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...
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...
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 Rebecca Lindenbach | May 11, 2017 | Family, Parenting Teenagers
What do you do when you find out your preteen thinks she’s a lesbian? It’s Rebecca here today, since Mom’s away in Ireland for her 25th anniversary trip. So, since I just wrote a book about Why I Didn’t Rebel, she thought I’d be a good...