Protecting Your Kids From Predators Online & Locally Through Teaching Consent + How Trafficking Ends With What We Do at Home: With Expert Rosalia Rivera: Episode 308
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We know this can be a hard conversation, but it's critical in order to protect our children from the very real threats and predators. You might think that trafficking is something that is distant or would not affect your area or town. But as you'll learn from today's guest, Rosalia Rivera, the abuse and trafficking of children occurs mostly in plain sight, in areas near and around you.
But this episode is not to put you in fear; in fact, it's to empower you to have specific ACTIONS to take, whether your kids are 2 or already up to teens.
You will hear:
-
The difference between human trafficking and sexual abuse of children
-
What it means to teach "consent" to children, and conversations to have from parent to child
-
What age you can start having these conversations about body autonomy and consent
-
3 specific ways to protect children from online predators or exploitation
-
3 specific ways to protect children from local threats, even that can occur in their clubs, sports activities, and sleepovers with neighbors
-
Conversations to start with your local community, their schools, and daycares,
-
And so much more. All of it is sobering and somewhat shocking that we have to think about this, but we DO
Dive into her helpful resources here on her website and instagram!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. My name is Jocelyn Freeman and I'm honored to have |
| 0:06.4 | the guest today, Rosalia Rivera. She's an expert in teaching parents how to talk to our kids about |
| 0:12.6 | consent, body boundaries and protecting them from both online and local predators that can exist |
| 0:20.0 | in plain sight. You'll also hear how human trafficking, |
| 0:24.8 | both ending it and preventing it for our community, starts at home. And it starts with that |
| 0:30.4 | relationship and keeping communication strong between parent and child. She's going to give you |
| 0:35.0 | some very specific, tactical things to be focused on |
| 0:38.3 | with your kids, whether they are two years old, 12 years old, 16 years old. You're going to learn a lot |
| 0:43.3 | from her today, and I encourage you to go to her website, which will be linked in the show notes. |
| 0:47.4 | So you can actually dive into her resources, where she gives you actionable ways to talk about |
| 0:52.9 | these things with your kids in an age |
| 0:54.8 | appropriate way and even conversations to start with your daycare, their school, clubs that |
| 1:01.1 | they're a part of, and your friends so that you're all aware, educated, and in action. |
| 1:06.3 | And I know that this is not a fun topic at all. As parents, it's even horrifying to think about, |
| 1:12.2 | but we have to. We have to become educated and not just educated, but in action. That's how we make a |
| 1:19.5 | difference. That is how we prevent this, not only for our children, but our community, our country, |
| 1:25.5 | and the world. This is something I'm very passionate about and behind |
| 1:29.0 | the scenes have been educating myself, getting involved locally with organizations. And I encourage |
| 1:34.6 | you to really dive in to protect your children and protect your community. So let's dive into this |
| 1:40.1 | great interview. Well, Rosalia, thank you so much for taking the time to be here today. |
| 1:47.1 | I'm so happy you invited me. Thanks for having me. Well, I know this for a lot of people is a challenging |
| 1:52.0 | topic to think about. We want to talk about the fun stuff in parenting. And this is critical |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.