Week 4 - You've Made It!

Step 4. Live in it Daily - Week 4 - Suggested Nights: Tuesday, Feb. 21 or Thursday, Feb. 23


Here we are! You’ve made it to week 4! You are to be congratulated and applauded. You have shown that you have a deep and genuine love for your students life.

For this week, I encourage you to (re)read Michelle Wallace’s article, ‘Modeling Purity to Your Kids.’

Spend this week talking to your child about how you want conversations like this to continue. Encourage them to initiate the conversation with you sometime, just like you have with them consistently over the past four weeks. Let them know how much you care about them and want to be there alongside them as they go through middle school and high school. Yes, this sounds cheesy. But, when I have children I want them to always know (no matter how cheesy) how much I love them and want to be an active part of their world.

Pray over your child this week and ask them to pray for you.

Encourage your child.

Affirm who they are and who you see them becoming.

Challenge your child to stand up for what they believe.

Tell your child you love them.

I have to admit some candid happiness at this moment. I am so thrilled that you have invested in the life of your child over the past four weeks in this way. For you, it may not be that different from what you have already done with your child or maybe this is your very first time attempting something like this. Either way, you are the minority. I hear story after story from college students and people my age about how they learned everything they know about purity and sexuality from theirs friends at school. This resource won’t change the fact that students are going to learn from their friends, but now they have been given true, accurate, and appropriate information that they can weigh everything else they learn against.


Don’t let this be the end, make this the beginning. Continue these conversations over the coming weeks.

Week 3 - Putting Up Walls

Step 3. Put up the Walls - Week 3 - Suggested Nights: Tuesday, Feb. 14 or Thursday, Feb. 16

Once you’ve started to create the culture of open conversation and laid a solid foundation, it’s time to start to putting up some walls. Usually this is a bad thing in relationships, but here we’re talking about going through room-by-room of your childs’ heart and hearing from them about what they are struggling with. What are they dealing with? What are they hearing from school? What do they see their friends doing that they question whether it’s right or wrong?

For this week I encourage you to (re)read the article by Jori Reijonen,, Ph.D., ‘Adolescent Sexuality and Finding Identity in Christ.’ Incredible insight into the different rooms of your child’s mind and heart.

I believe that if you are consistent the first two weeks with sitting down and talking to your child, you will be pleasantly surprised with what they share with you during the conversations.