The Third Talk™ Education Bundle is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for teachers, counselors and administrators to identify, address and educate students on how to avoid exposure to adult content in their school and student body.
You might think that this can wait until next week, or next semester or next year; it really can’t.
Your students, teachers, counselors and organizational team members cannot wait any longer. The hurt is real, well documented and ubiquitous across every social media platform, gaming console, handheld device, and family computer your students will use. Even school computers. The sooner we address this subject, the better for our entire school community.
Our students and teachers deserve our bravery on this topic.
Our schools have our young people for 6 sometimes 7 hours a day, and are in the most advantageous position to address this health challenge for all our students. Because students are together the opportunity exists to address this challenge as a class or as a grade each year, and begin to dismantle the secretive and loneliness associated with addressing this challenge as an individual. To change culture for our young people we must begin now, early and often, in order to dispel the myth of explicit adult material as sex-education. We have to support our teachers while they strive to keep our students safe; no matter what subject they are addressing.
Online pornography is a real challenge for our young people.
This content can cause fear, aggression, depression, and loneliness. It can exacerbate challenges that our young people are already experiencing in school. We have seen a dramatic rise in Internet crimes against children during the Covid-19 pandemic because of the increase in screen time for young people. Those rates were not “low” before the pandemic. The hurt to the adolescent brain is well-documented, and the recovery from those challenges are lengthy and expensive. We have allowed fear, shame, and misinformation to dominate our young people’s innocent entrance into an incredibly important part of their personalities, a part of their personalities that will be important to them for most of their life. Let’s stand up together as a community and face down this challenge, for our student’s health and safety.
The strategy is well known and yet, remains to be implemented.
“The correlation between education level and sexual health outcomes has been well documented. One of the most effective ways to improve sexual health in the long-term is a commitment to ensuring that adolescents and young people are sufficiently educated to make healthy decisions about their sexual lives. Accurate, evidence-based, appropriate sexual health information and counselling should be available to all young people, and should be free of discrimination, gender bias and stigma. Such education can be provided via schools, workplaces, health providers and community and religious leaders.” World Health Organization 2018.
Please visit our resource page to read how the CDC, AASECT, DHHS and others confirm this important consideration.
We understand everyone may not be familiar with this subject, but this content affects every young person in middle and high school, regardless of their grade, race, religion, gender, socio-economic position, or romantic interest. It affects them socially and emotionally, even if they aren’t the one that views it.
We have to make it acceptable to speak with our young people about explicit adult material online;
if we can do that in our schools Nationally…
our students win.
Let’s all win together!
This is a story from a 12 year-old girl.
I hear them all of the time at our events. Believe it or not these experiences are surprisingly common.
The reality is underage American children view 460 explicit adult videos every second of every day. As teachers, counselors, and parents, we can and MUST do better to curb exposure. That will mean supporting our teachers, counselors, educators and parents as we all strive to rid our young people of this damaging exposure.
We CAN raise the next generation of kids to be “porn-proof.”
Together, we CAN teach communication, respect, and mutual care.
…and we’ll need to build a movement to make this work.
One school at a time.
I’d love for you to be with me and with your students and families.
Are you in?
