Resources

PREVENTION:

"Diapers to Dating, Raising Sexually Healthy Children" Dr. Debra Haffner

"The Right Touch, A Read-Aloud Story to Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse" Sandy Kleven (put this in the school library)

"I Said NO!" A kid-to-kid guide to keeping private parts private. Zack & Kimberly King

Good Pictures, Bad Pictures. Excellent books to read with children in preparation for WHEN they will see 'bad pictures'. 

PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS: 

Luma and Bloom (a podcast by Joy Smith Foundation)

Exodus Cry podcast  

The US Surgeon General's Dire Social Media Warning 

Consider Before Consuming - Educational interviews on the harms of porn. 

The Place We Find Ourselves- Powerful information on healing and trauma. 

SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW: 

@ijmcanada

@hervictory

@joy.smith.foundation 

@defenddignity 

 

GOVERNMENT ADVOCACY: 

In Canada:

https://defenddignity.ca/get-involved/#advocacy Stand with survivors & advocates by supporting policies that reduce sexual exploitation. Ask your MP to support Bill S210. Bill S-210 requires sites to verify that users are adults before accessing pornographic content. Right now any child/toddler can access hard core, body punishing porn within 2 clicks on ANY CONNECTED device! We owe it to our kids to change this immediate. You can also easily email your MP here within 2 clicks! 

In the USA: 

https://exoduscry.com/getinvolved/ 

The National Centre on Sexual Exploitation 

PARENTING RESOURCES:

Parents Program by Culture Reframed, take this self-paced free online course to learn how to fight for your kids in this toxic pornified culture. They have one for tweens & teens.

Join the resistance movement: WAIT UNTIL 8TH. No smartphones until at least grade 8 but most experts say 16! Start with a flip phone

Book The Glass Between Us. Review on Amazon "Families will remember the day they got this book as a turning point and the start of a new sense of safety through responsible use of technology."

Why Gender Matters What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences

https://www.pluggedin.com/ faith based reviews of modern media, music, video games, books, etc. 

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, Jonathan Haidt. 

Dr. Haidt's Under 5 Screen Recommendations:

  1. Under 18 months, limit screen use to video chatting with an adult (i.e., with a parent/grandparent who is out of town)
  2. 18 - 24 mo, limit screen time to watching educational programming with a caregiver 
  3. 2 - 5 yrs, limit noneducational screen time to 1 hr/weekday and 3 hrs/weekend day 
  4. Screens off at meals and outings
  5. Use parent controls
  6. Avoid using screens as pacifiers, babysitters or to stop tantrums. 
  7. Turn off screens 1 hour before bedtime

 DOCUMENTARIES: 

MAGIC LANTERN PICTURES: Raised on Porn and what the porn culture is creating in their next documentary Liberated, The New Sexual Revolution. These are upsetting to watch but helpful to know this is what we are fighting against. Not for kids! 

BRAIN, HEART, WORLD by Fight the New Drug. Very well done, 3 part documentaries following the journey of people struggling with porn. 

Colin Kartchner, TED Talk

HELP QUITTING PORN / HELPING KIDS WHO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED:

The Sex Talk You Never Got Sam Jolman (good healing book for parents, especially Dads) 

UNWANTED, How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing, Jay Stringer

       "Unwanted sexual behaviors are a roadmap to healing, not a life sentence to sexual shame or addiction. Unwanted sexual behaviors like the use of porn, extra-marital affairs and hook-ups are not random. Porn searches and sexual fantasies can be both shaped and predicted based on your life story."  Dr. Stringer

https://www.covenanteyes.com/ Well-established accountability program, good help for parents and those trying to quit. 

LEARN ABOUT PORN & SEXUAL VIOLENCE 

Book How Pornography Harms by Dr. John D. Foubert

Dr. John Foubert, Protecting Children from Internet Pornography, great book; I highly recommend it. Written by a Christian author, researcher and advocate. 

For all the hockey parents! Skating on Thin Ice - Professional Hockey, Rape Culture & Violence Against Women by Dr. Walter Dekeseredy, Stu Cowan & Martin D. Schwartz 

Pornland. Dr Gail Dines. This is a HARD read! But if you want to know the truth about the porn industry, Dr. Dines is the leading authority and researcher on this topic. 

SCHOOL CURRICULUM & TEACHING RESOURCES:

Ally Global Foundation and Exploitation Education Institute. https://www.thepreventionproject.ca/library

https://covenanthousetoronto.ca/traffick-stop/ 

Free porn critical sex education curriculum.  

Value Driven Curriculum for Healthy & Safe Screen Use. Wired Human.