#100 - How to Confidently Talk with Your Kids About Porn | Marylin Evans

We live in the digital age where the Internet is widely available to almost everyone. This also means that access to pornographic websites has been very easy. Most children nowadays have their own gadgets and as early as the age of three, they have the knowledge of using the internet which is filled with dangerous websites which can be a bad influence and can have a negative impact on their values formation, mental health, and well-being.

There is no pre-written script or ideal time to begin a healthy conversation about porn with your children. But because children are naturally curious, parents must constantly be prepared to talk about this matter and answer questions that they might be thinking of. Starting the conversation in a light-hearted but healthy manner can have a significant impact on their behavior and mindset, not only about pornography but about a variety of other troubling issues which they may be exposed to.

In this episode, we are joined by Marylin Evans, a public speaker and founder of Parents Aware, a website where she offers one-on-one coaching to help parents prepare for the potential monsters they will inevitably encounter in their children’s virtual lives. Through her own Media Savvy Mom’s Podcast, she assists parents in planning and preparing to speak to their children about pornography and healthy sexuality in a straightforward, open, honest, and compassionate manner. 

Marylin brings us along as she describes how her mother's role as an anti-porn activist in Canada made her receptive to the topic about porn as early as her teenage years, and how this affected her ability to start the healthy talk about pornography and sexuality with her children as a parent. 

We must protect our children at all costs. Learn more about how to comfortably talk about porn with your kids and how it can help both parents and children be aware of pornography and its bad influence when you listen to Episode 100!

Shownotes

Starting a healthy conversation about porn with your children [10:23] Finding the right flow of conversation with your children [12:49] The misunderstanding of how pornography affects individuals [19:18] How Marylin started her own website [20:21] Implementation of age verification on pornographic websites in Canada [22:32] Acknowledging pornography as an issue [26:30] Parents Aware’s moonshot dream [32:05] Learning to start a conversation about the harms of pornography, and healthy sexuality with your parents [34:56]

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