Four Things to Check When Others Supervise Your Teens
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 In my presentation on pornography, Images or Glory, I talk about my first exposure (unintentional) at age 9 and then my first intentional viewing at age 13.
Let me tell you about another exposure at age 15.
My parents saw the R-rated football movie, Semi-Tough, starring Burt Reynolds. They quickly told me (correctly) that it was not appropriate for me, and they would not let me see it.
Football was my life at age 15 and a football movie with the most popular movie star of the day was all I could think about.
A few months later, I spent the night with my best friend. His parents wanted us all to go see Semi-Tough. My 15-year-old logic conveniently put the value of obeying the rules of other parents when in their house ahead of obeying my own parent's wishes.
You may balk at calling an R-rated movie pornography especially if you compare the sexual content of Semi-Tough to R-rated movies today. However, I can still vividly recall the nudity and values about sex presented in the film even though I never saw the movie again. It was pornography to me. This exposure reinforced the impressions my intentional viewing of pornography had begun a few years earlier.
My parents and my best friend's parents knew each other well, had been in each other's home, and trusted each other. They naturally but incorrectly assumed they had the same parenting style and values.
Today, it is even more likely for these differences to exist yet just as easy to assume they do not.
You have to be courageous and ask direct questions: - What will be the media standards for any video games, movies, etc.?
- What, if any, access will there be to the internet?
- What, if any, access will there be to cell phones/smart phones?
- Most importantly, make sure your teens know your standards and rules apply even when they are at a friend's home and their rules may allow it. Talk about what to do in those type of situations.
Be the courageous parent not the semi-tough one.
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Social Media Program in Dallas
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 Dallas/Ft. Worth has their first opportunity to see Eric's new program on social media this week. This popular program uses the Ten Commandments to teach a Godly use of social media. This Tuesday, April 22,
7:00 pmLegacy Christian Academy 5000 Academy Drive Frisco, Texas 75034
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