I had 3 amazing women from the nearby city of Spanish Fork, UT, come on my podcast to share about the QPR training (Question, Persuade, Refer) developed to help decrease the rates of teen suicide in their city. One of my guests is a 911-dispatcher, one is Susan who helped spearhead this whole initiative, and one a mother who tragically lost her son to suicide at 14 who now shares her story with parents. The goal is not to just talk about the issues of rising teen suicide, but show how these types of trainings can be created in each city by just a few caring people, backed by local leaders and families, to create a stronger village. We need these programs duplicated in every city.

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So last week I went undercover, set up a fake profile, said I was a 12yr-old girl, and uncovered a huge issue on Instagram: pedophile and child p*rn accounts all over the place. Easy to find, easy to gain access to, most of these accounts have 1000,'s of people following them, sharing images and videos of kids. Accounts with names like "Love_CP" or "Little_Candy" or "Pizza...something". Pedophiles sharing links to child p*rn on their Instagram accounts, trading pics like baseball cards. Report them, and Instagram says "This account doesn't go against our community standards." What? Social media platforms like Instagram need to do a better job making their platform a safe place where children aren't being sexually exploited and abused. Facebook/IG boasts they hire the brightest minds in the world, they can addict 2B people to their platforms, give advertisers the most minutia of data on every single human, but they can't fix this issue? This episode I tell the whole story, and share insight on how child p*rnographers are using Instagram to perpetuate the creation and demand of child p*rnography, including what I think needs to change for our society to start caring more about kids. Until then, Instagram/Facebook/TikTok/Snapchat... get these out of your kids hands for good. #savethekids

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Dr. Amy Stoeber is an amazing therapist in Clackamas, WA, who I met speaking there last year as she was a panel guest at my parent night. She's a mom of teenagers and has a really awesome methodology of parenting teens we discuss on today's episode.

Check out her upcoming pareting course on https://www.doctoramyllc.com/

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These 3 amazing teenagers are all student body officers at a massive high school 30 mins from my house. Today we talk about life as a high schooler, what kids are doing on social media, what they think is working and what's not working and what parents can do to be better. Fun and eye-opening stuff. 

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Did you know the average age kids are exposed to pornography is around age 7-8? That means as parents you need to start talking about it, in the right terms, around age 3-4. No fear... there's help. Kristen Jenson is the author of 2 best-selling books called "Good Pictures, Bad Pictures" one for young kids and one for pre-teens. We bought this book years ago and read/keep reading it with our kids. As much as we'd love to make sure our kids aren't exposed to this evil, its inevitable, and NOT talking about just leads kids curiosity to search it out themselves or worse, have a friend/neighbor/cousin expose them. Now that 47% of the entire internet is porn, and we have to worry about less-vigilant (clueless?) neighbors/friends' parents, kids need to be equipped with tools to successfully manage this when not under our roof. Kristen runs www.ProtectYoungMinds.org and you can/need to buy her books on Amazon or anywhere books are sold. 

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