The Great Shalom Podcast : Overcoming Learning Disabilities

The Great Shalom Podcast :  Overcoming Learning Disabilities


Help Your Children Avoid Porn, Sex Abuse and Sex Trafficking

February 04, 2021

Every parent today has to help their children avoid porn, sex abuse and sex trafficking. Dani Johnson gave us great ideas. We must realize that children with LD often are targets and subject to sex abuse.

Dani Johnson, of multi-level marketing fame, is also a mother, and as such concerned with the well-being of children. She very graciously gave us an interview back in 2009 on her book *Grooming the Next Generation for Success.* Then, upon discovering her campaign, we also had her share with us her campaign against porn. She knew because she was involved in marketing that men were sitting in board rooms figuring out how they could get children addicted to porn -- for profit. As a trainer of sales and business people she knew how to help people prepare for what they would face. As a mother, she helped her boys prepare for what they would face. I thought it was brilliant how she would ask her moppet sons what they would do when they walked past Victoria Secrets store in the mall or what they would do while they were waiting in the line at the grocery store.

This is certainly related to learning and disability issues. First, we know that children with disabilities and with "learning disabilities" get picked on more than others. Because they often miss social cues, they seem to have a target on their back. Secondly, there is some research that suggests that children who can not compete in school then try to compete in other ways. The boys tend to get into legal trouble because of this. There is a correlation between LD and JD or in other words, boys with a diagnosis of "learning disability" often also get labeled "Juvenile Delinquent." Prisons are filled with people who should have been helped academically. Girls, on the other hand, may compete on beauty and more feminine endeavors. This may make them more at risk for sexual abuse.

Dani Johnson clearly contributed to all of us at that time. I can only imagine what she must think now. Who could have ever imagined the kind of scandal that we have seen in child sex-trafficking? We are so grateful for recent politicians who permitted some brave law enforcement people to go after these criminals. What is so frightening is how many were highly placed in society -- how unlikely it would have been that these children would ever have been freed.

THOUGHTS ON AVOIDING BEING KIDNAPPED
Dani Johnson in 2009 was talking to us about helping children avoid porn. Now everyone knows more about sex trafficking. We are so grateful for those who led in having ministries to victims and those who led in law enforcement to rescue these children. We are bewildered why officials would want to put a stop to this.

As mothers, let us consider how to be sure our children are not kidnapped. Firstly, keep your children very close to you. Even 40 years ago it did happen that babies were snatched from mothers' arms. Given that I had a blonde baby girl, I normally carried her in a baby carrier, on my front, especially when I went downtown without my husband. 2) Know where your children are at all times and make sure that they have a habit of not only telling you where they are but also coming back when called and at agreed upon times. it might seem to some people that you are a controlling mom. No, this is basic responsibility needed for adulthood and it is basic safety practice as soon as your child is old enough to leave your presence. Surely, at some point you want them to do that. Go to the store? Go to play at the playground in your apartment complex. As soon as they can do that,