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4 Reasons Parents Should Block the Internet at Certain Times of Day
For many parents, the amount of time a child spends online is…
For many parents, the amount of time a child spends online is not their primary concern about technology. Parents are often most concerned about the content their child consumes online—is the information false or reliable,…
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7 Ways Facebook is Similar to Porn
Recently I was doing some research about social media, hoping to learn…
Recently I was doing some research about social media, hoping to learn how to do it more effectively. A part of the research took me to this article: Four Things You Thought You Knew About Social…
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Join the Fight: Help Covenant Eyes Save Lives
People come to Covenant Eyes with some terribly heartbreaking stories. We hear…
People come to Covenant Eyes with some terribly heartbreaking stories. We hear countless stories of parents who are devastated to discover their children have accessed pornography. We answer phone calls and e-mails from husbands and…
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What if my child is addicted to porn?
The following is an excerpt from When Your Child is Looking at…
The following is an excerpt from When Your Child is Looking at Porn: A Step-by-Step Guide for Christian Parents. If you discover your child has developed a habit of looking at porn, or even something…
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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…
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…
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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Why Parents Fail to Protect Their Kids Online
A middle school choir concert isn’t the place you expect to talk…
A middle school choir concert isn’t the place you expect to talk about porn, but this mother was upset, and she didn’t know what to do. She was showing her child’s smartphone to an aunt…
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How Pain Leads to Porn
Porn was Dan’s anesthetic, numbing his wounds and relieving the ache of…
Porn was Dan’s anesthetic, numbing his wounds and relieving the ache of unmet desires. As a skinny kid who felt unattractive, Dan Wobschall’s gaze would fall to the floor or maybe to his shoes when…
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The Impact of a Gift: Giving Cautiously This Christmas
Under the sparkling lights of the Christmas tree, 8-year-old Devin ripped through…
Under the sparkling lights of the Christmas tree, 8-year-old Devin ripped through paper candy canes to find the iPod touch for which he had pleaded for months. His family smiled at his glee, but very…
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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…
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…