How do we parent children well in a world saturated with pornography? It’s actually quite simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. It takes hard work, and diligent relational parenting, to do these three steps well. First, we define the term p*rnogrpahy, then we talk about it in a way that equips our children to spot the lie, then we build hedges around our family to give them every opportunity to make the right decision in healthy ways.
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Greta Eskridge Quote:
“Just like we don’t show strangers our private parts, we don’t want to see other people’s private parts. So if we ever see those pictures or movies on a computer or a phone, or if someone shows them to us, we look away and then we go tell a safe grown up what we saw. You won’t be in trouble for seeing it. Talking about it is how we keep you safe.”, Greta Eskridge, @maandpamodern
The 4.5 Hedges Around our Family:
1. Time:
- What time?
- How often?
- How long?
2. Place:
- Not in room or meals
- What about car rides?
- Friends houses?
- School?
- At home but outside?
3. Content: What’s our standard. A good start:
- Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should (1 Cor. 6:12)
- Choose lovely (Phil. 4:8)
- Look at the fruit (Gal. 5:22)
4a. Safety: Strangers
- Adults who want to be your friend
- People you don’t know
- People asking for personal information: location, name, age
- People asking to turn camera on or send images
4b. Safety: Pornography
- People not wearing clothes being unkind
- It’s unsafe for everyone
- You can always tell us and we can help
- It’s a lie: not real, not love, not God’s plan
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