The Glass Between Us: Empowering Youth to Combat Digital Exploitation - A Value-Based Approach to Screen-Driven Challenges

“We aren’t in Kansas anymore! Navigating the digital world is more complicated than ever. With all of its dangers and detours, we are called to steward that dimension of our lives. Lisa and Jason help the next generation of parents and children do just that.”

-Mark Batterson, New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Circle Maker

Youth are born into a pixelated reality, where sexting, swiping, pornification, and ghosting are the social norms. Adults who advocate for the well-being of teens face a trillion-dollar tech industry whose mission is to capture and monetize attention. In light of sophisticated social media algorithms, reality transcending gaming platforms, and the allure of orgasm on demand, guiding teenagers’ online interactions with rules and content filters alone has left parents and professionals feeling like a David facing off with Goliath. 

The Glass Between Us is a value-based guide for screen-driven challenges, filled with stories, interviews, practical tips, conversation starters and evidence-driven solutions to tackle the complexities of our teens’ digital lives:

• How can teens develop online habits that promote mental health?
• Is porn consumption inevitable or can teens be empowered to reject it?
• How can we raise teens to value people over pixels?
• What does it look like to expose and stand against online exploitation?
• How can we set healthy boundaries around tech?
• How can we become digital mentors in a screen driven world? 

This book presents a new framework that empowers teens to become digital pioneers charting new courses that lead them away from the exploitive side of the web and closer to the vision and purpose they desire for their lives. You will learn to inspire teens to place their core values at the forefront of their digital interactions, so choices online resemble who they are, rather than how they are told to behave. 

ENDORSEMENTS

“The Glass Between Us (…) will surely equip parents and professionals to empower teens to make healthy choices online that support both their short and long-term goals."

- Donna Rice Hughes, Internet Safety Expert, Author, Speaker and President of Enough Is Enough

“Everyone in America should read The Glass Between Us. It explains in plain language the extraordinary challenges the next generation faces (…). Lisa and Jason Frost confront these challenges head on.”

- Warren Binford, Professor & Director, Clinical Law Program, Willamette  University, TEDx Speaker

"Jason and Lisa Frost have identified the segment of our population most vulnerable to the addictive and transformational power of the internet...our children (…) I highly recommend The Glass Between Us.”

- Bill Johnson, U.S. Congressman, Ohio

“This is an incredibly important and timely book.”

- Adam Smith, U.S. Congressman, Washington

“This must-read is for every parent seeking to positively connect with their teen and instill digital and relational values to last a lifetime.”

- Liz Walker, International Authority on Porn Harms, Education and Advocacy

“Lisa and Jason Frost have offered a profound gift to parents, adolescents, teachers, and mentors. As a mother, sex educator, and mindfulness-based sex therapist, I am grateful for this important contribution and resource.”

- Gretchen Blycker, Mental Health Counselor, Instructor, University of Rhode Island

"Impassioned and well informed, Team Frost gently but firmly awakens parents to the realities of life with screens, not shying away from the Web's underbelly."

- Gary Wilson, Author of Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction