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Being a young kid is an exciting time. Awkward, but exciting. Our hormones are raging, we’re discovering ourselves and our sense of individuality, we’re given more freedom and choice as we begin to navigate the world outside the direct supervision of our parents. Our feelings are big and bold and brash. They’re also unpredictable and fluctuating.
Like I spoke of earlier, I’m an elder millennial, meaning I’m a small cohort of a generation that straddles the line of life pre-internet and life post-. My adolescence was marked heavily by the internet, but not defined by it.
Subject matter experts The Third Talk Inc. today announced the release of their Parent’s Guide, a first-of-its-kind program to provide parents the language necessary to have a pornography prevention conversation with their children. Designed for parents, grandparents, caregivers, and guardians, this seven-part video series offers adults the words to use to initiate the conversation, and the multiple health and safety reasons young people shouldn’t see adult content. This video series is available at www.thethirdtalk.org and arrives just in time for back-to-school discussions each parent must now have with their young students.
The last thing I wanted to do as a teenager was to think or talk critically about porn. One ten-minute discussion during my freshman year health class had felt like more than enough. Like most of my peers, I thought I had it all sorted out on my own. Now, six years later, those same conversations I squirmed at are the ones I can’t help but start.
The Solution! The Third Talk™
“Never in the history of humankind has this amount of pornography, in such a hardcore medium, been so available to anyone at any age…”
Teens have a sneaky feeling that porn is the real sex-ed, the good stuff that we’re not telling them.
It’s not, of course, and we tell them so, but they don’t quite believe us.
Can we laugh about online pornography? Yes, we can!
Personable and without colorful language, John Van Arnam has been speaking about the harms of adult content with parents and their children for years. His style is practical and he puts everyone at ease.
By the time our kids are teens, they’ve learned what sex is and they’ve absorbed the myth that everyone is having sex, and having great sex, too.
The Third Talk™ Founder, John Van Arnam, was on ABC 13 News with Lauren Brigman.
The Third Talk™ Founder John Van Arnam spoke with WLOS Channel 13’s Lauren Brigman about the harm of online content for young people.
Some of you have told me stories about your child refusing to talk about porn. Hands over ears, fleeing the room, slamming the door.
I’ve been asked, “What should I do when my child flat out refuses to talk?”
