Brave Parenting

This episode could be confusing to children and adolescents, please listen first before inviting your kids into the conversation. Kelly and Chelsea dive into the growing trend of Sugar Dating, exposing the lies that are fed to young women on social media and looking at the topic Biblically from the perspective of Christians, parents, and spouses.

We can no longer look at fringe trends around sex in our culture and expect them to never impact our lives. With social media – they always will.

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This episode could be confusing to children and adolescents, please listen first before inviting your kids into the conversation. Kelly and Chelsea take a biblical look at recent news headlines surrounding pornography culture. In this episode, they discuss accountability apps deemed “Shameware,” deep fake pornography on Twitter, and Pornhub getting kicked off Instagram for the second time.

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This episode is for our adult, Christian audience. Kelly and Chelsea take a biblical look at God’s design for purity, what Scripture says about masturbation, and the cultural reality of online pornography’s use of violence and children for the entertainment of the masses – and how this grieves God’s heart. This episode will also equip every listener with at least ONE thing they can do today for the prevention and treatment of pornography use.

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Today we think Biblically about headlines about McDonald’s “Adult Happy Meals”, Sara Michelle Gellar’s comments regarding not allowing her kids to use social media, and common misbeliefs about adolescents and sleep.

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In this episode, we discuss how COPPA deems 13-year-olds to be “internet adults” and the implications of this 1998 policy on parenting. We highlight recent research that shows a frighteningly large percentage of kids under 13 who are regularly using social media apps as well as recent TikTok-challenge deaths in kids under 13.

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Today we think Biblically about headlines about Beyonce’s popular song ‘Church Girl,’ the NYU professor fired for his Organic Chemistry class being too hard, the state of theology in America, and Google offering a service to clear your personal information from their search engine. Our conversation circles around the need for parents to be actively living out their Christian faith in practical ways so that today’s young people can discern the relativistic teaching of culture versus that of Scripture. We pray that you find practical application and encouragement from today’s discussion.

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Literacy rates are dropping and new data shows that children’s reading level is the lowest it has been in 20 years. In today’s episode, Kelly and Chelsea discuss the lack of reading of books compared to the abundance of screen media among children and adults today. What does Scripture say about reading? Why is reading essential for the Christ-Follower? And, most importantly, what role do screens play?

Brave Parenting’s Character-Driven Booklist

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This week we are looking into news headlines about cyber-flashing, self-harm on Twitter, deciding the world is too scary to have kids, and Pornhub’s Instagram account. Whether or not your kids read these headlines, chances are that they are absorbing some of the ideas that surround these news headlines. It’s so important to have conversations with your child in order for them to think critically about what is truth, what is good, and what is right.

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In this episode we discuss the increased legalization of recreational marijuana in the U.S. and the shockingly high potency of THC in modern marijuana compared to that of 30 years ago. These two factors have led to increased mental health concerns as well as psychosis diagnosis, especially in young people. Social media is vocal on its approval of recreational marijuana use while the Bible is silent on the topic of “drugs”. Therefore Brave Parents must stand in the gap and begin having conversations with their kids about today’s use of marijuana. We dive into these issues and help you open the door to conversations with your children.

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Cannabis Policy: Public Health and Safety Issues and Recommendations

Highly Potent Weed Has Swept The Market, Raising Concerns About Health Risks

Marijuana and the Pediatric Population

Psychosis, Addiction, Chronic Vomiting: As Weed Becomes More Potent, Teens Are Getting Sick

Highly potent weed creating marijuana addicts worldwide, study says

In today’s episode, we are looking at a few recent news headlines and processing them through a Biblical worldview. We highlight children influencers and their online exploitation, Bhad Bhabie’s Scholarship Fund, Instagram’s new “less” feature for those under 16, and the growing trend of “#quietquitting”. We also throw in a bonus headline about research that defines what makes you a “bad” parent.

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