A Caution About the New American Girl Book
By Dannah Gresh, Founder of True Girl Dolls are great for creative play, but the kind of doll your plays with matters more than you might know.
By Dannah Gresh, Founder of True Girl Dolls are great for creative play, but the kind of doll your plays with matters more than you might know.
According to a Stanford University study, the average female graduates college with more than 7 sexual partners. What’s more shocking is the number of them
Every day I'm ministering to women who have become enslaved to pornography. It didn't used to be a female problem. Now it is. Why? Because
By Dannah Gresh, Founder of True Girl What are you teaching your daughters about womanhood? Your granddaughters? Gender is such a spiritual battlefield in the
by: Bethany Beal I was the teenage girl reading Christian books about modesty, purity, and relationships. I often read my favorite books over and
By Dannah Gresh, Founder of True Girl
Of all the things you can do to reduce the risk of your child experiencing an early sexual debut, social science states that one thing reduces the risk more than anything else. And I think it's safe to say that social science is just figuring out what God recorded in the pages of Scripture.
What is the number one way to reduce the risk of an early sexual debut? It's not signing a purity pledge. Though signing one has been proven to delay sexual experience by about 18 months, these are not foolproof tools. It's not peer-based abstinence accountability programs. Though programs like Best Friends have proven that positive peer pressure to delay sex is effective, resulting in an 80% reduction in the likelihood that participants would have sex. It's not having your child participate in comprehensive abstinence education. Though programs such as Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education have participants who are less likely to experiment with sex than those who did not take the comprehensive course. It's also not your killer youth pastor, a best-selling book like my first (And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual Purity), or attending a purity event with Christian principles. Nope! These things help and remind us that our approach must be comprehensive when helping our children embrace and live out a Christian sexual ethic.
The number one risk reducer? It's you, mom! And dad! Parent-child connection is the thing that most reduces the risk of an early sexual debut and so much more that you might fear for your child including substance abuse, violent behavior, or academic failure.
By Dannah Gresh, founder of True Girl
"I'm not talking to my children about sex yet. It's too soon," stated a defensive mother after I addressed an audience at one of my workshops.
"How old are your kids?" I asked.
"12 and 14," answered the mom.
I hear it all the time. Parents argue that not talking to their kids about sex will "reduce the risk" and "keep them innocent." In fact, not talking to your kids about sex and abstinence is one of the top five things that place kids at risk of having sex too soon. The best age to begin the direct conversation that includes the mechanics of sex is about the ninth or tenth year, but this list includes resources for building the conversation from the ages of 3 to the college years. I've been reviewing content regarding sex education for parents for nearly two decades. Let me share with you my top seven resources to talk to your kids about sex.
If there were something you could do to reduce the risk of your child’s heart being broken by future sexual pain, would you do it?
By Dannah Gresh, founder of True Girl
Recently, I read an article where the author stated that the Bible lays out an overriding Christian principle that has been used to defend vaccination.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength”…“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these (Mark 12:30-31).
Rachel Marie Stone offered her viewpoint in Christianity Today’s women’s blog, Her.meneutics.
Truly, Jesus told us we should not love ourselves more than we love others. I think it's fair to at least consider the fact that vaccinations are a practical way to love our neighbors well. (Ask someone who lived through the polio epidemic what they think of vaccines?) Does that make the decision an easy one? Unfortunately, no.
Though I’ve never liked one single shot in the arm that my children had to receive for the good of mankind, they are up to date in all recommended vaccinations…with one exception: Gardasil.
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