Internet and Media Safety for Families Lesson 2 The Sacred Roles of Fathers and Mothers 1

Internet and Media Safety for Families Lesson 1 Review Children are an Heritage of the Lord  Read: Precious Children, a Gift from God  Make a commitment to spend individual time with each of your children  Take time to talk about your children with your spouse 2

Internet and Media Safety for Families Internet and Media Safety for Families 7-Lesson Sunday School Class 1. Children are an Heritage of the Lord 2. The Sacred Roles of Fathers and Mothers 3. Internet and Media Safety for Families 4. Teach your Children about Media Choices 5. Teach your Children to prevent/avoid Pornography 6. Teach Your Children about inappropriate Internet/Media Exposures 7. Make Emergency Response Plans 3

Internet and Media Safety for Families Lesson Outline  Lesson Objectives  Fathers and mothers should work together  Fathers are to preside in love and righteousness  Fathers are to provide for their families  Mothers participate in God’s work  Mothers nurture their children  Fathers and mothers are to help one another  Suggested Actions 4

Internet and Media Safety for Families Lesson Objectives  Understand how fathers and mothers fulfill their respective sacred roles  Understand how fathers and mothers can help one another as equal partners 5

Internet and Media Safety for Families Social Media has Changed the World 6

Internet and Media Safety for Families Fathers and mothers should work together to provide each of their children with a shield of faith 7

Internet and Media Safety for Families Stand Strong in Holy Places By Elder Robert D. Hales 8

Internet and Media Safety for Families President Boyd K. Packer Our Father’s plan requires that the shield of faith be made and fitted in the family. The plan designed by the Father contemplates that husband and wife fit each child individually with a shield of faith. It takes the steady strength of a father to hammer out the metal of it and the tender hands of a mother to polish and fit it on. In the Church we can teach about the materials from which a shield of faith is made: reverence, courage, chastity, repentance, forgiveness, compassion. 9

Internet and Media Safety for Families A Parent's Guide to Online Safety - Social Networking 10

Internet and Media Safety for Families Fathers are to preside in love and righteousness 11

Internet and Media Safety for Families Family Game Night 12

Internet and Media Safety for Families The Family A Proclamation to the World 13 Discuss Handout

Internet and Media Safety for Families President Ezra Taft Benson 1. Give father’s blessings to your children, baptize and confirm your children, ordain your sons to the priesthood 2. Personally direct family prayers, scripture reading, family home evenings 3. Attend Church meetings together as a family 4. Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons’ outings 5. Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings 6. Have regular one-on-one visits with your children 7. Teach your children to work, and show them the value of working 8. Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes 9. Regularly attend the temple with your wife 10. Have your children see your joy and satisfaction in Church service 14

Internet and Media Safety for Families Fathers are to provide their families with the necessities of life and protection 15

Internet and Media Safety for Families Necessities of Life and Protection  What are some temporal necessities of life?  What are some spiritual necessities of life?  How can a wife and children support the efforts of their husband and father?  What do families need to be protected from? 16

Internet and Media Safety for Families Cyberbullying  Cyberbullying Warning Signs  Cyberbullying Prevention: What You Can Do 17 Discuss Handouts

Internet and Media Safety for Families Mothers participate in God’s work 18

Internet and Media Safety for Families Elder Jeffrey R. Holland One young mother wrote to me recently that her anxiety tended to come on three fronts. But one thing, she said, keeps her going: ‘Through the thick and the thin of this, and through the occasional tears of it all, I know deep down inside I am doing God’s work. I know that in my motherhood I am in an eternal partnership with Him. ‘It is this realization,’ she says, ‘that I try to recall on those inevitably difficult days when all of this can be a bit overwhelming. ‘It gives me hope. If I can be right before my Father in Heaven, perhaps His guidance to our children can be unimpeded. Maybe then it can be His work and His glory in a very literal sense’” 19

Internet and Media Safety for Families Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children 20

Internet and Media Safety for Families Stay-at-Home Moms 21 Thus the ankle monitoring bracelet. I have a stay-at-home mom.

Internet and Media Safety for Families President Ezra Taft Benson 1.Be at the crossroads 2. Be a real friend 3.Read to your children 4.Pray with your children. 5.Have weekly home evenings 6.Be together at mealtimes 7.Read scriptures daily 8.Do things as a family 9.Teach your children 10.Truly love your children 22

Internet and Media Safety for Families Fathers and mothers are to help one another as equal partners 23

Internet and Media Safety for Families Managing Parental Conflict 24

Internet and Media Safety for Families Home Inventory  Build awareness of electronic devices  Build awareness of website accounts  Manage/control access  Prepare for accident/disaster 25

Internet and Media Safety for Families Home Inventory Workbook  Worksheets: – Household – Electronics – Web Accounts – Safe Deposit  Benefits: – Guard against identity theft – Manage your online presence – Recover from an accident or disaster more easily – Avoid frustrating password recovery process – Monitor what your children are up to 26 You’ll receive the Excel workbook via

Internet and Media Safety for Families Conclusions  Fathers and mothers have respective roles in rearing children  Fathers and mothers should: – work together – help one another  Fathers and mothers can protect their families from Internet and media risks 27

Internet and Media Safety for Families Suggested Actions  Write a letter to your father or your mother  With your spouse, review President Ezra Taft Benson’s 10 suggestions for fathers and mothers  Discuss ways you can work together and support one another in these parenting responsibilities  Assess if the signs of cyberbullying are evident among your children  Complete Home Inventory Worksheet 28

Internet and Media Safety for Families Discussion 29

Internet and Media Safety for Families Bibliography - 1  A Parent's Guide to Social Networking Sites - McAfee – CA/PDF/SocialNetworkinge-guide.pdf CA/PDF/SocialNetworkinge-guide.pdf  BBC – WebWise Safety and Privacy –  Cyberbullying Prevention: What You Can Do – ent ent  Cyberbullying Warning Signs –

Internet and Media Safety for Families Bibliography - 2  Fathers.com –  FBI - A Parent’s Guide to Internet Safety –  Internet addiction –  Stopbullying.gov –  Teaching Chastity and Virtue – By Matthew O. Richardson, Second Counselor in the Sunday School General Presidency – virtue?lang=eng&query=internet virtue?lang=eng&query=internet 31

Internet and Media Safety for Families Standards: Sexual Purity and Modesty - True Confidence 32

Internet and Media Safety for Families Chastity: what are the limits? 33