❓What If Body Safety Is Only Half the Lesson? + $50 Amazon Gift Card Winner 🎉
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Hello Reader, You already know that body safety conversations are a crucial part of parenting in 2026. But there’s a forgotten side of body safety that we tackle in our latest article: How to Be a Safe Kid: Is Your Child Only Learning Half the Body Safety Rules? Are we teaching our kids how to be safe towards other kids? It’s an important question when more than 50% of reported child sexual abuse cases involve another child as the person who caused the harm. Among adolescents, that number rises to 73%. 🤯 ⚠️ Parents also need to consider how pornography exposure fuels these stats. Children are natural imitators. When pornography enters the picture, kids encounter sexual behaviors they cannot process—or understand they should NOT imitate. Research involving more than 16,000 children and adolescents found a significant association between exposure to porn and problematic “child-on-child” sexual behavior. ❓So what can parents do? It starts with making sure our body-safety conversations include both sides:
Simple rules can give kids the clarity they need when curiosity, pressure, or something they've seen online enters the picture. Our latest article takes a deeper look at practical ways parents can help their kids become safe and respectful toward others, including how pornography can dangerously influence children’s behavior. And perhaps most importantly, kids need to know that seeing something doesn't mean they should copy it. Read the full article to learn how to complete your family's body-safety conversations today.
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Help your child build an internal filter that can help shape their future. Resources like our Good Pictures Bad Pictures books give parents a simple, age-appropriate way to talk with kids about pornography before exposure happens. |
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Hello Reader, What if you could make Good Pictures Bad Pictures books available to local families? And then be entered to win a $50 Amazon gift card? Keep reading! Good Pictures Bad Pictures are the world's most popular read-aloud books for starting age-appropriate conversations with kids about pornography. If your local library doesn’t offer them yet, you can help make it happen! ✅ Here are 3 simple steps: #1 Check your local librarySearch your library’s catalog to see whether it carries...
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