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Brad Burge has an ‘idea worth spreading’ for a solution to help with PTSD

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Brad BurgeTEDxSalem is proud to announce anoth­er sur­prise speak­er for our Jan­u­ary 6, 2018, event “Through the Look­ing Glass.”

A few months ago, Brad Burge returned from Burn­ing Man, the tem­po­rary city of artists and cre­ators in the Neva­da desert. He was there vol­un­teer­ing for the Zen­do Project, a group that sup­ports peo­ple who are hav­ing dif­fi­cult episodes with psy­che­delics or oth­er drugs.

Brad is Direc­tor of Strate­gic Com­mu­ni­ca­tions for the Mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary Asso­ci­a­tion for Psy­che­del­ic Stud­ies (MAPS), an asso­ci­a­tion that rethinks the role of psy­che­del­ic drugs in our soci­ety. The Zen­do Project falls in line with the first part of MAPS’ mis­sion: edu­cate and reduce harm.

“We don’t call it a bad trip,” Brad said, “because every psy­che­del­ic event brings up infor­ma­tion that needs to be dealt with. The Zen­do Project has found that they can pro­vide sup­port in a way that offers the best out­come pos­si­ble.”

Tra­di­tion­al respons­es of police or med­ical per­son­nel, while well mean­ing, he said, can make a bad trip worse. Those respons­es don’t allow a per­son to fin­ish pro­cess­ing the thoughts and mem­o­ries that have come up. At Zen­do Project, in con­cert with law enforce­ment and med­ical staff, they sit with the per­son, offer sup­port and lis­ten until they are safe to return to their friends. Brad reports that the ser­vice is so suc­cess­ful that Burn­ing Man is plan­ning for a sec­ond Zen­do Project facil­i­ty next year.

The sec­ond part of MAPS’ mis­sion is to pro­vide research into new ways of treat­ing psy­chi­atric dis­or­ders with psy­che­del­ic drugs. Rather than being counter-cul­ture, MAPS works with­in the sys­tem to explore the legit­i­mate ben­e­fits psy­che­del­ic drugs may have in treat­ing men­tal health.

Brad describes the results they are see­ing in their work with PTSD as “real­ly promis­ing.” So promis­ing that the FDA grant­ed them break­through ther­a­py des­ig­na­tion, which means pre­lim­i­nary clin­i­cal evi­dence indi­cates that the drug may demon­strate sub­stan­tial improve­ment over exist­ing ther­a­pies. They are now mov­ing into phase III of clin­i­cal tri­als.

Brad’s per­son­al sto­ry brought him to MAPS while he was work­ing on his doc­tor­ate at UC San Diego. After study­ing both psy­chol­o­gy and com­mu­ni­ca­tions at Stan­ford, Brad’s mas­ter’s research on psy­che­delics inter­sect­ed with his own jour­ney of men­tal ill­ness.

He had been on lithi­um for near­ly 11 years when he had his first expe­ri­ence on a psy­che­del­ic drug. Brad’s train­ing and edu­ca­tion on the evils of psy­che­delics stood in sharp con­trast to his expe­ri­ence.

“For my whole life I had been raised to believe that men­tal health phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals work like keys in a lock… that I was some­how bro­ken and need­ed to be fixed… For the first time in my life I felt like I could be a whole per­son… I felt like I had been miss­ing out on oppor­tu­ni­ties to grow.”

Brad’s per­son­al expe­ri­ence of the impact that ther­a­peu­ti­cal­ly guid­ed psy­che­delics could have has moti­vat­ed him to edu­cate peo­ple about the pol­i­tics of drugs in our soci­ety and to pro­mote the legal research of the ben­e­fits that these drugs can have.

Come to TEDxSalem and hear the rest of Brad’s sto­ry as he offers us a glimpse into an unex­pect­ed future for psy­chi­a­try in Amer­i­ca.

Speak­er: Brad Burge

Pets: “My part­ner has a pet, a beau­ti­ful lit­tle cat, Maho, that is very talk­a­tive, and I have effec­tive­ly adopt­ed her.”

Favorite Movie: “Sci-fi always works. I am super into imag­in­ing what the future holds.”

Favorite Book: “Dune”

Favorite Music: Grate­ful Dead or glitchy tech­no. Brad also con­firms lis­ten­ing to Alaba­ma 3 “for sure.”

Favorite Food: Sala­mi. “Because it keeps for a long time out of the fridge.”

Favorite Drink: Guaya­ki Yer­ba Mate

Hob­bies: Big time back­pack­er: “I just got back from a 45-mile hike through Sequoia and King’s Canyon in Cal­i­for­nia Sier­ra. I hope to find some back­pack­ing or hik­ing while I am in Port­land.”

Get your tickets for TEDxSalem V

TEDxSalem V is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag Sat­ur­day, Jan. 6, at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Pur­chase tick­ets here. Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.com.

Mas Blue comes to TEDxSalem in January

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TEDxSalem is proud to announce one of the first of our sur­prise speak­ers —

Mas Subramanian

Mas Sub­ra­man­ian trans­formed the world’s col­or palette in 2009 when he dis­cov­ered the first new blue pig­ment in near­ly 200 years.

The world respond­ed with won­der for YIn­Mn Blue, a bright, elec­tric hue. Cray­ola released its “Blueti­ful” cray­on as a cel­e­bra­tion of his dis­cov­ery. Artists have embraced the new blue, which was recent­ly released as an oil paint by the Shep­herd Col­or Com­pa­ny.

Many refer to it as Mas blue, a nod to the inventor’s name and the word for more in Span­ish. Artnet.com even announced that this dis­cov­ery will be chron­i­cled in Har­vard Art Museum’s pig­ment col­lec­tion.

“I have filed a lot of patents in my life,” Mas said, “but none have changed my life like this one.”

Mas, a pro­fes­sor of mate­r­i­al sci­ences at Ore­gon State Uni­ver­si­ty, first sub­mit­ted his research to the Jour­nal of Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety  in 2009. Since then he has been fea­tured by The New York Times, NPR, the Ore­gon­ian, Men­tal Floss, Quartz, Busi­ness Insid­er, Fast Co. design, The Tele­graph, Forbes, Today, NY Mag, and even Cos­mopoli­tan.

But Mas didn’t just dis­cov­er a new blue, he dis­cov­ered a new way to pro­duce pig­ment for both blue and many oth­er col­ors as well.  YIn­Mn blue is non-tox­ic, has heat-reflec­tive prop­er­ties and is set to rev­o­lu­tion­ize indus­tries from home and auto paint to roof­ing.

As a young boy in India, Mas was inspired to pur­sue the life of a sci­en­tist by the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which he con­sid­ered one of the great­est movies ever made.

“What was fic­tion in the movie became real­i­ty. The movie showed a tablet-like device which resem­bled the iPad of today. That was amaz­ing!”

Mas earned a Ph.D. in Chem­istry from Indi­an Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy, Madras, India and was a post­doc­tor­al fel­low at Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty. He has writ­ten sev­er­al books and worked as lead researcher for DuPont Chem­i­cals.

Mas was raised in the Hin­du faith, which has had a sig­nif­i­cant impact on his life and giv­en him val­ues to pat­tern his life after.

“I con­sid­er Hin­duism a “phi­los­o­phy” rather than a reli­gion. Respect is an extreme­ly val­ued com­po­nent of the every­day life in India.”

Mas says the val­ues of renun­ci­a­tion, giv­ing, ded­i­ca­tion, truth and non-vio­lence have helped him to live well and be a bet­ter per­son. Mas also makes a point to influ­ence his com­mu­ni­ty.

“One of my pas­sions is to inspire young minds (both boys and girls) to become sci­en­tists.”

Mas also invites two to three local high school stu­dents to his lab at OSU each year to gain hands-on expe­ri­ence in sci­en­tif­ic research.

Mas and his wife love trav­el and learn­ing about oth­er cul­tures and cus­toms. They recent­ly spent three weeks in the Aus­tralian out­back learn­ing about Abo­rig­i­nal Aus­tralian cul­ture.

Mas says trav­el is the best kind of edu­ca­tion he has expe­ri­enced.

“Trav­el gives me time to think, observe and learn new things — cul­ture, food, his­to­ry.”

TEDxSalem is excit­ed to wel­come Mas and his ‘idea worth spread­ing.’

Get your tickets for TEDxSalem V

TEDxSalem V is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag Sat­ur­day, Jan. 6, at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Pur­chase tick­ets here. Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.com.

Rose Barker: The Value of Identity

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TEDxSalem speak­er Rose Bark­er is equal parts world trav­el­er and safe­ty guru.

 

She spent a year in Ecuador doing every­thing from vol­un­teer­ing at a church and orphan­age to get­ting her kite­board­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and swim­ming in the ocean near­ly every day.

 

“It was a full expe­ri­ence,” she says.

 

She also lived in Mex­i­co for about a year, vol­un­teer­ing as an inter­preter for sev­er­al non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tions.

  

Yet she bal­anced her desire for adven­ture with an empha­sis on safe­ty. A self-described “para­noid trav­el­er,” Bark­er invent­ed a ‘Pass­port Pock­et’ to safe­ly and com­fort­ably con­ceal pass­ports, mon­ey and oth­er vital doc­u­ments inside one’s cloth­ing.

 

Despite her focus on safe­ty and pro­tec­tion, her out­ward dis­po­si­tion is friend­ly, open. The first word that comes to mind is ‘ebul­lient.’ Not only in the way that she greets vis­i­tors with a hug and insists on offer­ing them some­thing to eat, but in the way she talks — thought­ful­ly, ani­mat­ed­ly.

Bark­er believes strong­ly in social jus­tice and liv­ing in com­mu­ni­ty. She worked at CAPACES Lead­er­ship Insti­tute, a Wood­burn-based non­prof­it geared toward devel­op­ing advo­ca­cy in Oregon’s migrant farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty. It was dur­ing her time at CAPACES that Bark­er got inter­est­ed in increas­ing access to legal ser­vices, which she calls “empow­er­ing.”

“You have to know what your rights are in order to stand up for your­self,” she says.

Her inter­est in advo­ca­cy and safe­ty even­tu­al­ly merged and led to a career as a cer­ti­fied risk man­age­ment con­sul­tant. She gives talks to employ­ers and state agen­cies about the impor­tance of, and use­ful tech­niques for, pro­tect­ing one’s iden­ti­ty from hack­ers and thieves.

 

“Our iden­ti­ties,” she says, are “one of the most valu­able things we own.”

 

And reclaim­ing your iden­ti­ty is a tough bat­tle. Vic­tims can have a chal­leng­ing time prov­ing that some­one else stole and assumed their iden­ti­ty to com­mit a crime. Iden­ti­ty theft, she said, is one of the few crimes where the vic­tim is guilty until proven inno­cent.

 

She hopes to help oth­ers pro­tect them­selves before it’s too late. If you want to learn about the inter­net of things and how to keep your­self safe, check out Barker’s talk Sat­ur­day, Jan. 6 at TEDxSalem.

Get your tickets for TEDxSalem V

TEDxSalem V is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag Sat­ur­day, Jan. 6, at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Pur­chase tick­ets here. Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.com.

Evelin Dacker: Let’s talk about sex, bay-bee!

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Dr. Evelin Dack­er wants to talk about sex, and she’s not afraid of your hang-ups because she is in it for your health.

“I feel like if peo­ple are going to black­list me because I’m talk­ing about sex, that’s OK,” says Evelin, “because some­body has to do it.”

Evelin, pro­nounced “Ev-uh-LEEN,” is a doc­tor of fam­i­ly med­i­cine and the own­er of VIDA Inte­gra­tive Med­i­cine and Behav­ioral Health. Born in Cal­i­for­nia and raised in New York, Dack­er attend­ed school at Case West­ern Reserve Uni­ver­si­ty in Cleve­land, Ohio. She moved to Salem 21 years ago, when she came to work for NW Human Ser­vices at the West Salem Clin­ic doing com­mu­ni­ty med­i­cine (Fam­i­ly Med­i­cine and Obstet­rics).

Sex is a large part of holis­tic human health, says the 52-year-old, but very few are will­ing to even acknowl­edge it. Dack­er is though, and she’s ready to get your atten­tion.

“I’m a loud­mouth,” she says. “I’m not scared to have a con­ver­sa­tion with peo­ple about it.”

The sta­tus quo is not get­ting it done, she says. With­out frank and open dia­logue, the risk of dis­ease and abuse only increase. That’s why talk­ing about sex with her patients is part of her inte­gra­tive care.

This isn’t the first time she’s been out­spo­ken, either. It’s part of her per­son­al­i­ty. Dack­er was a mem­ber of the Cher­ry City Der­by Girls (now Cher­ry City Roller Der­by) from 2009–2011, where she was apt­ly called “Dr. Smack’r.”

And now, cre­at­ing a “sex-pos­i­tive cul­ture” is her mis­sion.

“Even if I just stop one or two peo­ple” from suf­fer­ing, she says, “then I’ve done my job.”

Speak­er: Evelin Dack­er

Name Pro­nounced: “Ev-uh-LEEN”

Favorite Movie: Heat, and also The Shel­ter­ing Sky; dra­mas that pro­voke thought. “I like to go deep with things.”

Favorite Book: The Unbear­able Light­ness of Being, by Milan Kun­dera

Favorite Music: 1980s new wave, alter­na­tive and jazz; also EDM, Bol­ly­wood and Latin danc­ing music.

Get your tickets for TEDxSalem V

TEDxSalem V is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag that takes place Sat­ur­day, Jan. 6, 2018, at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Pur­chase tick­ets here. Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.com.

TEDxSalem announces 2018 speakers

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It’s the moment that we’ve all been wait­ing for since last year’s TEDxSalem rev­o­lu­tion. 

We have nine new speak­ers for 2018, plus a few sur­prise ones you will be hear­ing about soon. 

“Every­one is going to step through the look­ing glass and expe­ri­ence some­thing new,” said co-cura­tor Car­lee Wright about this year’s line up. 

TEDxSalem is proud to intro­duce the class of TEDxSalem V.

Cayla Skillin-Brauchle

Cay­la  Skillin-Brauch­le believes art has the capac­i­ty to allow us to envi­sion and prac­tice life mean­ing­ful­ly.  She exhibits draw­ings, instal­la­tions and per­formance art inter­nation­al­ly and lives and works in Salem, where she is Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Art at Willamette Uni­ver­si­ty. She joins TEDxSalem as our third Artist-in-Res­i­dence.

Evelin Dacker

Dr. Evelin Dack­er has been prac­tic­ing med­i­cine in Salem since 1996. Her inter­ests are in women’s health, holis­tic and inte­gra­tive med­i­cine and sex­u­al health. In 2005, she opened up Salem’s first holis­tic med­i­cine clin­ic, VIDA Inte­gra­tive Med­i­cine. When not prac­tic­ing med­i­cine, Evelin enjoys being in nature, trav­el, dance and spend­ing time with her fam­i­ly and friends.

 

Jackson Rayne

A head­lin­ing illu­sion­ist, TV per­son­al­i­ty, and world record hold­er, Jack­son Rayne walks through walls, defies death, and lives life to its fullest. His magic and world record escapes have been fea­tured on nation­al tele­vi­sion in sev­er­al coun­tries around the world. With his engag­ing charm, high-ener­gy mag­i­cal per­for­mances, and obses­sion for push­ing the bound­aries, Jack­son inspires and con­nects with his audi­ence in unfor­get­table ways.

Kaydee Kreitlow

Kaydee Kre­it­low grew up in a geo­des­ic dome in Beaver­ton, Ore­gon. From there she moved to NYC to study archi­tec­ture, trav­eled, and dab­bled in con­struc­tion. She works as an archi­tect in Salem and spends most of her time try­ing to wear out her ener­getic dog. Kaydee’s talk will delve into Urban Sanc­tu­ar­ies and how to find sanc­tu­ary in the built envi­ron­ment.

Laura Mack

Lau­ra Mack  is an artist, edu­ca­tor, and art edu­ca­tion advo­cate that lives inSalem, Ore­gon with her hus­band and two boys. She makes mixed media col­lages and draw­ings, teach­es art and cre­ativ­i­ty at Chemeke­ta Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege, and coor­di­nates the vol­un­teer-dri­ven Art Lit­er­a­cy pro­gram at Salem Heights Ele­men­tary School. Her TED talk is about get­ting cre­ative with the val­ue of art edu­ca­tion.

Marie Greene

Marie Greene is a knitwear design­er, writer, knit­ting instruc­tor and inter­na­tion­al speak­er with empha­sis on fiber arts and slow fash­ion. She has spent her life embrac­ing time-hon­ored process­es and mak­ing them more acces­si­ble with today’s tech­nol­o­gy. Marie is the leader of the Salem, Ore­gon chap­ter for Ris­ing Tide Soci­ety, a com­mu­ni­ty for cre­ative entre­pre­neurs, and is the own­er of Olive Knits, knitwear design.

Rose Barker

As a Cer­ti­fied Risk Man­age­ment Con­sul­tant, Rose Bark­er is an expert on iden­ti­ty theft. She is a Salem, Ore­gon native and avid­ly sup­ports fos­ter­ing local com­mu­ni­ty, but also loves serv­ing the inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty. She has spent sev­er­al years in Latin Amer­i­ca on more than 20 inter­na­tion­al trips. When not help­ing busi­ness­es and employ­ees, you can find Rose gar­den­ing, cycling, swim­ming across the Willamette Riv­er, vol­un­teer­ing, and play­ing with her adorable dog, Foxy.

Seth Tichenor

Seth Tichenor is a teacher, schol­ar, pub­lic lec­tur­er, and cham­pi­on for the trans­for­ma­tive pow­er of philo­soph­i­cal dis­course and reflec­tion. He has been teach­ing phi­los­o­phy and lead­ing philo­soph­i­cal dis­cus­sion groups at col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties as well as to the gen­er­al pub­lic for over 20 years. In 2009, with his part­ner Gad Perez, Seth estab­lished “Philoso­far­i­an – a guer­ril­la phi­los­o­phy project” as a way of bring­ing philo­soph­i­cal inquiry, reflec­tion, and dis­course to every­one in their com­mu­ni­ty and beyond.

Stay tuned to hear more about our speak­ers and the hand­ful of mys­tery ones who will join the list.

Save the Date: TEDxSalem V is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag that takes place Sat­ur­day, Jan. 6, 2018, at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Ear­ly bird tick­ets go on sale Sept. 1. Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.us.

Warren Binford: Child advocate braves subject few discuss

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War­ren Bin­ford works to improve the lives of chil­dren wher­ev­er she goes.

The Willamette Uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sor taught mid­dle school in South Cen­tral LA before Teach for Amer­i­ca was a thing. She served abused and neglect­ed chil­dren as a Court Appoint­ed Spe­cial Advo­cate, and she even picked law as a career to pro­tect kids.

“They are so pre­cious, and they have so much poten­tial,” said Bin­ford.

But that poten­tial is frag­ile if it isn’t safe­guard­ed.

One threat that few except Bin­ford are brave enough to dis­cuss: the impact of inter­net porn on devel­op­ing brains. It’s a sub­ject she will tack­le next month at TEDxSalem 2017.

It’s a tough top­ic, but Bin­ford doesn’t pull any punch­es. She’s not talk­ing about your father’s Play­boys either, but the kind of porn that includes chil­dren, vio­lence, ani­mals and group sex. It’s all three clicks away, she said, regard­less of how old you are.

“They see stuff that they shouldn’t even be think­ing about at an age before they have even kissed some­body,” she said.

The con­se­quences can be pro­found for boys as they mature. Over­ex­po­sure to inter­net porn can dull sex­u­al plea­sure, reduce sex­u­al func­tion, increase risk for anx­i­ety and depres­sion and lead to regres­sive atti­tudes toward women and even vio­lence, she said.

But there are steps that par­ents can take includ­ing using fil­ters, keep­ing com­put­ers in a shared spaces and talk­ing to kids about what they do and see online. Bin­ford hopes the Unit­ed States will also adopt age restric­tions sim­i­lar to those in the Unit­ed King­dom, which make it hard­er to stum­ble upon pornog­ra­phy online.

“I’m not an anti-porn advo­cate,” Bin­ford said, “but there should be zero expo­sure to extreme porn in child­hood. It’s like tox­ic waste, and it can com­pro­mise a child’s health for the rest of their lives.”

Bin­ford start­ed the child and fam­i­ly advo­ca­cy clin­ic at Willamette Uni­ver­si­ty and has stood up for child vic­tims around the world. Lis­ten to Bin­ford’s ideas on how to pro­tect chil­dren at TEDxSalem this Jan­u­ary.

Get your tick­ets for TEDxSalem IV

Tick­ets are on sale now for Salem’s annu­al TEDx event Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 7, 2017. Tick­ets are $50, $40 for stu­dents. The all-day event includes talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag. Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.us.

 

      Eight tools to block internet porn from WEBROOT.com

  1. Set your search engine to “safe search” mode: For Google users go to http://www.google.com/familysafety/; Bing users go to http://www.bing.com/preferences.aspx; and, if you use anoth­er search engine, go to the safe­ty set­tings and find this fea­ture.  If you child uses ser­vices like YouTube, be sure you have set the “safe” mode on those plat­forms as well.
  2. Use the fam­i­ly safe­ty tools pro­vid­ed by your computer’s/device’s oper­at­ing sys­tem: Both Win­dows and Mac oper­at­ing sys­tems pro­vide fam­i­ly safe­ty set­tings. Android and iOS also have fam­i­ly safe­ty tools.
  3. Use fam­i­ly safe­ty tool ser­vices: Some­times called parental con­trols, these tools allow you to set spe­cif­ic fil­ters to block types of con­tent you find inap­pro­pri­ate. This isn’t just some­thing to apply to youth; plen­ty of adults pre­fer to fil­ter out porno­graph­ic and oth­er types of con­tent – like hate and vio­lence.  The appro­pri­ate­ness of some types of con­tent will change as chil­dren mature; oth­er types of con­tent may always be unac­cept­able. To find the tools that best fit your family’s needs, search for parental-con­trol or fam­i­ly-safe­ty-tool reviews.Keep in mind that these tools need to be installed on every device your child uses to go online: game con­soles, cell phones, tablets, per­son­al lap­tops and com­put­ers. Some ser­vices have cov­er­age for all types of devices, oth­ers are lim­it­ed to just com­put­ers or phones. You may find that using a sin­gle solu­tion on all devices makes your mon­i­tor­ing much eas­i­er.
  4. Peri­od­i­cal­ly look at your children’s brows­er his­to­ry. There are a num­ber of phras­es youth use to get around pornog­ra­phy fil­ters – like “breast feed­ing” and “child­birth” – and some fast-chang­ing slang terms that fil­ters may not have caught up with like “walk­ing the dog,” which is a slang term for sex. If you see odd search terms, give the sites a quick look.
  5. Have your chil­dren restrict access to their social net­work­ing sites to only known friends, and keep their sites pri­vate. A great deal of pornog­ra­phy is shared among pri­vate albums on social net­work­ing sites.
  6. Scan the pho­tos on your child’s cell phone once in a while. While the youngest kids aren’t sex­ting, by the time they’ve hit their tweens they have begun par­tic­i­pat­ing in this type of behav­ior. Let your chil­dren know that every so often you will sit down with them and go through the pic­tures they have stored on their phone.
  7. Review the appli­ca­tions your child has down­loaded to their phone or tablet. Mobile con­tent fil­ters may not catch all the poten­tial­ly inap­pro­pri­ate apps.
  8. You are your strongest tool. No tech­ni­cal block­ing solu­tion alone is enough to pro­tect a deter­mined child or teen from find­ing pornog­ra­phy online. Have the “talk” on an ongo­ing basis with your chil­dren and spouse about the con­tent your fam­i­ly finds appro­pri­ate and inap­pro­pri­ate; this exchange should nev­er be a one-time con­ver­sa­tion.