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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 25 years and happily married for 20! 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 8 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.
