[LiteKeeper]

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[myprecious]

If we engage in watching raunchy videos, use foul language or cave-in to the cultural pressures on us as adults, how can we expect them as children, to not give-in to pressure?

How about our own relationship behavior? Many of the my kids' peers have fractured families - living with mom and her latest boyfriend, staying every other weekend with dad and his fiance. Children need to see abstinance in practice before they can create it in their own lives.

I understand how harsh this sounds. I was a single mom for many years. Let me tell you that "waiting" during a mature relationship is VERY difficult, but worth it!

I love it when my husband kisses me in front of the teen girls. They tease us, but I just tell them - we have God's permission to kiss. They really enjoy the joke too.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

My Dad read to me from a book about the Holy Virgin Mary, then told me he wished children were born without their sex organs.

I asked him what "swaddling clothes" were so he wouldn't know I already knew that people probably had babies the same way rabbits and dogs did.

Parents who act like sex, married or unmarried, is the most horrible thing on earth do their children no favors.

[Wright is right!]

Ms. Hagelin seems to equate a movie's "R" rating with sex, which I'd call a knee-jerk self-righteous and inflexible stance. There are a lot of worthwhile films rated R that have little if any sexual content. "Saving Private Ryan" was most certainly rated R and just as certainly wasn't about sex AT ALL. This woman seems to think that a movie about adult themes must necessarily be a movie about sex...to my mind, a fallacious endeavor. Plus, to NEVER expose an adolescent to the view of ANY sexuality at all is pretty ostrich-like.

While I applaud her zeal in maintaining a home free from licentious entertainment, she's painting with an overwide brush when it comes to movies - and, I suspect, other things , too. We do need to promote healthy values in our offspring, but I question coddling to such a degree that these young adults might be ill-equipped to handle the real world. After all, we've already artificially prolonged childhood to the age of 21 - you can't make them stay kids forever.

Michael

[Age of Reason]

she said but one word when I finished, "Yucky."

I've known some grown women who seem to have the same opinion!

[Simcha7]

Excellent Post!

Thank You.