teens

March 26, 2015

The New Age of Sex Education: How to Talk to Your Teen About Cybersex and Pornography

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

Yesterday I launched the indiegogo crowd funding campaign for my new book, The New Age of Sex Education: How to talk to your teen about cybersex and pornography. I view this book as a prevention project. In other addictions, we see tons of prevention programs, advertisements and initiatives. Public education and public service announcements are […]

October 27, 2014

What do kids worry about online?

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

Most research that I review is written by adults from a very adult perspective. The research topics are based on adult concerns regarding the effects of cyber bullying, sexting and internet pornography on kids, which makes sense because the scientists who are conducting this research are no longer kids. However, it stands to reason that […]

September 15, 2014

How to reduce your child’s chances of sexting: Lessons from Research

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

Recently I wrote about a research study that suggested that we look at sexting in a new framework. Not as a legal issue but as part of the new “normal” teen emancipation. Not only did this study provide data to support this theory, it also brought forth some suggestions for reducing sexting in teens based […]

September 10, 2014

Why Teens Sext: Social Emancipation through Messaging

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

Friends Using Smart Phone While Leaning Against Wall

Sexting is in the news nearly every day. We hear about adults getting arrested for sexting minors or minors getting in trouble for sexting each other. I have even seen news articles where parents turn their own children into the authorities when they find out they have been engaging in sexting. Our world (or at […]

September 3, 2014

Hiding from you: Teens love apps they can hide from parents

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

Where there is a will there is a way. This is something often heard in our office. When we are dealing with trying to limit a child’s access to sexual content in the digital world or trying to create barriers for accountability for someone with a sexual addiction, we must always remember this! This is […]

August 27, 2014

What’s your Digital Immigration Status?

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

I was first introduced to the work of Marc Prensky on Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives by Rob Weiss. As we continue to advance in the digital age, this work continues to be relevant. In particular, to The New Age of Sex Education, it is very relevant to how parents relate to their more tech […]

July 28, 2014

Sexting and the Law

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

There has been a sizeable amount of press, particularly coming out of the United Kingdom, on the legal aspects of sexting and what could or would happen to adolescents if they are caught sexting, either sending images or receiving images. Around July 22, 2014, BBC news was full of articles relating to a case of […]

July 16, 2014

Yik Yak: Anonymous Gossip or Cyberbullying Haven?

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

This spring, the app, Yik Yak began to receive a large amount of attention in the news, none of it positive. School officials from Chicago to Georgia have worked to try to ban the app due to its use as a means to cyberbully students. So what is Yik Yak? It is a social media […]

July 14, 2014

Tech Savvy Parenting: Whisper

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

There is a never ending barrage of new apps entering the digital universe every day. It would be a full time job to keep up to date on all of the new offerings. This blog is slowly progressing through those apps that can be used for sexual purposes as well as their official or intended […]

July 6, 2014

How Does the Internet Affect Adolescents? What the Data Tells Us

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

As a sex addiction therapist, I tend to see the negative side of internet pornography. The people that come to me have problems with cyberpornography. The research tells us that about 10% of all users of online pornography end up having a problem (or addiction). What about the other 90%? Some people manage to be […]

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