A free tool created by the National PTA and Norton to help families facilitate positive conversations and set practical boundaries that influence habits around device use for young people. The tool guides you through discussion questions, encouraging honest connection across five key digital safety topics. When you finish, it creates a downloadable agreement to support your family’s […]
by Catherine Pearlman, PhD, LCSW. This book for tweens offers insights and strategies to support them in safe and responsible device usage with cell phones. It offers guidance on privacy, boundaries, social media, and even sexting; best digital hygiene and self-care practices, including when to put the darn phone down, when to turn off notifications, […]
by Cory Silverberg. In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, this book grounds sex ed in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty—hormones, reproduction, and development—but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being. Topics include body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography, trauma, masturbation, consent, boundaries […]
by Melissa Pintor Carnagey, LBSW. A comprehensive guide that walks parents and caregivers through over 150 conversation starters, reflection exercises, and activities to begin implementing at every age and stage on topics such as: bodies, feelings, safe and unsafe touch, consent, relationships, menstruation, pleasure, online porn, gender, sex, and more.
Five video episodes of IRL friends having those conversations about queer sex, sex in the media, consent, pleasure, and more – while professional sex educators Dr. Lexx and Melina Gaze listen in to educate and bust some myths!
by Heather Corinna. This book is a graphic novel guide that covers essential topics for preteens and young teens about their changing bodies and feelings. Inclusive of different kinds of genders, sexualities, and other identities, the main characters talk about important topics like: Bodies, including puberty, body parts and body image; Sexual and gender identity; […]
LA Times article by Laura Newberry, featuring insights and strategies by Melissa Pintor Carnagey of Sex Positive Families, to help parents talk honestly with kids about sex, consent, puberty, and porn.
Free downloadable conversation guides to support the talks with children and teens about porn and sexualized media.
Helping parents and caring adults have shame-free talks with children and teens about online porn and media literacy.
Fun, animated, inclusive and sex positive short videos to help tweens and teens learn about media literacy, porn, sexting, and safety online
by Jeanne Willis. Everyone loves Goldilocks’ hilarious online videos, but in her quest to get more likes, more laughs and more hits, she tries something a little more daring: stealing porridge #pipinghot, breaking chairs #fun, and using someone else’s bed #sleep. What will Daddy Bear do when he sees that online? A hilarious cautionary tale […]
by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan. How do you find the answers to all the questions you have about yourself, about your identity, and about your body? This book provides a comprehensive, thoughtful, well-researched, inclusive graphic novel guide to everything you need to know. Covering relationships, friendships, gender, sexuality, anatomy, body image, safe sex, sexting, […]