{"id":63,"date":"2015-04-29T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentequip.info\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2015-07-02T21:12:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T11:12:25","slug":"boyfriends-girlfriends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"Boyfriends &#038; Girlfriends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"TableContents\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>CONSIDERING A <span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8216;NO BOYFRIEND\/GIRLFRIEND POLICY&#8217; <\/span>based on statistical info.<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"TableContents\"><b> WHY consider a &#8216;No Boyfriend\/Girlfriend Policy&#8217; in your home &amp; amongst your child&#8217;s peers???<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"TableContents\"><b>Information based on content from<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Six Ways to Keep The &#8216;Little&#8217; in Your Girl<\/span> (Dannah Gresh)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"TableContents\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>BOYFRIENDS<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Centre for Disease Control &amp; Prevention<\/i> reports, approx 46% of students graduate from high school <b>sexually active<\/b>, 30% of 15-18 y.o. have had\/given <b>oral sex<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>The Medical Institute for Sexual Health has analysed the top factors that place a teen girl most at risk of being in the above stats. A key one is &#8216;<b>having a boyfriend for 6 months or longer<\/b>&#8216;. Considering the nature of teens &amp; boy craziness,without a parent&#8217;s active guidance, a girl has little chance of not having a boyfriend for 6 months or longer. Almost 50% of tweens have, or have had, a boyfriend. Most think it means you &#8216;hold hands&#8217; or say &#8216;I like you&#8217;, while 30% think it means having oral\/sexual intercourse.<\/li>\n<li>Even approched innocently, having a boyfriend in her tweens can increase the risk she&#8217;ll have a boyfriend for 6 months or longer when she&#8217;s a teen, putting her in the high risk category of being sexually active.<\/li>\n<li><b>Therefore, the way you encourage your girl to approach boys when she&#8217;s 8 can influence her behaviour when she&#8217;s 16!<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>consider standing by a &#8216;No boyfriend\/girlfriend policy&#8217; in your family &amp; perhaps amongst your child&#8217;s peers thru the school years?!?! <\/b>Surely the school years are there for your child to be educated &amp; not to deal with the distractions &amp; pressures of boyfriend\/girlfriend relationships! Consider that your kids are too young in Primary School, in particular, to be coping with the expectations &amp; pressures of intimate relationships. If you have children in older grades entertaining members of the opposite sex on campus, consider the role model portrayed to those young eyes &amp; hearts looking up to your children for a guage of how to do life well &amp; God&#8217;s way!??!<\/li>\n<li><b>consider practical ways of talking to your daughter<\/b> about protecting her heart, letting God write her love story, the secret part of a girls&#8217; beauty discussed in <b><span style=\"color: red;\">Keys for Your Daughter.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>consider practical ways of talking to your son<\/b> about self-control, pornography &amp; choices discussed in <b><span style=\"color: red;\">Keys for Your Son<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\">.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONSIDERING A &#8216;NO BOYFRIEND\/GIRLFRIEND POLICY&#8217; based on statistical info. WHY consider a &#8216;No Boyfriend\/Girlfriend Policy&#8217; in your home &amp; amongst your child&#8217;s peers??? Information based on content from Six Ways to Keep The &#8216;Little&#8217; in Your Girl (Dannah Gresh) BOYFRIENDS The Centre for Disease Control &amp; Prevention reports, approx 46% of students graduate from high &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/?page_id=63\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boyfriends &#038; Girlfriends<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":166,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/90"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parentequip.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}