Helping Your Child Avoid the Pornography Trap - By; Dennis and Barbara Rainey
Developing your child’s convictions about pornography will take many different forms. We’ve gone to junior high and high school to talk to teachers who have asked our sons to read what would be rated R in movies. We’ve sought to expose pornography’s lies by talking about its impact on men like Ted Bundy. And we’ve taken our sons and daughters with us when we’ve gone to movie theaters to talk to theater managers and protest an NC-17 (formerly X-rated) movie that came to our community.
All of these actions and more can shape your child’s convictions and keep him out of the traps. In addition, there are two other convictions your child should learn and embrace.
Child’s Conviction 1: I understand that pornography is sin and can destroy my life and my future marriage and family.
You may wonder how much detail to share about pornography with a child without drifting toward prurience. A great guideline is to look at Scripture and see how the Lord warns us about certain things. He certainly doesn’t tell the whole story to provoke our carnality and flesh to sin. For example, in Proverbs we read this description of a woman to avoid: “For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and smoother than oil is her speech” (5:3). That is not an explicit description of a prostitute propositioning someone, but it gets the point across.
When talking to a preteen or teen about pornography, you can explain that many people today look at pictures of naked women and men performing sexual activity, but none of this is pleasing to God. Pornography takes something that is beautiful when it occurs between a married man and woman and makes it dirty. At younger ages, say up to about 12, your child needs only to know that pornography isn’t good for him. He certainly doesn’t need details that would attract him.
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Thanks for this post! Its great that you are working with teens and helping them have a good view of sexuality so they can combat the temptation to view porn.
I wrote a series of posts about teens and pornography a while back:
Part 1: http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/08/27/teens-and-internet-pornography-part-1/
Part 2: http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/09/02/teens-and-internet-pornography-part-2/
Part 3: http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/09/05/teens-and-internet-pornography-part-3/
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