One of the more difficult aspects of parenting: the birds and the bees. You know you can avoid talking about it, but they'll figure it out anyway-and soon. Don't you want a chance to give your own kids your own point of view? Let's talk about pornography. The typical age of a child's first exposure to pornography is 11. The largest market for internet porn is boys ages 12 to 18. And all 3 of my oldest boys have stumbled across porn on the 'Net already. What's a parent to do, outside of putting them in a plastic bubble?
Media puts sex in front of our faces daily- images that are contrary to the mores of a stable society and to Bible standards. Mind you, any parent who thinks it's worse today than when we were kids hasn't watched an 80s flick lately. This tells me that our voices are being heard, because movies do seem cleaner to me now than the movies I watched as a teen. But what we didn't have in the 80s was the ability to take nude photos of ourselves and broadcast them worldwide in 30 seconds! You know teens are doing this, right? It's called SEXTING and it's ruining kids' lives already. A girl has committed suicide over her own lapse of judgment, and kids are being charged with possession of child pornography.
What do you do to protect your kids from porn? What do you do to teach them how to avoid it-- because chances are, they WILL be exposed to it. What will you do to prepare your child for the temptation to follow the crowd with sexting? How do you handle this one, as a parent? I have my ideas, but I want to hear yours-- Leave your comments!
P. S. a message to an anonymous friend, which appeared in a timely manner at The Resurgence... please read and contact me to talk about it more. Feel free to use Comments and post anonymously.
5 comments:
i agree. it is a heart issue.
It is harder than teaching about stealing, or smoking because so many 'upright' people don't see pornography as an evil.
Keep the discussion coming.
Autumn
Haven't heard of sexting before...thank you for the info. Praise God we have the Holy Spirit to guide us through this whole parenting thing...can you imagine trying to do it without Him???
I'm Jeanine-Juan's wife.....
We think that every kid has a right to a cell phone and a right to use the internet when they want to and a right to unlimited email use. Not at my house. You get a cell phone when you drive a car, pay for texting, which I read and we have a family email account. I read it all, and no surfing-read a book instead. The computer is in full view of everyone. No, I'm not naive enough to think they won't see it, but we talk about averting your eyes when you see billboards, magazines, and point out immodesty often. Our kids LOVE us because of the time we pour into our relationships w/them, so who cares if they are mad because they can't surf the net unless I'm there and don't have a cell phone. Live counter-culture!!
Popping in to say, "Yes! I use Sonlight!" I pick and choose and add things in as needed, but the "base" of what we do is Sonlight. Good stuff!
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