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Barb Winters

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Although Barb’s been writing for over a decade, her passion for talking about online dangers was ignited after she and her husband learned their son was watching pornography. Because of their experience, she now writes to encourage and support parents, grandparents, educators, and leaders in this digital age.

Barb’s award-winning debut book, Sexpectations: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Healthy Relationships, addresses the heavy loads of anxiety, worry, and depression young people experience because of cultural norms, social media, pornography, and other online information. Sexpectations offers practical advice for presenting healthier options to tweens, teens, and young adults.

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As a Cybersecurity Instructor, Research Scientist, and Teacher, Barb Fox knows about technology and how to explain safety in a tech world to parents and students. I love, love the analogy she presents in order for us to understand cyber hygiene.

My children loved searching for treasures. I humored them as they scoured parking lots for coins or waded in creeks to find rusty bicycle wheels. But w

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“The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.' A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate---humble obedience---but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

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