It is no secret that our culture has become increasingly sexualized. More than that, it has been increasingly sexualized towards our children.
A recent example is popular baby brand, Frida Baby, who came out with a new product – the 3-in-1 Thermometer.
In the social media caption, they wrote that this baby thermometer, meant for your infant, is the “closest your husband’s gonna get to a threesome.”
Understandably, parents (including myself) were enraged.
Their apology consisted of claiming they were trying to bring humor to the hard reality that parenting often is.
Sexualizing infants is not funny.
Promoting and normalizing sexual deviancy is not funny.
As someone who owns Frida Baby products, I will never purchase from this company again.
This is just one example of how desensitized and vile our society has become when it comes to sexuality and children, and it only gets worse as they enter their teen years.
A recent study reports that 1 in 5 teenagers experience sex extortion on the internet.
“Respondents predominantly (61%) knew their sextortionists exclusively online; nearly all (94%) of the threats made toward the victims were in digital forums, generally via social media or direct messaging services.”
Protecting your kids’ internet browsing and social activity is more important than ever.
According to the FBI, it is estimated that 500,000-750,000 predators are active online every single day.
According to Childlight, over 300 million children are victims of sexual exploitation and abuse online every year.
While limited online activity is most-definitely needed, along with the basic safety precautions of no internet or social media access in private areas of your home, getting rid of internet entirely is just not realistic for many families.
This is why your family might benefit from Accountable2You, an affordable digital accountability and filtering software.
Their family plan makes it simple and easy for you as parents to put screening and filtering safeguards on up to 20 devices.
Not only will accountability software keep your children safe while using the internet, you will automatically train your children how to be smart in a digital age.
Taking steps to show your children the danger of the internet and social media at a young age through the use of blocking technology will teach them how to be aware of an array of suspicious activity such as:
- Spam emails,
- Scam text messages,
- Strange social media profiles and more.
Protecting our children in this digital age that is stacked with AI technology and online predators is hard enough.
Accountable2You makes it easier.
