--- title: Jennifer Garner: Men, Women and Children, Sex Ed, Internet Porn description: Jennifer Garner, who stars in the new movie about the perils of the internet Men, Women & Children, has nothing particular against porn. She just... canonical: https://time.com/3484884/jennifer-garner-porn-sex-ed-ben-affleck/ author: Belinda Luscombe article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-09T16:22:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-01T09:01:48.273Z og:title: Jennifer Garner: Men, Women and Children, Sex Ed, Internet Porn og:description: Jennifer Garner, who stars in the new movie about the perils of the internet Men, Women & Children, has nothing particular against porn. 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She just... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc7f7b732fe798ef/69875f7e35ba6f40a8c044fb/jennifer-garner-sex-ed.png?branch=production&width=593&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 video:duration: 02:19 video:published: 2014-10-08 section: entertainment topics: parenting, room mom duties, talking to children about sex, online exposure for children, digital world and kids, discipline and rules, trial and failure in childhood genre: interview, personal reflection tones: candid, self-deprecating, thoughtful, warm, playful emotions: amusement (medium), concern (medium), affection (medium), uncertainty (low) sentiment: neutral audience: parents, parents of young children, readers interested in celebrity parenting, parents of daughters people: Jennifer Garner content_suitability: sexual content [01:04-01:40] transcript_source: publisher captions transcript_reviewed: not applicable ---  # Watch Jennifer Garner Talk About Sex... Education > Sponsored content. 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Actress and mother Jennifer Garner explains her plan for having 'The Talk' with her children when the time is right_ Description, summary, key points, chapters, key quotes, questions and transcript, where present, were produced automatically from the video or its captions and were not reviewed. ## Summary Actress Jennifer Garner talks about her parenting as a room mom and a mother of daughters, admitting she is disorganized in some ways but disciplined in others. She describes her wish to teach her children about sex as something joyful and connected to love, worried that online content could show them something unconnected to that view. She says she has not worked out how she will manage her children's entry into the digital world, but prefers they try and fail while under her roof. ## Key points - Garner describes herself as disciplined when needed but also a total flake, and admits she forgot to write down what was needed for a kindergarten coffee she was in charge of. (00:02) - Garner says she has often tried hard as a parent, only to realise she was making things harder for her child or was the problem itself. (00:35) - Garner says she likes rules and will watch how strict other moms are, then try to be one notch more strict. (00:58) - Garner's main worry about online sexual content is that her daughters could run across it accidentally and see something disconnected from how she wants them to view sex. (01:10) - Garner wants her children to see sex as something joyful, a gift and a celebration of love and their bodies. (01:29) - Garner says she has nothing figured out yet about how she will manage her children's entry into the digital world. (01:43) - Garner says she would rather her children try and fail at things under her roof and with her available at bedtime than be told they cannot do anything until adulthood. (02:00) ## Chapters - [00:00 to 00:35] Being a disorganized room mom. Garner describes being disciplined yet a flake, using her kindergarten coffee duties as an example. - [00:35 to 00:58] Trying hard and getting it wrong. Garner reflects on parenting efforts that backfired and on her mother's monitoring of her own online life. - [00:58 to 01:10] Preferring rules and strictness. Garner explains she likes rules and tends to be a notch stricter than other moms. - [01:10 to 01:43] Teaching daughters about sex. Garner discusses her hopes for how her daughters view sex and her concern about accidental exposure online. - [01:43 to 02:19] Managing kids' digital entry. Garner admits she has no settled plan for children's digital access and favours supervised trial and error. ## Key quotes - [00:02] Jennifer Garner: "I'm very disciplined when I need to be. But I'm also a total flake." - [01:10] Jennifer Garner: "The scary thing to me is that, that what's available to them online, even if that they could run across accidentally" - [01:29] Jennifer Garner: "I want them to see sex as a, something joyful, as a gift, as a celebration of love and of their bodies" - [01:43] Jennifer Garner: "I have nothing figured out yet about how I will manage my children's, entry into the digital world." - [02:00] Jennifer Garner: "I'd rather them try and fail at things while they're under my. Roof and with me there to chat with at bedtime" ## Questions this video answers - How does Garner describe her own organisational habits as a parent? [00:02] - Has Garner found that her parenting efforts sometimes made things harder for her child? [00:35] - What is Garner's main concern about her daughters and sex-related content online? [01:10] - How does Garner want her children to view sex? [01:29] - Why does Garner prefer letting her children try and fail while she is present? [02:00] ## Content suitability - sexual content [01:04-01:40]: Discusses teaching children about sex and sexual content available online, without explicit description. by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/) and [Salima Koroma](https://time.com/author/salima-koroma/) Oct 9, 2014 4:22 PM UTC Actress and mother Jennifer Garner explains her plan for having 'The Talk' with her children when the time is right by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/) and [Salima Koroma](https://time.com/author/salima-koroma/) Oct 9, 2014 4:22 PM UTC Jennifer Garner, who stars in the new movie about the perils of the internet _Men, Women & Children_, has nothing particular against porn. She just doesn’t want her three kids to see it online before she’s had a chance to talk to them about sex. “I really hope my kids don’t run across stuff online that could appear violent to them,” she said in an interview with TIME. Garner, who admits she takes a pretty disciplined approach to bringing up Violet, 9, Seraphina, 5 and Sam, 2, says she’s done a lot of thinking about how to teach her kids, especially her daughters about sex: she’s attended talks, she’s read books and she’s talked to experts, but says she’s still no quite sure what’s the right approach. Her own mother and father, whom she calls “the best parents in the world,” have still never talked to her about it. “I’m waiting for The Talk, mom, dad,” she jokes in the interview, which TIME subscribers can read [here](http://time.com/3483892/10-questions-with-jennifer-garner/). Of her kids, Garner says, “I want them to see sex as something joyful, as a gift, as a celebration of love and of their bodies. And I’ve never thought about that before, but it makes me feel really cool and hippie-ish to even think of it that way.” Elsewhere in the interview Garner says she’s not nearly as connected online as her husband, Ben Affleck, and although she doesn’t want her kids to enter the digital world just yet, he may have other ideas. “It’s definitely a team sport, parenting,” she says. While Garner says she quickly closes pages that have any mention of her or her family on them, she does sometimes take online courses. She was an active participant in a course run by New York _Times_ writer Nick Kristof when his and his wife Sheryl WuDunn’s book _Half the Sky_ came out. Anonymously, of course. Because on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a movie star. ## Transcript [00:02] [ MUSIC ] I'm very disciplined when I need to be. But I'm [00:05] also a total flake. A room mom in kindergarten this year. [00:10] And I'm in charge of this kindergarten coffee next week [00:12] and I forgot to write down what everyone was supposed to [00:16] bring. And so I was supposed to send out the e- mail saying [00:19] okay this is what was decided da da da you bring this. I [00:22] have bagels. You bring this [ UNKNOWN ]. And I just forgot [00:25] to write it down, and I just said to them, this is why I'm a [00:28] better worker bee than I am being in charge. But, I'm a total [00:31] flake. I cannot tell you how many days i [00:35] think that i've tried my hardest, as a parent, and really gone [00:38] out of my way and gone above and beyond and done [00:40] everything i possibly think I can do to help my child through. [00:43] X, Y, or Z, only to realise that I was making [00:47] it harder for them or was in the way or was the problem [00:50] itself. My mom, she checks my Facebook, my emails, my [00:54] texts. She must have just deleted it before I even saw it. I [00:58] know that I like rules. I'll watch how strict the other moms [01:01] are and I'll probably try to be one notch more strict. [01:04] [ LAUGH ] I've given a lot of thought to how [01:08] you deal with teaching your kids, especially your [01:10] daughters, about sex. The scary thing to me is that, [01:16] that what's available to them online, even if that they could [01:20] run across accidentally ,. Could show them something [01:24] that is so not connected to the way I want them to [01:29] see sex. I want them to see sex as a, something joyful, as a [01:33] gift, as a celebration of love and of [01:37] their bodies, and, I've never thought about that before but it [01:40] makes me feel really cool and hippie- ish to even [ MUSIC ] [01:43] Think of it that way. I have nothing figured out yet [01:47] about how I will manage my children's, entry [01:52] into the digital world. [01:56] I just know that it's not yet. I know that I'd rather [02:00] them try and fail at things while they're under my. 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