, 7-year-old David heard his cousin whisper, “I dare you to look up boobs.” To keep the boys...
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Your Child and Porn: The Importance of Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence: it’s a buzz phrase right now. You may have heard it a number of places: blogs, talk shows, the news, or documentaries. But this evasive phrase is more than just a fad; it is an...
View ArticlePorn Is Causing Children to Sexually Assault Other Children
Nurse Heidi Olson’s voice carries a caring and kind tenor, but her horror stories are heartbreaking and set in homes that look a lot like yours and mine. Children influenced by pornography are sexually...
View ArticleConnection: A Vital Part of Raising Happy, Healthy Kids
Parenting has got to be one of the hardest jobs there is. Completely rewarding, yes. But also filled daily with new challenges, growth spurts, and development. I had a sobering reminder of the weight...
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My Porn Addiction Started With a Book and a Babysitting Job (Part 2)
Continued from Part 1 of Lacy’s story… Fully breaking free of the compulsive eating, fasting, intricate fantasy worlds, and pornography took many years. But now, it’s been almost 26 years free from...
View ArticleHigh School Student Opens Up About Porn in His School
Normal. When I sat down to talk with 16-year-old high school junior Sam about his exposure to pornography in public schools, the first word he used to describe it was “normal.” Sam was homeschooled...
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How to Keep Your Kids Safe (And Sane) Amidst the Chaos of COVID-19
As a parent to a very energetic 9-year-old, you can imagine my facial expressions when I found out that schools across the United States were being cancelled for at least three weeks due to the...
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