Jackie Kennedy was not only the First Lady, but she was also the epitome of class and style. So it’s no wonder she said, “Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.” Maybe in the heat of the moment her clothes ended up scattered on the floor. So when she went to put them back on, they didn’t have that clean crisp look she was famous for. She looked rumpled. 

I hope her “Sex is a bad...

Andy Warhol once said, “Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets”. Movies and books glamorize unprotected sex, but the risk and consequences are rarely a part of the storyline. But that is not a surprise as movies and books are often about fantasy, not reality. In fantasyland you can have sex with multiple partners and never get an STD. In reality land,...

To answer this question let’s look at some stats first.

• 90% of kid’s ages 8 to 16 have viewed porn online.
• 11 is the average age of a child’s first experience to porn.
• 1 in 3 youth report unwanted exposure to sexual material online.

There are tons of stats related to kids and porn. As you can see by just a few I’ve listed, you need to start talking to your kids sooner rather than later. I...

Over the past 10 years, I have had the pleasure of speaking to parents at numerous schools about Internet safety. Whether it’s a private school, public school or religiously affiliated school the one thing I have found they have in common is that they have all had some sort of Internet safety program. Often it consists of an “Internet Usage Policy” that is sent home with your child at the...

What age is a good age to let your kids start dating? Good question, but I don’t have an answer that is necessarily a “universal fit”. So much of it can have to do with how mature your child is. And maturity can blossom at different ages. You really need to ask yourself some questions about your child to figure out if they’re ready to handle dating. How responsible are they? Do they generally...

When my son was young (4 or 5), my wife found him sitting on the family room floor flipping through a Victoria Secret catalog he had found. That was quite a shock for her. He was so young. I am not a doctor or psychologist, but I don’t think he was thinking sexual thoughts at that time. He didn’t even know what sex was. But something drew him to look at that catalog. It’s not like it was the...

Kids have sex. Not a few kids but a lot of kids. 33% of girls and 45% of boys have had sex by the time they turn 15 according to research done by the National Center for Health Statistics. A lot of the kids having sex are in Junior High. That can be a tough thing to wrap your brain around, especially if you have young teens. I hate to tell you it gets worse, but it does. Oral sex is the rage...

Last Sunday in Michigan there was an event called “A Mile of Men”. This large group of men got together on 8 Mile Road (a road infamous for prostitution and strip clubs) to unite and pray together and make a covenant with their eyes not to look lustfully at women. Although 8 Mile is a physical place we all have the potential to have an 8 Mile Road in our heads: an infamous place where we think...

Editor's note: This is part of our "Porn Makes Me" series; this story is contributed as today's subject: Porn makes me a bad example to my kid.

Can you imagine yourself saying that? Can you imagine it happening? You’re on your laptop late one night, and as you’re surfing the web you start to wander into areas you know you shouldn’t.

You eventually succumb to the temptation and start viewing...

Let me tell you why porn makes me angry. Pornographers on the Internet put a lot of effort into making sure kids stumble into porn. It’s not right. As parents, we can go through the efforts of raising our kids with the understanding of what is appropriate to view online. With can give them the wisdom and guidance to help them stay away from inappropriate content. And our kids could be doing...