The PYE Download: Resource Edition!

Two items to share as many get ready for summer! In the future, we'll be sharing digital resources more consistently:

1. How to make porn a more normal conversation.
2. Time to find your digital superpowers!

Make Porn the Norm

Don’t get stuck on that title, because it’s an easy one to misinterpret.

After a parent presentation, a father named Anthony asked me, “Chris, my 5-year-old likes to use our tablet. What should I say to him so he uses it well? Do I talk about pornography? What should I do?”

Here’s the illustration I gave Anthony. He might sit down with his son and say something like this:

“You know that Dad would do anything to protect you, right? Good. So just pretend for a minute. Imagine you’re out in the woods with your friends, walking down a trail, and something scary jumps out and surprises you. You’d tell me, right? Of course you would.

Well, every time you use this iPad, it’s like going for a walk in the woods. The internet is full of trails — and most of them are totally fine. But sometimes something weird or scary pops up. If that ever happens, and especially if you see pictures of people without their clothes on, I want you to put it down and tell me. I will never, ever be mad at you for telling me. My job is to protect you.”

Tangible. Understandable. Foundational. This is how we make porn a more normal conversation. And open a door that needs to stay open for years.

Bottom line is this: Being awkward is better than being silent!

​Read my full post on Substack.​

Time to Unlock Digital Superpowers. ONE WEEK TO GO!

I thought I’d be a CFO someday.

Then I volunteered to talk to parents at our church about porn, and it changed everything.

Because I’d lived it. And in 2014, as a youth pastor, when I watched us put that same monster into our children’s pockets with smartphones, I couldn’t look away.

There was no way the thirteen-year-old version of me could have handled 100 million choices in my pocket. Could you?

So Protect Young Eyes was born! And I started saying “crazy” things to parents: "Don’t give kids smartphones! Don’t give them social media!"

Now, after years of working with families in crisis and in triumph, I’ve written it all down.

🎉 Five Habits of the Tech-Ready Family launches in ONE WEEK!

This book won’t tell you to bubble-wrap your kids or live off the grid. Instead, it gives you a five-habit framework to go from scared and overwhelmed to prepared and confident — with real guidance on the hard conversations: pornography, predators, AI companions, screen time, and more.

57% of teen girls feel persistent sadness or hopelessness. Kindergartners are losing the ability to focus long enough to color a picture.

We can do better! And I believe you’re the parent who will.

Read the introduction right now! Free, before the launch:

See you on launch day!

Parenting with you,
​Chris​
#delayistheway

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