by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 29, 2023 | Parenting Teens
It’s time to focus on the effects of modesty messages on girls–rather than the effects of girls on boys. For the last few weeks we’ve been talking about modesty rules for teens, on the podcast, on the blog, and on social media. I often get extremely...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Let’s talk about the echoes of menstruation. Yesterday on the podcast, we were discussing how Focus on the Family’s PluggedIn movie review of Turning Red put references to preteen girls’ periods under “sexual content”, and warned that the...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 24, 2022 | Podcasts
So apparently preteen girls’ cramps and pads are sexual, according to Focus on the Family. We have a little bit of a detour today because something blew up last week that I just had to address! Rebecca noticed that in Focus on the Family’s PluggedIn movie...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am very, very tired of the “don’t be a stumbling block” argument when it comes to modesty for girls. I know that this is a very widespread debate, and I have talked about it before in two main posts: My 40% Modesty Rule Why Don’t Be a...