She instills hope and confidence and leaves her audiences with pragmatic advice they can act on immediately to defend young minds.
Kristen is a positive voice for raising empowered, resilient, screen-smart kids who know how to reject pornography. She is also the executive producer of the Brain Defense: Digital Safety curriculum and the owner and CEO of Glen Cove Press, LLC.
Jenson is the founder of Defend Young Minds (formerly Protect Young Minds) and #1 best-selling author of the Good Pictures Bad Pictures series of read-aloud books which have translations in 10 languages. Every child deserves to be empowered against the dangers of pornography Let them know that pornographic material is on YouTube, but if they ever are curious about sex or pornography, they will get better answers from you instead of looking for that kind of info on YouTube. Teach kids early (as soon as they are old enough to play Minecraft) how to recognize and reject pornography. Kids love to look on YouTube for Minecraft training, but YouTube contains pornography.
Guess what? Up came a list including inappropriate “sex mod” videos on YouTube! But I didn’t see anything inappropriate when I searched for “Minecraft tips and tricks.” My three recommendations As a test, I set my YouTube account to “restricted” (click here for instructions) and typed in “Minecraft sex mods”. This is probably where they can be exposed to the most inappropriate material.
Kids like to watch YouTube videos to get tips and tricks for playing Minecraft. This is how my kids play it and they haven’t run out of fun things to do or build. Even without mods, Minecraft can be loads of fun. That’s why the Minemum recommends purchasing a realm as a safer method of playing Minecraft. For more information from Snopes on Minecraft sex mods, read this. They are available, but to encounter a sex mod, your child has to play on a server where someone has installed a sex mod. According to the Minemum, mods “can cause the game to crash, delete worlds or data, corrupt game files or contain viruses.” They are not monitored by Majong or age-rated and so may contain pornographic material. However, the Minemum warns parents that mods come with their own dangers. They can let you alter the game in fun ways, like making the grass purple instead of green, introducing dinosaurs to your world or letting you create huge explosions.
Mods are little bits of code made and shared by players (not Mojang, the game’s maker).
Regarding the downside of invitations to play on others’ realms, Bec advises parents to “monitor the invites that your kids are getting, and teach them not to accept invitations from people they don't know.”Ģ020 Update: The website does not appear to be operating anymore, but the information in this article is still great info! What are mods? The downsides are that it costs money, anyone can invite your child to play on their realm and you can't use mods.” “In a nutshell, the upside is that you can open your own realm to selected players only, it's a cheap way to run a multiplayer server and there are some fun ready-made mini games and maps that you can use. I reached out via email to Bec Oakley, founder of, for some clarification.
Your child can join a multi-player game for a one time fee to purchase the game (to play on a PC or Mac, game console or mobile devices) OR you can purchase your own “realm” and invite only trusted friends and family to join you. There are a few ways kids can play Minecraft and that makes a big difference when it comes to encountering “sex mods” or predators. And they seem to have lots of fun as well! What are the different ways kids can play Minecraft? survivor), they’ll have to fight off monsters at the same time! It can be argued that Minecraft is educational-kids develop skills in planning, spatial reasoning, and even math. And depending on the mode they’re playing in (creative vs. For example, each player can create farms and grow crops, herd sheep and build castles. Minecraft is called a “sandbox” game because players can be in the same “realm” or server but doing their own thing.