Are your kids watching more TV this summer?
TV viewing has been linked to violent behavior, insomnia, obesity, fearfulness and restlessness. Protect your kids and control what they see on TV with TiVo’s KidZone.
Online Safety
Safe Eyes™ Internet Parental Control
Safe Eyes has earned PC Magazine's Editor's Choice for parental-control software two years running! Filter objectionable material—including social networking, IM, email, and websites—while receiving immediate alerts if questionable activity occurs! You get it all—weekly reports, PC and Mac compatibility, usage on up to three computers—for one low price! Start protecting your family with top-rated Safe Eyes today. Download now!
Featured Software Resources
Bsafe Online™ Family Protection
Bsafe Online is an award-winning filtering and online security solution protecting both your family and your PC for one low cost. Bsafe Online puts parents in control of when the Internet can be accessed, what websites are visited, records and monitors IM conversations and sends a weekly report of all Internet activity. Download Bsafe Online and protect your family today!
Articles & Links
Dangers of Online Blogs
Like the Internet as a whole, you should be aware of the dangers of online blogs and blogging.
InternetSafety.com's 5 Tips for Creating a Cybersafe Home
If you're still getting your footing in virtual parenting, don't worry. InternetSafety.com has the following tips to help ensure your child's online experience remains positive.
A Journey into Cyberspace: Protecting Children on the Internet
Despite all the news about online violence, poronography and sexual predators, the Internet can be a valuable and entertaining resource. Here are some Web sites that will help you protect your child.
Talking to Your Kids About Media Discernment
Teaching your kids about media discernment doesn't have to be difficult. It can start with a simple question.
The Internet Safety Pledge!
Use these common-sense rules to keep your child keep safe online.
Focus on the Family media resources
- Advice for the Modern-Day Family I-II (Broadcast CD)
Ever want to attend a town hall meeting about issues relevant to your family with Focus on the Family? Here's your chance. - The Seductive Lure of Internet Porn I-II (Broadcast CD)
A child exposed to Internet pornography, especially before age 14, could find himself addicted for life.
Entertainment Safety & Discernment
Featured Software Resource
With TiVo KidZone you can make television viewing safer for your family. KidZone empowers parents to choose programming that they approve and filter their selections through their TiVo receiver. TiVo also gives parents insight on specific programs, so they can feel more confident in handing the remote to the kids!
ClearPlay is a DVD player that lets you watch regular DVD's while editing out the sex, violence and profanity you don't want to see, all based on your family's preferences. You can watch a DVD "as is" without edits or navigate the simple user interface to edit out the language, violence, nudity, sexual content, and more, that you don?t want to see. It's easy to use and easy to set up. Get the details about a special offer for Focus on the Family constituents.
Articles & Links
Focus on Your Child Book Reports
Stay informed about popular youth titles without having to read them from cover to cover. Focus on Your Child book reports review the content, themes and worldviews of fiction books. Members enjoy access to our entire online archive!
How to Combat Media's Influence in Your Home
Parents who worry about the influence of the media on their kids have several options. One is to prohibit all exposure and face rebellion from children and teens. Here are some different options parents might consider
Music Reviews
Visit Plugged In Online's music reviews, plus related resources and information
Plugged in Online
Plugged In is a magazine and Web site designed to help equip parents, youth leaders, ministers and teens understand, navigate and impact the culture in which they live.
The Need for Media Discernment
Given the heavy influence of media in today's culture, it's crucial that we know and understand biblical principles to help us make sound media choices for ourselves and our families.
Focus on the Family media resources
- Movie Nights (Paperback)
Believe it or not, you can use Hollywood movies to teach discernment and godly values to your teenagers! - The New Tolerance (Paperback)
Like it or not, you're in a culture that's increasingly bent on sabotaging the foundations of your faith. Find out what you can do about it! - Equipping Parents For The Culture War I-II (Broadcast CD)
While our nation is embroiled in a war on terror, Christian parents are fighting against "cultural terrorism." - Confronting the MTV Culture (Broadcast CD)
Can you name your child's favorite TV show? Favorite movie? Favorite CD? Truth is, millions of kids — even Christian kids — are watching destructive media like MTV. It's time for parents to take a stand.
Cultural Issues & Trends
Featured Program
The Truth Project
The Truth Project is a DVD-based small group home study and the starting point for looking at life from a biblical perspective. Each lesson discusses in great detail the relevance and importance of living the Christian worldview in daily life. We believe this one project represents the possibility for exponential change within the body of Christ, as we expect that thousands will be transformed by this curriculum.
Learn more about this world-changing program.
How to Drug Proof Your Kids
The disturbing truth is, the majority of parents of children who've used illicit drugs at one time believed their kids were not at risk. How to Drug Proof Your Kids® (DPYK) is a community-based program designed to help parents grasp the reality of drug use in our culture today — one that equips parents with tools and strategies, enabling them to strengthen their families and more effectively steer their children from the harmful use of drugs.
Learn how you can get involved and drug-proof your children.Articles & Links
Family News in Focus
Family News in Focus is a broadcast devoted to family issues in public policy and culture
Human Capital
Despite society's unwillingness to protect human life consistently from the time of conception, and despite feelings by some that infants and children interfere with adult pleasures and prosperity, most cultures still value children overall. Still, as couples choose to bear fewer or no children, they contribute to the shortage of human capital.
The Sanctity of Human Life
How can we as Christians incorporate a reverence for human life into our daily lifes?
What's a Worldview?
A worldview is the framework from which we view reality and make sense of life and the world. Take steps to teach your kids why they believe in what they believe.
Worldview Training for Children & Teens
Worldview training can prompt teenagers to examine their ideas of religion and faith against the backdrop of biblical truth.
Books & Multimedia
- The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict (Hardcover)
Christians today face growing challenges to show that their faith is both relevant and credible. - How Now Shall We Live? Devotional (Paperback)
You understand God's mandate to create a society built on biblical principles — but how?
About Family Safety
Equip your family to live fearlessly.
Many parents are aware of the jeopardy that their children can be exposed to on a daily basis. The Internet, television, movies, music and the culture at large can bombard our families with a vast array of images and messages that range from unhealthy to downright dangerous. Many parents, while fearful of the dangers, are ill-equipped to deal with the problem, often choosing to ignore it and hope for the best.
Focus on the Family's family safety resources are intended to equip families with the tools to combat these threats. Consider bookmarking this page and watch for upcoming events and new resources. Most of all, equip your family to live fearlessly!