Parents Beware of This Book
Conversations with God for Teens, written by Neale D. Walsch.It may sound harmless enough by the titles alone. The book has been on the New York Times best sellers list for a number of weeks, and they make truth of the statement, "Don't judge a book by its cover or title."
The author of "Conversations with God" purports to answer various questions asked by kids using the "voice of God". However, the "answers" that he gives are not Bible-based and go against the very infallible word of God. For instance (and I paraphrase), When a girl asks the question "Why am I a lesbian?" His answer is that she was 'born that way' because of genetics (just as you were born right-handed, with brown eyes, etc.). Then he tells her to go out and "celebrate" her differences.
Another girls poses the question "I am living with my boyfriend. My parents say that I should marry him because I am living in sin. Should I marry him?" His reply is, "Who are you sinning against? Not me, because you have done nothing wrong."
This book and others like it are being sold to schoolchildren through (The Scholastic Book Club), and we need to be aware of what is being fed to our children.
The children of our nation are under attack. We need to be sober and vigilant about teaching our children the Word of God, and pointing out to our kids the difference between what they are told from worldly mediums and what the Word of God has to say.
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Should you read your kids’ texts?
by Liz Perle, Editor-in-Chief
“Should I be spying on my kid’s text messages? ” I hear this question all the time from parents of teens. My teens let me see their Facebook pages, but their more private text communications are off limits (never mind that we pay the bills...). But I must confess that I've sneaked peeks at their texts in those rare instances when the phone and the child aren't surgically attached.
In fact, there’s no absolute right answer here. It depends on your kids’ ages, personalities, and behaviors. You can always ask to see their messages (we did this at home for the first few years so we could teach proper, safe behavior). If your kids recoil in horror, ask why they don’t want you to see them -- it's probably nothing nefarious; indeed, the likelihood is that you’ll see text equivalents of grunting.
The most important thing is that you tell your kids your family's rules for what is and isn’t acceptable text behavior. Remind them that any text can be forwarded to an unintended audience -- and texts that involve drugs, sex, or other illegal things can get kids into real legal trouble. If you do decide to sneak a peek, be prepared to see things you won’t like -- and to have to choose whether or not to confront your child about what you’ve discovered. Ultimately, it’s more important to teach responsible text behavior than it is to fight every infraction.
