My parents didn’t talk about sex , until it was too late and I was left feeling it was wrong to do

Keywords: parenting

I never understood reasons why, only that God says not too and they did too. No one told me what was appropriate, but I knew darn well when I was mistreated and being used as an object, that it wasn’t right and it confused me about what sex is meant to be about. It seems the talk of sex is still taboo, but in this day and age there are so many things pulling them into the trap of sexual desire, and perversion. We as parents are responsible for teaching the real facts of life to our kids and the truth about what is acceptable and not. The fact is a lot of our world is broken and misguided. We need to pull up [our] big kid pants, be the adult and inform them. There is no hiding behind a screen, and just hoping someone will do the hard stuff for me and you. I hope and pray that God will protect all my children, and the fact that boys and girls are equally vulnerable is heart breaking.

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Happy or Right

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I
read this old article in Psychology Today
entitled: “Would
you rather be right or would you rather be happy

which discusses control and how you can be a slave to this need to control
things. It hurts you as well as those around you. It also includes a citation
from The Tao Te Ching, verses
74
,
which I will paraphrase here:

Being in control is like trying to
take the master craftsman’s place: You take up his tools, you’ll probably get cut.

OK.

Trying to control things is bad,
yes; and hurting others, even if unintentional, is bad, too—Of Course. But my problem, with the article at least,
is that the narrative running through the text is about a husband who wants to be right and a wife who will
not back down. He is the heavy in this situation, illustrated perfectly by
their going…

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