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 [...]
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?
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.
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 [...]
“I’m SEXY enough…to keep you waiting.†That’s the copy on a skimpy new tank top created by the Candies brand. Released as a part of the Candies Foundation, which exists in part to reduce teen pregnancy and encourage abstinence, it is one abstinence shirt you don’t want your daughter to wear. It sends a mixed [...]
The Internet, magazines, fashion trends and television are courting your daughter and defining her sense of beauty. And by the world’s definition this can include anything from thong underwear to being an impossible size O.The best way to fight back is parent-child connectedness-spending time with her! You can educate her, send her to Bible study, take her to church and even sit her in front of a counselor but none of those things can come close to the power of mother/daughter connectedness.
What do you get when you mix cell phones with a culture of Girls Gone Wild? Sexting. Sexting is the practice of young women sending text messages of nude or partially nude photos of themselves to their boyfriends or romantic prospects. It’s the newest craze. And it’s getting more and more prevalent. A survey of [...]
