Pornography is founded on the delusion that what is portrayed is real, but it is a base and degrading imposter of love and true human intimacy

With pornography, the effect is gradual but with over time and with continued exposure, there are consequences.

Pornography may appear beautiful and alluring almost irresistible, but pornography is fiction.

One begins to isolate oneself from others, finding opportunities to be alone and rationalizing that it’s not a big deal at all, and the cycle starts again. It is a perceived exercise of freedom that can ultimately enslave.

Pornography is worse than filthy polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food but the brain won’t vomit filth back.

These sacred and special feelings are meant to be used in the ongoing physical relationship between husband and wife.

The decision is ultimately yours. It’s your choice, no one can make it for you.

We live at a time when technology can be used to replicate reality, to augment reality, and to create virtual reality.

Sadly, some young men and women in the church today ignore things as they really are. A young man or woman may waste countless hours, postpone or forfeit vocational or academic achievement, and ultimately sacrifice cherished, human relationships because of digital distractions, diversions, and detours that have no lasting value.

To be encircled about eternally in the arms of His love will be a real and not a virtual experience.

Turning ourselves to the Lord, we get the opportunity, personally, to have the Atonement work its miracle in our lives.

The brain is a vast electrical network, truly a miracle of creation. Billions and billions of interconnecting, intercommunicating neurons enabling us to do, think, feel, to dream.

How those neurons connect with one another particularly in the early years is largely determined by our experience. In this information age in which we live, media has become one of the greatest contributors to children’s experience.

Emotion is key, because it's what drives behavior. Emotion plays some very key roles in the workings of the mind. It grabs our attention.

Although we continue to develop neural networks throughout our lives, the process peaks before the age of seven.

One of the most powerful influences affecting the development of children's brains today is media.

One of the most important things for us to acknowledge about media is that it is powerful. Another is that how it is used is within our control. Knowing what we do about brain development, we might ask ourselves not only which connections are being formed as our children sit face to face with the television or computer screen, but which connections are not.

V especially is a natural teacher because of the main way kids learn: by copying what they see and hear.

Not only is this natural teacher everywhere, it occupies the biggest chunk of time in the waking life of an American child.

The war we are waging to defend our homes. Our social fabric has been attacked around the edges, and now it is moving to the center—our homes!

We need to make our homes a place of refuge from the storm. . . . Even if the smallest openings are left unattended, negative influences can penetrate the very walls of our homes.

Our modern advances have brought us the Internet; TV; DVDs; the erosion of marriage through divorce, cohabitation, same-sex marriage, and abortion; the difficulty of holding family mealtimes; the clothing we wear; our cultural disdain for household work; and changing roles for mothers and fathers.

Some ideologies would have women think that home duties limit their full potential, and women and men are tempted to disregard the important, everyday aspects of homelife

Apply this idea of sacred to everyday activities in your home such as mealtime, prayer, scripture study, music, caring for your home and yard, recreation, laundry, and everything else that takes place in and around your home.

Everyday events in our home can seem so simple that we overlook the importance of them.

Evidence suggests that family meals with parents present contribute to better nutritive intake, fewer psychological problems, and less risky or self-destructive behaviors.

We often think about family duties in terms of family home evening, prayer, and scripture reading, but we should also remember daily activities of the home like feeding or clothing ourselves and recognize their power to help us practice obedience, service, love, and cooperation.

Step 1: Admit that you, of yourself, are powerless to overcome your addictions and that your life has
become unmanageable.

Step 2: Come to believe that the power of God can restore you to complete spiritual health.

Step 3: Decide to turn your will and your life over to the care of God the Eternal Father and His Son,
Jesus Christ.

Step 4: Make a searching and fearless written moral inventory of yourself.

Step 5: Admit to yourself, to your Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, to proper priesthood
authority, and to another person the exact nature of your wrongs.

Step 6: Become entirely ready to have God remove all your character weaknesses.

Step 7: Humbly ask Heavenly Father to remove your shortcomings.

Step 8: Make a written list of all persons you have harmed and become willing to make
restitution to them.

Step 9: Wherever possible, make direct restitution to all persons you have harmed.

Step 10: Continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong promptly admit it.

Step 11: Seek through prayer and meditation to know the Lord’s will and to have the power
to carry it out.

Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, share this message
with others and practice these principles in all you do.

literacy - being able to communicate through reading and writing

Caldecott Medal - award given yearly for the most distinguished picture book for children

Newbery Medal - award given yearly for the most distinguishedcontribution to American literature for children

Popular music is an example of how the tastes and preferences of young people have fueled the billion-dollar music industry

For most young people, music use is driven primarily by the motivation to control mood and enhance emotional states

Music’s ability to com­municate emotion and influence mood has been widely noted. Even preschoolers and infants as young as 8 months can reliably discriminate “happy” and “sad” music.

Motivation, experience, knowledge, and self-concept are factors in the interpretation of the lyrics

contagion - the phenomenon in which an individual exposed to a suggestion will act on it

Mental images once formed by rhythm, beat, and perceived lyrics are now created by special effects on video.

In the 20th century, “each new media technology brought with it great promise for social and educational benefits, and great concern for children’s exposure to inappropriate and harmful content”.

Some of the problems with Internet technology, besides appropriateness of content on certain websites: piracy issues over illegal transfer of copyrighted material, privacy issues regarding the ability to track online usage patterns and gain access to personal data,, the capacity to hack into unauthorized information, viruses and worms that can destroy data on computers, and unsolicited junk mail, or “spam.

Some risks or problems of children surfing the web include:
accessing areas that are inappropriate or overwhelming, being exposed to online information that promotes hate, violence, and pornography, being misled and bombarded with intense advertising, and being invited to register for prizes or to join a club where they are providing per­sonal or household information to an unknown source.