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Today, sexually explicit images aren’t just those naughty magazines sold from behind the drug store counter. Milder or “soft” versions of it can be seen on billboards along the highway. Stronger forms are readily available out in the open now as well. They may be lurking just next to the candy aisle at your local convenient store.

These images are not only in the line of sight of your children but well within their grasp. But this isn’t the worst of the readily available images. Many parents are continuing to harbor explicit images and scenes by way of satellite or cable TV packages. These images are in high-definition motion picture and living color, truly bringing these scenes to life and leaving nothing to the imagination.

Could there be anything worse? Unfortunately, yes! Many parents have given (often unknowingly) their children their own private access to it. The access comes by way of the devices they carry to school, to play, and even to bed each night! All of this and more are available with a simple click on their smartphones.

How do we protect the eyes, hearts, minds, souls, and spirits of our kids against a now socially acceptable poison? Listen in as we discuss with Kristen Jensen.

Author Kristen Jensen speaks with us today to give us an update on a cultural pandemic. Kristen is the author of Good Picture Bad Pictures, a read-aloud series of books for kids that has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide! These books help kids develop an internal filter against inappropriate content.

Kristen is also the founder of Protect Young Minds, an organization dedicated to helping parents empower themselves with tools to resist and reject pornography.

She is a mom of three children and recently became a grandmother.

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Even as parents, we also need to adhere to boundaries both for ourselves and in other interpersonal relationships. But what if you were told that in some areas of life, even in your child’s life, that there may not be a reason to adhere to boundaries at all.

What if you were told that boundaries, in some cases, might actually be detrimental?

When it comes to spiritual growth and Christ’s character in our kids and ourselves, growth has no boundaries. Let’s explore what that kind of growth actually looks like today as we speak with Dr. Henry Cloud.

Dr. Henry Cloud is a graduate of Southern Methodist University with a BS in Psychology, he completed his PhD in Psychology at Biola University. Dr. Cloud is a New York best-selling author where his book Boundaries, sold over 15 million copies worldwide. His latest book is called Growth Has No Boundaries.

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You may parent a little bit different than those in your neighborhood, at the grocery store, and even those in your extended family.

A genuine commitment to God and His word can get funny looks from your kids’ friends, the parents of those friends, and even other Christian parents. But have you noticed that your kids are more emotionally well-adjusted, better behaved, and easier to handle?

Still, the temptation to give in to the prevailing parenting trends of our culture may be a nagging concern to you. Maybe no-one openly rebukes you for it, but you may still feel at times like a parenting primitive who is behind the times and raising your kids with a different set of restrictions and requirements than most other kids.

Your kids often seem to identity better adults than with their actual peer group. You are a politically incorrect parent. And we’re here to encourage you in that.

John Rosemond has worked with families, children, and parents since 1971 in the field of family psychology.

Presently, his time is devoted to speaking and writing. John is syndicated in approximately 225 newspapers nationwide. He has written eleven best-selling parenting books. He is also one of America’s busiest and most popular speakers and most certainly the busiest and most popular in his field. He’s known for his sound advice, humor, and easy, relaxed, engaging style. 

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There is only one real God we can put our faith in. But God gave us free will. We are not his puppets. We can choose to accept him. This idea of faith and the idea that bad things happen in this world led to God sending you. So how are you leading your life?

It’s time to put away the cellphone, text messaging, and video game. It’s time to get a real-life full of purpose and meaning. Walk away empowered and enriched.

It’s so important that we come to the issue of violence from the critical perspective of faith-based. You have to take the bad stuff out before you can put the good stuff in. Dragging our kids to church once a week can’t simply overcome 40 hours of violent movies and video games.

Today we continue the conversation on Grooming Our Kids for Love and Not Violence with Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. He understands how the military trains to kill and warns of the real dangers to our children in today’s video games.

If you missed Grooming Our Kids for Love and Note Violence Part I, be sure to listen in to this segment first.

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Every wise parent knows the importance of exercising boundaries with their children, but when should our children be allowed to grow without boundaries? What areas of growth in their lives need no boundaries?

Dr. Henry Cloud is a graduate of Southern Methodist University with a BS in Psychology, he completed his PHD in Psychology at Biola University. Dr. Cloud is a New York best selling author where his book Boundaries, sold over 15 million copies worldwide. His latest book is called Growth Has No Boundaries.

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In a society where the age of consent is different in almost every state, do you believe that our nation will accept or legalize what we see as pedophilia? Do you believe the age of consent in sexual encounters will be changed?

Glenn Staton is an author of 9 books including his newest, The Myth of the Dying Church. He is the director of Global Family Formation and Studies at Focus on the Family. He served in the administration for George W. Bush as a consultant on increasing fatherhood involvement, part of the head start program. He is also a senior contributor to the Federalist blog.

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Every waking hour those temptations are largely things that are highly addictive by nature. Video games, Youtube videos, social media outlets and yes, even pornography. Screen time dependency is damaging not only to our children now but as they grow up into adults.

Nicholas Kardaras is an Ivy-League educated psychologist, an internationally renowned speaker, and one of the country’s foremost addiction experts. He is the CEO and Chief Clinical Officer of Maui Recovery in Hawaii and Omega Recovery in Austin, Texas. He also the author of Glow Kids, a book on how screen addiction is highjacking our kids.

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Counterfeit comfort is anything that we turn to for comfort, though not all is bad, it should not be what comforts us. For instance, food is a blessing from God, but it was not meant to comfort us, God is meant to comfort us. God is meant to help us when we feel stress, lonely, anxious, fearful, tormented and so on. God is the one we turn to for this comfort, anything else is counterfeit.

Robia Scott began her professional career at the age of 16. She has toured with musicians such as the Pet Shop Boys and Prince. Robia started her acting career at 22, where she landed roles on Beverly Hills 90210 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was at this point in her life where she became a born again Christian. She now travels the world as a Christian speaker sharing her message of having the freedom of Counterfeit Comforts.

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Inside Shepherd’s Hill Academy, there are two types of audiences that pass through. There is the one where the kids have bought into the culture hook, line and sinker. Giving in to their temptations, whatever their bodies want, give it, whatever feels good, whether it be drugs, sex, it doesn’t matter the harm it can do.

On the other hand, we have the audience that does not necessarily understand the social cues, that have issues with friends and family. They have issues with self-esteem and self-harm. This audience needs to be taught more of the social cues in life as well as both audiences being taught how to deal with temptations in today’s society.

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Though our fathers, husbands, boyfriends, and sons are the largest market for exploited women, little is said about how these same fathers, husbands, boyfriends, and sons might also be the unapparent victims of the misogyny that’s so grossly promoted. Exactly what responsibilities do we have as parents to help stem the tides of these abhorrent double standards and gross hypocrisies?

Allison Wallace is the Director of Program Development at Shepherd’s Hill Academy, as well as the Daughter of Trace Embry. Allison grew up at Shepherd’s Hill, which gives her a unique perspective. She saw not only well-balanced families, but also her fair share of families who were out of balance, and teens who were on the brink of disaster. Allison studied counseling/psychology at Toccoa Falls College, and has been a part of residential care at Shepherd’s Hill for her entire adult life. She began as the girl’s Wilderness Program Supervisor from 2006-2013, when she then became the Director of Program Development. Allison is parent to a three-year-old, and is a repeat guest on License to Parent.

We hear so much today about men causing all the pain and suffering in the world, but especially as it applies to the exploitation of women. But what we rarely hear, if ever at all, is that women can also have a significant role to play in their own exploitation. Christian parents can have their own impact on mitigating the sexual exploitation of women—just by how they train and interact with their kids in the home. I think, however, it’s going to take a spiritual awakening to do it.

I see way too many Christian parents complicit with their Christian kids in contributing to a lot of this nonsense without even realizing it. In some cases it’s purely ignorance or naivety, while in other cases, it’s simply blatant hypocrisy. I spoke with Tucker Carlson from Fox News on a previous program, and he was talking about how obvious things should be when it comes to parenting our kids, particularly as it pertains to Christian parents. I’m absolutely astonished as to just how obvious things are not, even to Christian parents these days. I don’t mean to be overly critical or judgmental about this, but I do want to bring a dose of reality into the equation. It’s harder to come down on the unbelievers of the world for their sin and the exploitation of anyone, because they’re just fulfilling their job description. Christians, on the other hand, are supposed to be the enlightened ones; the light of the world, and redeemed people of the light. In recent times, we’ve simply been world followers, imitators, lovers, and even worshipers of the world itself.

The majority of today’s broadcast is what parents can do to give their kids a healthy perspective on godly womanhood and how to raise our kids. We want to make sure that they aren’t part of the exploitation problem, but rather part of the solution. I can’t help but believe that there’s more to this issue than what’s being talked about on most of the cable news programs these days. I think when women are being exploited, very often men are being exploited at the same time—albeit in different ways. This is particularly true in the case of pornography, but, for the sake of this program, I want to specifically talk about helping our daughters to become everything God meant for them to be. In the process, of course, I’ll be talking about our sons as well. All the hoopla in the media these days is about how men are exploiting women, and I happen to think that there’s more to the story than meets the eye—there usually is. So, I’m going to talk about that with today’s guest, a person with whom I happen to be very well acquainted – my daughter, Allison Wallace.

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