We’ve created a new Quick Reference Guide for social media apps. It provides a quick description and assessment of risk for children for roughly 40 popular social media apps used by children. Obviously it does not include every app!
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Controlling what apps your child uses is an important part of modern parenting. For those families where both parents and kids are using Apple mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, & iPod) Apple has provided a feature called “Ask to Buy”!
Let us take a look at this very useful feature!
Remember:
Even with the best filters, etc., it is possible that, somehow or somewhere, your child will accidentally hit a porn site.
Sad, but true.
So, WHAT DO YOU DO???
Screaming, panicking, and ranting are not the paths to take. You don’t want to say/scream things like:
Fortunately there is a good, systematic approach you can take that fosters an understanding of God’s boundaries and the development of a healthy attitude about God’s design for sex.
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I got a call from a parent who had discovered that one of their son’s female friends had sent a picture of herself partially clothed. They were extremely upset (for good reason) but they were also very worried about the fact that the phone could potentially hold “child pornography”. They were conscientious parents who stumbled across the image while checking up on family cell usage via their provider’s web account.
This was just a few weeks after a local middle school had experienced a “sexting scandal”.
What is going on, and why is “SEXTING” such a big deal?
Well, dating has CHANGED since my day. ‘Way back then, girls didn’t even want to be seen kissing in public, except maybe a quick kiss (1970’s, Deep South… California was different, I hear!).
But those are days long gone by….
“We don’t need to install filters, we trust our kids.”
“Our kids wouldn’t be interested in that, and know that it is wrong, so we trust them with their computers in their rooms.”
Those are two common sentiments that I encounter as I do seminars on Internet safety around the country. Sometimes it is voiced by a seminar attendee. Sometimes by the person on the plane next to me.
I understand their feelings, but I think that they are “trusting” their kids…
in the wrong way!!!
Sex.
It is EVERYWHERE in our society.
No wonder youth and adults, alike, are confused about what is OK, what is sinful. It is no wonder that many are wounded and crying on the Sexual Battlefield.
It doesn’t help that many elements in our Society continue to attack marriage as unreasonable and unnatural. Today, sex outside of marriage is common in all types of media, and in real life.
How should we react to this as the people of God?
By teaching a view of marriage that limits sex to marriage, but in a positive way.
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