Porn is a billion-dollar industry and a national epidemic that aims to turn your children into addicts. If the porn industry can get your kids addicted while they are young, they know they will grow into porn-addicted adults, and thus make money off of them for years to come. In Episode 110, Daniel and Christina interview Rosie Makinney about practical tools parents can take to porn-proof their kids. We discuss what signs to look for to know if your child is watching porn and how you can support a child who is struggling with a porn addiction.
In This Episode, You Will Hear About:
- Why porn is so addictive for children and teens
- 4 steps to help porn-proof your children
- Signs to look for to know if your child is watching porn
- How you can support your child if they are struggling with a porn addiction
- Incredible age-appropriate resources to help you continue this important conversation with your kids and teens
Resources Mentioned During the Episode:
- Listen to our previous episode with Rosie, My Spouse Is Addicted To Porn
- Rosie Makinney’s Fight For Love Ministries and Fight For Love Podcast
- Fight For Love: How To Take Your Marriage Back From Porn by Rosie Makinney
- Media Savvy Moms Podcast
- Parents Aware.info
- Fight The New Drug
- Fortify: Science Based Support For Lasting Change (a program for ages 13 to 17 years old)
- Your Brain On Porn
- Protect Young Minds.org
- Culture Reframed.org
- How To Talk To Your Kids About Porn (Interview With Simon Sheh)
- Protect Young Eyes.com
- Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds by Kristen A. Jenson
- Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids by Kristen A. Jenson
- Bark.us
Quotes and Tweets:
- When it comes to the issue of second-hand porn in our homes, there is still a collective blind spot despite the overwhelming evidence that parents’ porn consumption negatively impacts children. @RosieMakinney
- Porn activates the sexual part of a child’s feeling-brain before their thinking-brain even knows what sex is. @RosieMakinney
- Porn is the quiet killer of families, slowly and progressively destroying trust and intimacy between mothers and fathers. @RosieMakinney
- It is natural to want to shield your kids from the truth when it involves compulsive porn use, but experts say that it is actually worse for the child to be kept in the dark. Pretending that everything is fine will backfire. @RosieMakinney
- The average age of first exposure to porn is eleven. Other studies say the figure is closer to eight. @RosieMakinney
- My top piece of tech advice to parents is to ensure that you restrict your child’s ability to download apps onto their phone without your knowledge. You need to keep on top of what black holes your child has access to. @RosieMakinney
- Porn-proofing your kids does not happen in a single conversation. It is an ongoing dialogue.@RosieMakinney
- Even when your kids’ dumb decisions trigger you, don’t forget to take a few deep breaths before responding. Your goal here is to keep the channels open. You want your kids to come to you when they have questions about something they have seen. @RosieMakinney
- Remember: a child who is struggling with compulsive porn use is a child whose brain has been hijacked. @RosieMakinney
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Meet Rosie Makinney:
Rosie Makinney is a writer, speaker, and podcaster, who ten years ago entered the fight against her husband’s porn addiction. Through her faithful and uncompromising stance and his repentance, counseling, and group work, their marriage is now porn-free. From the very beginning, Rosie has been bold and relentless about reaching other wives struggling with porn-invaded marriages. Rosie is the founder of Fight For Love Ministries, which empowers women with both the facts and the faith to fight against pron addiction and its effects on them, their spouses, and their families. 