A Weekend of teaching Brain Defense to children
Apr 28, 2024
It was a weekend of discussing pornography with young children. Love reading books to them; the young ones had such good questions!
"When the guard scan our bodies and come close to our private parts, is that taking pictures of our private parts?" I couldn't understand the child's question, and the child's dad said that the child was referring to going through airport customs and being scanned. The context was that I reminded the children not to allow people to take pictures of their private parts.
With the primary school-going children, we discussed refusal skills and dealing with cyber bullying. They had such great questions too. One of them private messaged me to ask to speak to me after class.
The child told me that the child thinks the child is addicted to pornography (I am trying my best to avoid using pronouns so that I won't reveal whether it was a boy or girl who is struggling with it - pornography impacts both boys and girls, unfortunately).
We reviewed the CAN DO plan, and I helped the child to have specific action plans if the images came back to mind. I thanked the child for having the courage to tell me, and that I will fight with the child. I will remember to check in with the child's parents.
It breaks my heart that I need to talk about pornography with young children. The reality is that if they are on the internet, they need to know how to deal with pornography because it is not whether they look for porn, but when porn will pop up when they are online.
The next runs of Brain Defense in May, June & July are in the links below; the one in May will start this Tuesday (30 April 5pm SGT); these are for children 9-12 years old and parents are welcome to sit-in:
For children 3 to 8 years old, join me to discuss screen time management and dealing with bad pictures; the dates & times are here: https://bit.ly/digitalwellnessforyoungchildren
Let's fight porn together, for the sake of our children.
