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When Parents Enable Adult Children To Be Moochers

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Jul 27, 2022 | Doing Life Together, Parenting Teenagers

Adult children can seriously take advantage of their parents–and seriously be moochers. Sheila here! A few weeks ago I started rerunning an important series I wrote six years ago about handling family dynamics as parents age and require care. We’re...

On Modesty: We Shouldn’t Sacrifice Teen Girls’ Well-Being for Adult Men’s Comfort

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 13, 2022 | Parenting Teenagers

A basic principle in the Old Testament is actually quite a simple one: People of God don’t sacrifice children. Read through the prophets, and you’ll hear the judgment against nations that sacrifice their kids to Molech, or make children “walk through...

When Going to Church Leads to Worse Outcomes for Teen Girls

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 28, 2022 | Parenting Teenagers, Theology of Marriage and Sex

On almost every measure, church attendance is good for you. Researchers have consistently found that religiosity is positively correlated with better mental health, better health overall, better relationships, and even longevity. BUT–and there’s a very big...

Echoes of Menstruation: Spoken Word Poetry

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 25, 2022 | Parenting Teenagers

Let’s talk about the echoes of menstruation. Yesterday on the podcast, we were discussing how Focus on the Family’s PluggedIn movie review of Turning Red put references to preteen girls’ periods under “sexual content”, and warned that the...

PODCAST: Echoes of Menstruation? Really, Focus on the Family?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 24, 2022 | Parenting Teenagers, Podcasts

So apparently preteen girls’ cramps and pads are sexual, according to Focus on the Family. We have a little bit of a detour today because something blew up last week that I just had to address! Rebecca noticed that in Focus on the Family’s PluggedIn movie...

What Does Treating Women with Respect Look Like?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 21, 2022 | Parenting Teenagers

Can we stop objectifying women and treat us like whole people, made in the image of God? We’ve been talking about putting the “Christ” back in Christian marriage this month, and part of that is by treating women as the Imago Dei (made in the image of...

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About Sheila

Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.