One of the recurring themes I hear over and over as I talk with parents who have attended my seminars is “I was so naïve”.  What they’re referring to is their naiveté (a little French lingo) on how easy it is for their kids to access porn on the Internet.  Parents often think that porn is locked away somewhere on the web, and you need a credit card and have to be an adult in order to...

Who would have thought we’d have to worry about our kids taking nude pictures of themselves and sending them to their friends. Well “Sexting”, sending nude pictures via text messaging or the Internet, is here and we do need to worry about it. Why? Because according to a recent study by the “National Campaign to Prevent Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy” 20% of teens admit to participating in it. 20%!...

Is there a child porn explosion happening? There are over 100,000 websites dedicated to child porn. It's a multi-billion dollar industry. Over the past 13 years the number of child pornography offenders has increased by 1,500%. Do you think the Internet has anything to do with that increase? I do. And while I was doing research on this issue I found a ton of news articles on child porn...

I loved watching the original Star Trek when I was a kid. Spaceships - Aliens - Strange New Worlds (you can hear the theme song in your head can’t you). As the Enterprise was buzzing around the galaxy some unknown ship would eventually be detected and Captain Kirk would say, “Shield’s Up!”. That always got my attention because I knew something good was going to happen. Often it was the...

Some of you may have heard that a porn movie suddenly interrupted part of the Super Bowl for some Comcast cable customers. The incident caused an incredible amount of outrage and has been called “grossly inappropriate”, “unethical” & “illegal”. Stories about the incident spread quickly throughout the web and were picked up by British newspapers. It also caused irate customers to flood...

I bet you never thought to ask yourself, “Did I get my kids porn for Christmas?”. I’m pretty sure you didn’t wrap up a stack of Playboy magazines and put them under the tree or put porn DVD’s in your kids stockings. Or did you?

Sometimes we don’t think or don’t know about the unintended consequences of the gifts we give our kids. For instance, did you get any of your kids a new cell phone for...

You have got to wonder when parents will keep their teens off of MySpace? I've talked about the dangers of MySpace in the past which is reason enough to keep your teens off. But here's another reason, teens often don't use their brain when they post stuff on their MySpace pages. Teens will post pictures of themselves doing all kids of off-color or inappropriate things. What they don't think...

Cyber-Bullying isn’t one of the things parents often think about when it comes to Internet dangers. But it is a danger that can have dire consequences. Before we get into the details of it lets define it. Cyber-Bullying is the use of e-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms or other forms of information technology to deliberately harass, threaten, or intimidate someone. Most of us probably got...

There was a lot of talk in the media a few weeks back about how if you put lipstick on a pig it’s still a pig. On the Internet there are a lot of pigs with lipstick. Many websites like to try to disguise themselves in the hopes of tricking our kids into going to places that may seem innocent on the outside (the lipstick part) but are rotten on the inside (the pig part). Porn sites are famous...

My family and I went up north for Labor Day weekend. We stayed in a friends cabin on the Platt River. There were a couple of Kayak’s at the cabin so my daughter and I thought we’d give it a try. I’d canoed several times when I was a kid but never kayaked. I realized I was in for a totally different experience when I went to get in the Kayak. You don’t really get in one, you wear it and...