XXXChurch: Parents Blog
The stats tell us that 90% of kids, ages 8-16, have viewed porn online and that 30% of all global web traffic is porn. The largest porn site, which I won't name, gets 350 million unique visits a month and 4.4 billion page views. These types of numbers are astounding when you realize that the only websites that surpass these numbers are sites like Facebook and Google. So the masses are looking...
As parents and youth leaders, it’s easy to fall short when it comes to talking with our kids about sex and purity (but for a great resource, check out our book The Volunteer's Back Pocket Guide to Sex and our DVD resource, Pure Sex). Frankly, it’s just pretty uncomfortable to talk about sexual issues when we’re face to face with our “innocent” little sons and daughters, but the reality is...
Did I just hear some parents pass out?
When I was growing up, I don’t remember ever thinking about anal sex. Do you? Twenty years ago… or even ten years ago, most teenagers would not have known what anal sex even was. Those who did know about it probably would not have considered engaging in it. But as we talk about so often on this site, online pornography has become the primary sex-ed...
Over the past few months, we’ve started to tackle some common cultural myths relating to sexuality, including:
Myth 1: “Porn is Harmless Fun”
Myth 2: “If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It”
Myth 3: “What You Do Now Won’t Matter as an Adult”
Which brings us to Myth 4: “I Need to Masturbate!”
As we began to tackle last month, as uncomfortable as it is to talk to your son or daughter about sex, it’s even...
Since it’s STD Awareness Month, I want to continue to follow up on our conversation from last week about STDs. When I was going through Sex-Ed, frankly, I don’t think STDs (apart from AIDS) were really talked about much. Hopefully your kids have heard a little about STDs if they are a teen or tween, but if they haven’t, here are a few facts that are important to consider talking about with...
Did you know April is STD Awareness Month? Well, now you do, so it’s a good time to start talking to your teen or tween about the facts. As Kevin shared earlier this week, a common myth that we all believe when we are young is that what we do as kids won’t impact us as adults, but as Kevin highlighted, whether it’s a tattoo or an STD, the choices we make as youths can stick with our bodies...
Have you heard of ABC’s new show “GCB”? It’s based on a book called Good Christian Bitches; both book and show do a pretty good job of pointing out hypocrisy within the church and painting (at least some) Christians as pharisaical nut cases.
During the latest episode, Pastor Tudor (the head pastor of a church in the most affluent neighborhood in Dallas, TX) challenges the committed, married...
I think most parents would agree that the above statement is certainly a myth. Since we’ve all been kids already, we are living with the choices we made when we were young. Some of those choices were positive and some were not. But we live with them either way, but our kids can have a hard time grasping that as they live wild and free. The “free” part is a myth also. We all eventually pay.
At...
A few years ago, I worked on a multi-media project called Internet Safety 101, which focuses on educating and empowering parents to protect kids from online dangers. In one section of the program, we interviewed a number of teenagers to learn the impact pornography had already had on their young lives. As one 16-year-old boy explained (you can watch the clip here): “pornography shaped my...
In this week’s episode of Fox’s new hit show “New Girl”, one of the main characters, Nick, asks his roommate, Schmidt (currently king of casual sex), to help him learn how to have consensual, “meaningless” sex. You see, Nick has been sleeping with a lot of different women, and at the end of their romps, he hasn’t mastered the art of kicking a girl out of his life. Schmidt explains to Nick...
