How Porn Use Before Marriage Affects Marriage Now

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 3, 2019 | Parenting Teenagers, Pornography

If a guy (or a teenage girl) has grown up using porn, how is that going to affect marriage? I’m going to take a bit of a time-out from Christmas posts today to talk about something that’s come up lately that I think is important. If you’ve been...

Our Soul Ties Series: Do You Have Unhealthy Emotional Bonds with Your Kids?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 27, 2019 | Family, Parenting Small Children, Parenting Teenagers

Are you becoming codependent with your children? Do you have unhealthy emotional bonds with your parents? This month we’ve been talking about the concept of “soul ties”, which was preached a lot in Christian circles in the 1980s and 1990s, but which...

Are You Inadvertently Raising Your Sons to Have Problems with Lust?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 25, 2019 | Parenting Teenagers

Every time, without fail, when I try to talk about men’s struggles with lust the conversation turns to how women, and especially teenage girls, dress. Basically it goes something like this: Well, of course men shouldn’t lust, but girls should also watch...

Why We Need to Rethink Automatic Bible College & 22-Year-Old Youth Pastors

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 8, 2019 | Faith, Parenting Teenagers

What if the way churches are hiring youth pastors is hurting our youth and hurting our youth pastors? This is going to be a long one. My girls and I have been talking about this for years, as they have watched friends go the Bible college/youth pastor route, and we...

Which Internet Filter Should You Use to Protect Your Kids from Porn? Qostodio vs. Covenant Eyes

by Joanna Sawatsky | Oct 25, 2019 | Parenting Small Children, Parenting Teenagers, Pornography

Porn is not harmless. Social media can be a minefield. And the internet can suck productive time away and cause us to miss out on important parts of our lives. That’s why I believe parents have to get a handle on their kids’ internet usage, and why I...

4 Easy Habits to Become a “Porn Free” Home

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 17, 2019 | Parenting Small Children, Parenting Teenagers, Pornography

Can you have a porn-free home? I wish I could say, “absolutely!”, but I can’t. I don’t even like the title of this post, because it promises something I can’t deliver. I was thinking of “Porn Safe”, but that makes it...

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