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Female Addiction: Ending the Shame for Girls

By Media Savvy Moms PodcastJul 15, 2020

What do you do when you’ve been taught one thing and your day-to-day experience is completely different? Things don’t add up. You question everything but have nowhere to go for answers. You start to believe that there’s no one else like you. How can I be a girl and like pornography? How can I be a woman and be addicted? Where do I place all this shame? Jessica Harris first stumbled upon pornography at age 13. It didn’t take long for curiosity to turn to compulsion. She spent hours upon hours consuming porn and entering chat rooms on her home…

Especially for Girls, Overcoming Pornography

Sex Talks for Daughters

By Media Savvy Moms PodcastMar 25, 2020

What is the most important message you want your daughter to hear from you about sex? Such a great question! We wish we had come up with it. But truly, it’s from Dina Alexander of Educate Empower Kids. Lucky us, she’s back on the podcast! This time helping us take sex talks for daughters a step beyond periods and puberty. We don’t have to tell you that the media isn’t very kind when it comes to women. From movies and magazines to social media and porn, women and girls are airbrushed and photoshopped, exploited, objectified, and generally made to feel…

Especially for Girls, Honest Sex Talks

Bella Girl: Instilling Value, Beauty, and Purpose

By Media Savvy Moms PodcastMar 04, 2020

When our girls look at the world around them, how do they feel? Important or insignificant? Adored or objectified? There’s a basic truth. It’s this, that all girls have value, beauty and purpose. Yet for so many the truth has been hidden. Thousands of girls in our cities and towns across this globe have never been told their worth. Bella Girl, a teen outreach program in Toowoomba, Australia, has made it their mission to change that! 20 years ago, Letitia Shelton attended a large multi-faith conference. There she heard her mayor speak passionately about the youth of their city—their struggles…

Especially for Girls, Getting Involved

Human Trafficking: Closer Than You Think

By Media Savvy Moms PodcastJan 22, 2020

I hear a lot about human trafficking in the news. Of course I’m concerned. But what do I do about it? Does it really affect me … or my children? What if your daughter (or son) was being trafficked right under your nose? While she was still living close to home and seeing you several times a week? And you had no idea it was happening? Does this seem unrealistic? In fact, that’s precisely what happened to our guest. A mother’s story about human trafficking We’re talking with Lynda Harlos, a mother who was caught in a nightmare. Her daughter…

Especially for Girls, Honest Sex Talks

Girls Struggle Too

By Media Savvy Moms PodcastOct 23, 2019

Could my daughter be struggling with pornography? Isn’t porn a ‘boy’ problem? If she is struggling, how do I talk to her about it? What kind of person comes to mind when you hear the term “porn addiction”? Man or woman? Boy or girl? Old or young? The truth is … any and ALL of these categories can be affected by pornography addiction. Society typically refers to porn as a “guy thing” or a “guy problem,” but this is a myth. Over the years, we’ve been amazed (and frankly a little discouraged) by the number of people who still believe…

Especially for Girls, Overcoming Pornography

Survival Instincts: The New Language of Tween Girls

By AnonymousApr 17, 2018

After a series of revealing conversations with her 12-year-old daughter, one proactive mom learned there’s new vocabulary circulating among tween girls in the schoolyard. Turns out, their inventive language is a way to navigate the rapidly changing attitudes of boys influenced by porn culture. These girls are categorizing their classmates based on their acceptance or rejection of pornography. [media-credit name="Pixabay" align="aligncenter" width="800"][/media-credit] At Parents Aware we want to stress how important it is for kids to feel they have a safe place to talk about the complex pressures of growing up in a hyper-sexaulized society. Read on to discover how…

Especially for Girls, Parenting Survival Tips

Raising Strong Girls in Today’s Porn-saturated Culture

By MarilynMar 30, 2018

Girls struggle with porn. Perhaps we know that objectively —but as a society and more importantly as parents we have not yet come to terms with the scope of the issue. Today we are talking about what it takes to raise strong girls in today’s porn-saturated culture. Here’s one mom’s plea for help: “I just found out my daughter’s searching for porn,” Alana (name changed) confessed in a private Facebook group. “She’s only eleven and the images are horrific! I can’t even believe what my baby’s eyes have seen.” [media-credit name="Unsplash" link="https://unsplash.com/photos/utqzIHjLons" align="aligncenter" width="800"][/media-credit] "The one addiction a woman can…

Especially for Girls, Safeguarding & Prevention