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Parents 4 Purity Resources
With the many resources available to parents out there it can be hard to know what resources are the best. All of the resources below were vetted and complied by members of Be Broken team and Pure Life Alliance.
Past events
Parenting in a Sexualized World
With Anne Kerr and John Fort
Raising a child to value sexual purity in our current culture is hard. Knowing when and how to talk to your kids about God’s design for sexuality can be challenging for anyone. On April 3, 2021, we held a live interactive conversation via Zoom for parents raising toddlers through high schoolers.
Foundational books
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Honest Talk: A New Perspective on Talking to Your Kids About Sex
by John W Fort. #CommissionsEarned Overviews how to have conversations that kids ages 5 - 18 connect to. The importance of discussing feelings, God’s design for sex beyond reproduction, talking about sex at different ages, preparing for puberty beyond body changes, addressing masturbation, accountability with adolescents. 
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preschool age books
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What am I Feeling?
by Dr. Josh & Christi Straub #CommissionsEarned An introduction to feelings and how to manage them. 
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God Made Boys and Girls: Helping Children Understand the Gift of Gender
by Marty Machowski #CommissionsEarned Introducing gender before culture influences children. 
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God Made All of Me
by Justin S. Holcomb & Lindsey A. Holcomb #CommissionsEarned Introduces God as creator, names of body parts, keeping private parts private, and how to say “no,” even to unwanted hugs & kisses. 
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God Made Your Body
by Jim Burns #CommissionsEarned Slightly more advanced information on body parts. Also introduces the concept of eggs and sperm. 
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Elementary Age books
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How God Makes Babies (Age 4-6)
by Jim Burns #CommissionsEarned This one could be used earlier for kids who ask a lot of questions. Takes up where God Made Your Body leaves off. 
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Good Pictures Bad Pictures (Age 7-8)
by Kristen Jenson #CommissionsEarned Good Pictures Bad Pictures is a read-aloud story about a mom and dad who explain what pornography is, why it’s dangerous, and how to reject it. 
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The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality (Age 7-10)
by Luke Gilkerson #CommissionsEarned Help kids know what sex is for, not only what it is not for. 
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Changes: 7 Biblical Lessons to Make Sense of Puberty (Age 10-12)
by Luke Gilkerson #CommissionsEarned Preparing a child for body and emotional changes that come with puberty. 
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Adolescent books
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A Family Game Plan for Tackling Porn Use
by Be Broken #CommissionsEarned Interactive online course for parents and kids to do together. Addresses kids who have been caught up in pornography, but also a great resource to use with older kids to help them see why pornography can become so dangerous. 
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Relationships: 11 Lessons to Give Kids a Greater Understanding of Biblical Sexuality
by Luke Gilkerson #CommissionsEarned Explains how sexual brokenness can occur and ways to deal with temptation and questions about sexuality. 
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TALK: A Practical Approach to Cyberparenting and Open Communication
by Mandy Majors #CommissionsEarned Covers how to discuss issues such as social media, LGBTQ friends, and more. 
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Unashamed: Candid Conversations About Dating, Love, Nakedness & Faith
by Tracy Levinson #CommissionsEarned For moms and teen girls to read together. 
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Meet Me in the Middle
by Barrett & Jenifer Johnson #CommissionsEarned A book for dads and teen girls to read together. 
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Father-Son Accountability: Integrity Through Relationship
by John Fort & Lucas Fort #CommissionsEarned For dads and adolescent sons to read together. 
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Mom & Dad Books
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Rethinking Sexuality
by Dr. Juli Salttery #CommissionsEarned This book equips you to see how sexuality is rooted in the broader context of God's heart and His work for us on earth. It provides a framework from which to understand the big picture of sexual challenges and wholeness, and helps you recognize that every sexual question is ultimately a spiritual one. 
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A Celebration of Sex
by Dr. Douglas E. Resenau #CommissionsEarned A guide to enjoying God’s gift of sexual intimacy. 
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Helpful Websites
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Protect Young Eyes
This site has a lot of great information for parents who want to understand what technology is out there and how it can affect your children. |
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Parents Who Fight
Parents Who Fight is a place for you to get connected with a global movement of parents and organizations who are proactively engaged in the battle for this generation. |
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Protect Young Minds
Kids can learn to reject pornography. Start teaching them today. Protect young minds can show you how. Check out their Brain Defense videos |
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Covenant Eyes
Covenant Eyes helps you overcome porn by monitoring your screen activity and sending a report to a trusted ally who holds you accountable for your online choices. |
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Bark
Bark's affordable, award-winning dashboard proactively monitors text messages, YouTube, emails, and 30+ different social networks for potential safety concerns, so busy parents can save time and gain peace of mind. |
media reviewing & filtering
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VidAngel
This is a paid service that works along with yours streaming services (i.e. Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc.) and allows you to filter out content while streaming. |
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Kids-In-Mind
Kids-in-mind provides information about a film’s content so that you can decide, whether you should watch a movie with or without kids, or at all. |
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Plugged In
A Focus on the Family resource to help you review the content and messages in movies, tv shows, music, books, games and youtube channels. They also provide articles discussing media and the impact is has on our culture |
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Common Sense Media
A site that rates movies, TV shows, books, and more so parents can be informed while choosing entertainment for their kids. Along with their own review, they offer independent age-based ratings and reviews from other parents and children. |
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Consultation for Parents
BeBroken offers Consultation. Pure Life Alliance supports the vision and mission of BeBroken. The views and opinions shared during consultation with a BeBroken team member are their own.
John Fort
Director of Training
Director of Training
John is our Director of Training at Be Broken, overseeing our Pure Life Academy online training platform as well as our Pure Community resource center. He has many years of experience in sexual addiction recovery, both personally and professionally. John is the author of Honest Talk: A New Perspective on Talking to Your Kids about Sex.
John has two adult children and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Anna.
John has two adult children and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Anna.
