The document emphasizes the importance of parental monitoring regarding children's online activities in the digital age, noting that children lack the experience and self-control to navigate the internet safely. It highlights alarming statistics about exposure to pornography and urges parents to take proactive measures to safeguard their children from potential online dangers. Suggested actions include keeping devices in public spaces, monitoring online behavior, and treating online interactions similarly to real-life engagements.

1. Why It’s Important
Why as a parent you should be paying attention
to keep your children safe on your devices

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3. This is really a parenting issue.

4. "The Digital Age is upon us. In the span
of less than three decades, we have
redefined the way humans communicate,
entertain, inform, research, create, and
connect – and what we know now is only
a hint of what is to come."
ALBERT MOHLER

5. Psalm 127.1

6. Your children have lives online.
Do we know what they’re doing?

11. We can never use the excuse that
we didn’t know.
PARENTS NEED TO REALIZE THAT…
1

13. Your child does not yet have the
experience and will power to keep
themselves in check on the internet.
PARENTS NEED TO REALIZE THAT…
2

16. 960,000,000
49,337
sites on the internet as of June 2015
of those are sex sites

17. 1 in 5 searches made on a
mobile device are for porn.

18. “Adolescents who view pornography feel
shame, diminished self-confidence, and
sexual uncertainty.”
DR. PATRICK FAGAN
DIRECTOR, MARRIAGE & RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE

19. “Porn use by our youth is a greater threat to
our national well-being than our economy. If
you get connected with porn early in life, it
alters your ability to relate.”
DALE KUEHNE
SAINT ANSELEM COLLEGE

20. “A significant relationship exists between
frequent pornography use and feelings of
loneliness, including major depression in
adolescents.”
MICHELE YBARRA
PRESIDENT, INTERNET SOLUTIONS FOR KIDS

21. “Parents are the weak link in the chain
when it comes to protecting their children.”
DONNA HUGHES
PRESIDENT & CEO, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

22. The average age of first exposure to
internet pornography is
8 years old.

23. of children have viewed
pornography online,
most while doing
homework.
90%

24. of teens 15 to 17 have had
multiple exposures to
hardcore pornography.
80%

25. of sexual solicitations are
made to youth in
chat rooms.
89%

26. admit to clearing their
browser history in order
to hide internet usage
from their parents.
67%

27. Privacy is an illusion.
PARENTS NEED TO REALIZE THAT…
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28. Hebrews 4.13

29. Anyone with a computer and
the right tools and knowledge
can get any information about
you that they want.

30. Snapchat

31. Download app, sign
up for an account
Send a photo
CPP or ISP
Receiving
Servers
(Antenna)
Friend’s Device
Recipient
CPP or ISP
Servers
Snapchat
Servers
CPP or ISP
Content
Servers
(Local)

33. Do something!
• Make a list of devices in your home that access the internet.
• Have your home computer in a public place.
• Take up all devices at bedtime.
• Look for previous evidence, and keep track of your child’s
movements online.
• Beware of suspicious apps.
• Kids and Parents: live life online no differently than real life!
THINGS YOU CAN DO AT HOME TONIGHT