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Lisa Eldred is the Educational Content Strategist at Covenant Eyes, and has 10 years of experience in researching and writing about porn addiction and recovery. She has authored numerous blog posts and ebooks, including More Than Single, Hobbies and Habits, and New Fruit, which was co-authored with Crystal Renaud Day. Her writing about faith and fandoms can be found at Love Thy Nerd.

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Apply for a 2014 College Scholarship!

At Covenant Eyes, we don’t just care about keeping you safe online (though that is of course the entire point of Internet Accountability). Rather, we want to help you live a lifestyle of integrity. Not only does…

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4 Ways to Talk About Accountability Without Sounding Like a Pervert

The Covenant Eyes Customer Service Department has an unwritten rule when making outbound calls: Be cautious about leaving voice messages. This seems strange. After all, doctors leave messages instructing patients to call back for test…

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The NSA knows what your kids are doing online. Do you?

Dark deeds thrive in secrecy. The National Security Agency knows it, but do parents? The Online Disinhibition Effect is the concept that secrecy removes your inhibitions, making a person more likely to engage anonymously in…

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3 Reasons Accountability Is Better than Internet Filtering

Not too long ago, I spoke with a friend of mine who recently started using Covenant Eyes to protect his teenage sons, one of whom had been struggling with pornography. “It’s going well,” he said.…

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Turning Your Values into Online Values (and teaching kids to do the same)

Over the last few years, there has been a growing trend of parents who punish their kids online after they have misbehaved online. Sometimes these punishments have been fairly lighthearted, like the parents who grounded…

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2013 Covenant Eyes Buyer’s Guide for Game Consoles (and Other Gadgets)

As a teenager in the ’90s, one of the coolest gifts I ever received was a Game Boy Pocket. I spent countless hours staring at the 2″ black and white screen, staring intently at Tetris…

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Should I Buy My Child an iPod touch? 5 things to do before you do

Have your kids started to make their Christmas lists yet? As Black Friday approaches here in the US (as well as Cyber Monday for online retailers), it may be tempting to snap up that iPod…

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Dear Dads: Don’t Just Protect Yourselves from Porn

Recently we at Covenant Eyes received an e-mail asking why we focus so much on protecting kids. “I’m a guy who signed up for Covenant Eyes because of my own porn problem, not for my…

Don Jon’s Religion: Why the Church Often Fails to Help Porn Addicts

Recently I had the opportunity to see a pre-release of Don Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s writing and directorial debut about a young man whose porn use interferes with his relationships. While many Christians in particular would…