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Protecting Kids from Overly Sexual Internet Content

Location

Putnam Ave Upper School 100 Putnam Ave, Cambridge

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Contact

Kimberly Sansoucy
Executive Director
Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women
ksansoucy@cambridgema.gov
617.349.4695

Description

The Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women, along with Cambridge Public Schools, Cambridge Public Health Department, and the Domestic and Gender-Based Violence Prevention Initiative, are sponsoring a talk for parents of tweens and teens with Dr. Gail Dines, Professor Emerita and founding president of Culture Reframed, an organization dedicated to working with parents/caregivers to ​build resilience and resistance in kids to hypersexualized online content​.

In this workshop, parents will have a chance to talk about and learn:

  • How scary it can be to raise kids when sexual images, including pornography, are hard to avoid
  • The harmful effects of unrealistic and overly sexual images and content 
  • How to build resilience to harmful media messages and support healthier ideas about sexuality and relationships
  • How pornography affects the brain and can lead to habituation and addiction
  • Why your kids sometimes act in ways that drive you crazy
  • Action steps and resources on how to support and guide your kids

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