I’ve been so busy making gifts and helping the children make gifts this week that I haven’t done much reading on the internet. I do have a few things for you though.
Since the children have been sick and we’ve been working hard to catch up on our schoolwork, I’ve let our daily copywork slide. This article has reminded me that I need to get back to it when we return to school in January.
How Handwriting Trains the Brain
A while ago I read an article written by a woman who took a purity vow as a teenager and wished she hadn’t. I’ve been thinking about responding to it, and maybe I still will. In the meantime, someone else has. She did a great job and addressed some of the things that upset me in the original article.
One of the things that bothers me is that we talk about “losing virginity” as if it’s not important. I think instead of warning our children about “losing their virginity”, we should be talking to them about the beauty of giving as a precious gift to their spouse.
Christians, Stop Staying Pure Till Marriage
I also read another article by a single guy about his motivations behind staying pure. I think there’s a lot to think about in these two articles.
I Didn’t Wait for My Future Spouse, and You Shouldn’t Either
On a lighter note, if you’ve never watched “Kid Snippets” on YouTube you really should. I almost always laugh out loud at these. They are a great stress reliever. Here’s one to whet your appetite.
Finally, I’ve worked really hard to make my Pinterest boards look pretty and organized. What do you think?
Do you have anything to add to my reading for this week?
Intentional Simplicity 
So far what I’ve seen on your pinterest is great – Hoping to dig in tonight further while anxiously waiting for my son to get home ;).
I am also keeping those articles open to read later.
I haven’t read them yet but I agree with you that we should think positively in teaching our children and remind them it is a gift to give.
I also think that while it is so important to talk to your kids about remaining pure and waiting ’til marriage – it isn’t a conversation to have “all the time” with even younger teens! I think the focus on things “sexual” is so predominant in our society that we, as Christians feel somehow we have to “keep up”.
That being said, we still need to talk to them frankly about waiting. I just am trying to raise the kids (Pierre with me) to not think about guy/girl relationships all the time but to focus on many other areas of life ;). We have really started restricting what they watch on tv and what they read so the focus isn’t about relationships.
I look forward to reading those articles.
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I read the articles and I agree with them both – I especially liked the man’s article.
I believe we are doing our kids a disservice by focusing on relationships at such a young age that are “material” and not cultivating their relationship with God!
I have really had my eyes open to that in the past couple of years and I try to link all their behaviors to their christianity and to what God wants from them. We encourage them to get close to God and I used to think I wanted my girls to read all the historical novels I have read and enjoy but now I’ve decided they can wait ;). I don’t want them soaking up so much “romance” and getting the wrong ideas. I want to see them grow in God first!!
Good articles – thanks for sharing!
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I loved how one of them pointed out that we don’t stay pure “until” we’re married. Purity is something that is ongoing after we marry. We stay pure in our marriage and staying pure before we marry helps us to stay pure after. I think dating helps people to accept divorce more easily. Always looking for something better. If our children focus on their relationship with God everything else will fall into place.
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Yes I agree that our purity is ongoing in marriage and dating leads to “easier” divorces :P.
I just tell Jon (the only one “allowed” to think about it right now LOL) to not think about a girl to court ’til he has lined her up with the Bible and could he see himself married to her (meaning – is she godly). Praying much for him – we’ll see how it all goes 🙂
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That is the next stage, isn’t it? Watching all the cousins start to marry and have families. How did we get this old? 🙂
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I don’t think we got old – only they did! LOL
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Ha! That was my first experience with Kid Snippets. Funny kids.
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Glad you enjoyed it.
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