Parents

Parents feel ill-equipped to understand internet devices, apps, and smartphone settings.

Here parents will find the tools to assist them in protecting the home, educating themselves and their children while at the same time assuring the home is a safe haven for all.

Courses and Email Challenges for Parents

The Safe Digital Family Challenge

Receive seven days of emails to help you with the latest parental control ideas for your home. YouTube, Google SafeSearch, iOS, and more. All covered!

Audience: Parents
Language: English and Spanish
Resource Type: 7-Day email challenge
Cost: Free

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Digital Detox: 7 Days to Reconnect With Your Kids

Summer break. Christmas break. Anytime. Make your family time count with this 7-Day Digital Detox! It’s seven days of emails designed to help you reconnect as a family in fun and easy ways.

Audience: Parents
Language: English
Resource Type: 7-Day email challenge
Cost: Free

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Protect Young Eyes Digital Culture of Kids

The Digital Culture of Kids

Chris McKenna from Protect Young Eyes brings their nationally recognized internet safety expertise to bear on a series of short, actionable lessons for parents.
Topics covered include:
pornography, predators, sexting, social media, screen time, cyberbullying, anxiety, and depression. All presented through a Scriptural lens.

Audience: Parents and other caring adults
Language: English
Resource Type: Video course
Cost: Free

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Ebooks for Parents

Equipped: Smart Catholic Parenting in a Sexualized Culture

In this ebook, we show parents how to have honest conversations about self-image, sexuality, sin, shame, as well as provide proven methods for training your children how to be media literate, and more.

Audience: Parents
Language: English and Spanish
Resource Type: Ebook
Cost: Free download or $2 per hardcopy.

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Confident: Helping Parents Navigate Online Exposure

When a parent discovers his or her child or teenager has been looking at pornography, it can be alarming, hurtful, even frightening. Confident provides a full step-by-step guide for parents who want to navigate these unchartered waters.

Audience: Parents
Language: English and Spanish
Resource Type: Ebook
Cost: Free download or $2 per hardcopy

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Connected: How Strong Family Relationships Lead to Internet-Safe Kids

This ebook gives us a renewed understanding of the value of connection by focusing on the four primary relationships in our lives: with God, ourselves, our spouse, and our children, in order to show the connectedness we were made for in each relationship and what happens when that connectedness is threatened by technology and online dangers.

Audience: Parents
Language: English and Spanish
Resource Type: Ebook
Cost: Free download or $2 per hardcopy

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Top Blog Picks for Parents

The Impact Pornography Has On Vocations

July 12, 2021

A virtuous soul and person of strong character is one to look up to. But how do you raise your children not to just be well-rounded, but well-formed? How do we raise our kids to overcome the temptation that original sin presents in their lives? When one practices self-control they bring honor into their vocation, whether this be to the priesthood, religious life, or married life. We must lead by example and never forget the power of prayer!

Are You Equipped for Summer? (10 Steps Parents Can Take)

June 14, 2021

We all know summer is a busy time of year. We try to fit everything in! But let's be honest, the one thing that tends to slip out of sight is the way our kids are using their online gadgets. One talk can make a difference and equipping ourselves for this initial conversation and the ongoing formation (even better!) can bring about a more significant change in the life of your children and your family as a whole.

Grandma, I Saw Bad Photos.

October 19, 2020

Today, our families are forced to begin having challenging conversations long before we feel emotionally ready for them. I am not yet a grandmother, but I imagine that some day soon, I will be a part of their faith formation. As such, I’ve already begun to think and pray about how I might handle the topics that challenge today's parents, including how to protect them from digital addiction. Whether accidentally or with intent, the day may well come when I am faced with helping my grandchild deal with the aftermath of exposure to pornography.

The 5 Benefits of Covenant Eyes for a Catholic Family

July 15, 2020

Imagining a world, particularly an online world, without pornography, is likely a dream rather than any near-term reality. However, hope is not lost, and neither is the potential to raise resilient and heroic kids, young men, and women that will carry on their parents', and ultimately Catholic, values. As parents, and even individually as fathers, we hope to pass on our values and morals to the next generation. Accountable families, particularly families with a strong faith foundation, can expect this and several other direct benefits from using Covenant Eyes.

Not If, But When

January 15, 2020

It’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Children will be exposed to pornography. We need to be preparing ourselves and our children for when exposure to porn happens, because they will be exposed at some point in their life, like it or not. We need to be preparing ourselves and our children for when exposure to porn happens, because they will be exposed at some point in their life, like it or not. Plus, we need to have a plan.

Survey Shows Why Parents Should Keep Smartphones Out of the Bedroom

May 10, 2018

If you’re like the majority of parents, you’ve chosen to provide your children with a smartphone and internet access. Sometimes, this decision is made without fully understanding all of the ways in which our children can access pornography. A high percentage of pornography consumption by high school students happens on smartphones, in the bedroom, and/or when they’re bored. These are things parents can control.