by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 20, 2021 | Parenting Teenagers
Yesterday was my daughter Rebecca’s 26th birthday, and it occurred to me how much her life and my life have differed when it comes to church. Here’s my favourite picture of her, taken this fall with her son: I was supposed to write something else...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 18, 2021 | Parenting Teenagers, Theology of Marriage and Sex
How can you make sure that the messages your kids hear in youth group about sex won’t be harmful ones? One of my big passions is helping sort through the messages about sex that we get in evangelical culture and throwing out the harmful ones and keeping the...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 4, 2020 | Parenting Teenagers
Yesterday on the podcast I shared about how “don’t be a stumbling block” is a toxic message to give to young girls about modesty. It all stemmed from a discussion on Facebook where I was presenting a scenario where a 13-year-old girl was blamed for...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 3, 2020 | Parenting Teenagers, Podcasts
I am very, very tired of the “don’t be a stumbling block” argument when it comes to modesty for girls. I know that this is a very widespread debate, and I have talked about it before in two main posts: My 40% Modesty Rule Why Don’t Be a...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 11, 2020 | Parenting Small Children, Parenting Teenagers
My girls were both far more emotionally mature on their wedding day than I was on mine. And their husbands were both more emotionally mature than Keith was, too! Keith and I were just so young, in so many ways (though my daughters were both technically younger than I...
by Katie Emmerson | Aug 21, 2020 | Parenting Teenagers
Your daughter’s first period is not the time to warn her about being sexually promiscuous. Let me repeat that: Just because your daughter can get pregnant now does not mean that you should launch into a talk about not fooling around with boys on the day that she...