Give Your Kids a Construction Site: Creating a Safe Place for Difficult Discussions

Give Your Kids a Construction Site: Creating a Safe Place for Difficult Discussions

By Media Savvy Moms PodcastMar 13, 2019
  Learn how to create a safe place where you can talk to your kids about anything--even pornography! At Media Savvy Moms, we have 8 boys between the two of us, and at one time or another our kids have been obsessed with all things construction: trucks, videos, books, birthday parties, even a construction-truck theme park in New Jersey! When we think about difficult talks, we like to compare our “safe place” to a construction site. (This analogy actually came from Melody’s psychologist during her divorce!) This figurative “construction site” is a place where we can throw out ideas, dig…
Parenting & Communication
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Put Your Oxygen Mask On First: Taking Time for Self-Care When Your Kids Have Porn Problems

Put Your Oxygen Mask On First: Taking Time for Self-Care When Your Kids Have Porn Problems

By Media Savvy Moms PodcastFeb 27, 2019
In today's show, we'll outline 3 strategies to help parents overcome the suffocating fear of having a child who is addicted to pornography. Related Article: My Child Needs Help: 6 Practical Ways to Put Your Oxygen Mask On First Everyone knows when the cabin pressure drops, you must put your own oxygen mask on before attending to others. That’s tough advice for parents to swallow. Even in the best of times we’re apt to put our kids’ needs ahead of our own. But when it comes to helping a child let go of a compulsion to use pornography, it’s crucial…
Parenting Survival Tips
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Beware of the Rattlesnakes: Safeguarding Your Kids from Pornography

Beware of the Rattlesnakes: Safeguarding Your Kids from Pornography

By Media Savvy Moms PodcastFeb 13, 2019
What is the right age to start talking to kids about pornography? Listen and find out! Marilyn loves to go hiking in the Rocky Mountains with her family. But every time they go, her husband gives them the “snake talk,” warning them about the venomous snakes lurking in the woods and sunning themselves on the big rocks. So how does this tie in with pornography?  If your tablet had rattlesnakes in it, would you hand it to your kids without telling them about the rattlesnakes? For that matter … What is the right age to start having these difficult talks…
Safeguarding & Prevention
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Get Off the Fence: Talk to Your Kids About Pornography

Get Off the Fence: Talk to Your Kids About Pornography

By Media Savvy Moms PodcastJan 30, 2019
In this episode, we'll give you 3 strategies to get "un-stuck" and start talking to your kids about pornography. Parenting is hard work, and sometimes involves difficult discussions with our kids. For most folks, pornography is at the top of the list! We may worry … What if I say the wrong thing? So instead we stay stuck on the fence. When it comes to porn, we waffle back and forth: To talk or not to talk? That is the question. In this episode we give you 3 ways to get off the fence and start talking: Related Article: Three…
Parenting & Communication, Safeguarding & Prevention
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