Boy Crazy Girl
How did Paula go from being a needy, boy-crazed, romance-novel junkie to someone who’s focused on the right things? Find out on this Girls Gone Wise video.
Category: Life Stages
Calling All Teens
Are you between the ages of 13 and 19? If so, I could use your help! (Moms and mentors, I could use your help too. You could pass this request on to your daughter or a young friend.) I’m working on writing a devotional for teen girls with my friend, Susan Hunt. It will be [...]
Honor & Obey: The Dividing Line for Adult Children
As a growing child, it is important to obey your parents. But when we get older and move from childhood to womanhood, do we still have to obey? As a grown woman, at what point can I stop listening to my parents? Is there a difference between honoring & obeying?
You Can’t Marry Mr. Darcy!
Mr. Darcy. He is every woman’s ideal man, and every girl swoons at the mention of his name. But as perfect as Mr. Darcy is, he has one undeniable flaw: You can’t MARRY Mr. Darcy.
Waiting for Life to Start
Just like getting a pink bunny suit for Christmas, the gift of singleness can leave you feeling disappointed, awkward, and like everyone’s staring at you! But you don’t have to keep waiting for life to start!
Protecting Girls from Boy-Craziness
There is an inarguable connection between the media diet of tweens and early sexual activity in teens. Doesn’t it make sense that anything we feed our daughters that says “be boy-crazy” would just put her in the cultural current of early sexualization?
Calling All the Single Ladies!
Status: Single. That’s what my Facebook profile says. Like a large banner stamped across my homepage: I. AM. SINGLE. I can’t help but entertain the idea that something is missing from my life.
Teaching Young Women to be True Women
I left the Ft. Worth conference thinking about something Dannah Gresh said during our panel discussion. She encouraged us to begin teaching our girls at a young age—and not to wait to guide them in forming godly values.
We Need Each Other
Last Sunday, I had coffee with a friend who wanted to talk about her relationship with her boyfriend. Last night, a friend stopped in on a surprise business trip to this area. This morning, a friend of my son’s stopped in to say goodbye to me before leaving on an extended trip. Tonight, I’ll be [...]
She Does Him Good (even before she meets him)
God has some great big plans that so far has not included a wedding ring for me. These are my thoughts as I have continued to reflect on Proverbs 31.12 “She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.”
Sexual Purity Starts at Seven
By the time she is sixteen, a Christian girl has a 50/50 chance of surviving life without the experiences of sexual sin, eating disorders and depression. Parents who “did everything right” can’t understand how it happened when their daughter falls on the wrong side of the stats. What they don’t know is that they may [...]
Living with a Hope Deferred – Part 3
My favorite moment was when Dr. Dobson asked me how I handle going out in public without a date. I had totally forgotten he asked me this when we recorded these programs last April. So as I stood in the kitchen listening to this show, I found myself pausing with my coffee spoon in mid-air, wondering what I said in response.
