HAGELIN: Porn doesn’t take a summer holiday

Supervise. Keep the computer in a public place where others easily see the screen. Even if you’re home with your children during the summer months, make sure parents are home when your children visit friends. Preteens and teens rattling around an empty house with only movies, video games or computer chats for company will find trouble all too easily.

Give good example. Don’t read the trashy, semipornographic novels that pass for beach reading. Select wholesome movies and TV shows — even for yourselves.

Perhaps most important, cultivate family time. The more time you spend together as a family, the better your chances of honest, open relationships with your children. And though every relationship is a work in progress, you and your spouse give invaluable witness to healthy sexuality in the context of marriage.

• Rebecca Hagelin can be reached at rebecca@howtosaveyourfamily.com.