Parents - Recent Blog Posts
As many of you may know I am a fan of Apple. Not just because of their great products (my iPhone4 popped up with a reminder for me to write this blog today and I am writing it on my 17” MacBook Pro laptop) but because of Steve Jobs (Apple’s CEO) stance against porn. He has made several comments about keeping porn away from kids recently. For...
In an attempt to make parents’ heads explode, Facebook introduced another possibly perplexing wrinkle to their ever-expanding social web. Places is a new app that will allow users to share their real-time location data, commonly referred to as geolocation, with their friends and possibly friends of friends.
Places is a natural extension of...
Over a year ago I wrote an article called “The Sexting Craze” (click here to read the article). If you don’t know “Sexting” is sending nude or semi-nude pictures or video via text messaging or the Internet. Back when I wrote the article studies said 20% of teens admitted to sexting. I read an article today sighting the “National Campaign to...
As the role of technology as teaching aids continues to evolve, do you know how your school uses it in the classroom? What are the policies for Internet use? What about mobile devices? Is your school using a filter, and if so what are the monitoring policies?
With back-to-school time right around the corner, now is the time that parents should...
"There are over 100,000 websites dedicated to child porn. It's a multi-billion dollar industry. Over the past 13 years the number of child pornography offenders has increased by 1,500%." I wrote this in April of 2009. Things have not gotten a whole lot better on the statistic side of things but finally the Department of Justice announced its...
Education of both parents and children is key to any successful online safety strategy, and the founders of KidSafe are taking just that approach. [read more].
The article points out that parents should create an Internet safety contract with their kids, but the article does not go into detail about what the contract should contain. To...
If you didn't know June was Internet Safety Month and Yahoo! released the results of a survey they recently commissioned about Parents and Online Safety. The results were pretty interesting and, according to the survey, parents are doing a good job in some areas and in others they need more help and education.
Let's take a look and some of the...
So your daughter is online looking for information on the Mayflower for her 5th grade class project. She types in a web address, accidentally misspells it, hits enter and WHAM! She’s looking at a totally naked guy and girl doing something you hoped you wouldn’t have to explain to her for a couple more years. Well, the sex talk is going to...
After years of debate, ICANN, the not-for-profit regulatory agency that issues domain suffixes, decided to go ahead with domains ending in .xxx for adult sites.
ICANN says the measure is intended to “provide a place online for adult entertainment providers and their service providers who want to be part of our voluntary self regulatory...
Perez Hilton puts another nude picture of Miley Cyrus on the Internet. Lindsay Lohan defends her porn star role in an upcoming film. Hustler is making a 3D Avatar porn film. These are just a few of today’s headlines.
What the heck is going on? Miley and Lindsay are (where) kids stars. I think Perez is a jerk for posting nude photo’s of Miley...
Once more here is another blog from our friends at Safe Eye's. If you are looking for a great filter for your family this is a great program and very user friendly.
What should you do when you catch a spouse or child looking at porn? Dr. Robi provides some psychological background and a few tips:
There are different types of motivation for...
I came across a interesting graphic chart called “The Numbers Behind Pornography”. It was pretty eye opening. And since a lot of parents are in the dark about what’s happening in the world of porn I thought this might be helpful. I’ve provided a link to the chart (below) but here are some of the numbers:
- “Only 3% of adult web sites require...
You often see the ads on our site for Safe Eyes filter. We only post things that our minstry belives in and we do not just supply ad spots to just anyone. Safe eyes is the only filter that we here at X3 Church reccomends. Here is ther latest blog form their site at www.safeeyes.com
“Why are we all embracing conventional wisdom when the world...
The fight to protect your kids from porn has gained an unusual ally. Apple, the makers of revolutionary products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Steve Jobs (Apple’s CEO) has commented in the past about keeping porn away from kids but in the last two month Jobs has made several statements regarding porn in connection with Apple products:
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My mom is a warrior. Not in the traditional sense. She doesn’t wield a sword or a machine gun but she still dispatches her foes with the same ferocious skills as Aragon or Rambo. My mom is always praying for her children (4 of them) and grandchildren (13 of them). I know her foes hate when she does that. As my mom closes her eyes I imagine this...
This is a really good article that I found on the web about porn and parents. It is written by Marcia Segelstein - OneNewsNow Columnist - 2/24/2009. I hope that this can shed some light on the issue of pornography and what are children are dealing with
Most people probably don't picture kids when they think about who's viewing pornography. But...
I did an X3 Live broadcast with Craig Gross last month and it's available to watch now online. So to mix things up a little bit on the blog I thought it might be interesting to to post a link to this video. It starts off with Craig doing the intro on the topic "Porn and Parents" and then he throws it over to me. So if you're a parent that wants...
ChatRoulette, a new site that randomly pairs users across the globe in audio and video chat, is getting lots of coverage as a danger to kids.
In response, the site’s creator has placed a “report abuse” button on the site, but it appears to be a button to nowhere, as the speed-dating nature of the site means that users are more likely to simply...
I spent the last week and a half on vacation with my family in Naples Florida. The beaches were amazing, everything was green and blooming and life had an easygoing pace. One day we went to Naples Pier. It’s a huge pier that goes way out into the ocean and it was packed with fishermen. We saw people catching all kinds of fish. One guy we walked...
More and more info is coming out about ChatRoulette. Parents here is a blog from our friends at SafeEyes.com. This is the most user friendly and #1 reccomendation by X3 Church as far as filters go.
Goes to show we don’t issue warnings for nothing.
RJMetrics, an analytics firm, has done some digging on the new web phenom ChatRoulette and found...
Warren Buckleitner on the New York Time’s Gadgetwise blog observed that every kid is going to want an iPad and gave 6 reasons why. We bet he could have gone on a lot longer than that.
The iPad’s heavy emphasis on media, web browsing, and gaming will make it an absolute hit with kids of all ages, and parents buying the device can expect it...
ChatRoulette, a new site that randomly pairs users across the globe in audio and video chat, is getting lots of coverage as a danger to kids.
In response, the site’s creator has placed a “report abuse” button on the site, but it appears to be a button to nowhere, as the speed-dating nature of the site means that users are more likely to simply...
This past summer as I flipped through the pages of a New Yorker, I came across a comic. The art featured a teenage boy's bedroom with a scantily clad female objectified on the wall. The boy is pulling up his mattress and bragging to his friend, “My parents are so busy checking the computer that they never think of this.”
I do believe that I...
Here is a blog from our friends at Safe Eyes. The whole Jon Mayer artical has really thrown some people in a tail spin on this subject. He makes a comment about how it has affected his generation. But, he is one of the influances for the next generation. As parents we need to be prepared to talk about this and deal with it. -...
Most of us know what secondhand smoke is. It's tobacco smoke that is inhaled involuntarily by someone who is not smoking. We’ve heard about its dangers. It causes close to 50,000 deaths a year. It irritates the eyes, nose and throat. It can lead to coughing, excessive phlegm and chest discomfort. And secondhand smoke especially hurts children....
Who would have thought we’d have to worry about our kids taking nude pictures of themselves and sending them to their friends. Well “Sexting”, sending nude pictures via text messaging or the Internet, is here and we do need to worry about it. Why? Because according to a recent study by the “National Campaign to Prevent Teen & Unplanned...
I had an interesting start to my New Year. I was at my office opening a package with the brand new Swiss Army knife I got for Christmas. The very sharp knife slipped and jabbed into the top of my index finger. I think it would have kept going if it did hit bone. Funny thing was it didn’t really hurt. It was shocking to look at but it wasn’t...
MTV has created athinline.org as a resource for teens who may be dealing with digital abuse. For those unfamiliar, this is a broad term for any form of harassment or mistreatment through digital means, with cell phones being the chief digital medium.
The findings from this study reflect much of what we already know from previous studies on...
Below is a blog from our friends at Safe Eyes. I fyou are looking for a great filter that is user friendly and available for the IPhone check them out.
Internet pornography is more problematic than ordinary pornography due to its prolific availability, affordability, and perceived anonymity. Excessive Internet pornography consumption has been...
Have you ever gotten a crummy Christmas gift? As soon as you opened it you knew it was a dud. But you couldn’t just say out loud, “What kind of a crummy gift is this?”. So you put on your best smile and said, “Oh, you shouldn’t have.” And you really meant it. Now the person that got you the gift probably didn’t mean to get you something crummy....