Teen Modesty
When they become teens, the culture will head full strength into turning your children into sex symbols. This will happen a multitude of ways:
Television
The stars that are teens, the commercials, and what they see coming from people their age will be sexual in nature. They will be shown people that are attractive, people that they will look up to, and they will want to be like them.
Peer Pressure
We were built to be social beings, and we’re effected by those around us. When those around wear certain clothes, talk in certain ways, and get excited over certain things, it’s our natural inclination to do the same.
Physical Development
There are big changes that happen during puberty as you child grows up. These changes happen at different times and in different ways, but they will have an effect on how your teen sees themselves, and how they reflect to others.
It’s important during all of these changes, and with all of these influences, that you make sure to reinforce what you’ve laid the groundwork with—namely, purity and modesty. The rules don’t change just because the task got more difficult.
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Prime examples: Brittany, Lindsay, and Miley. And these girls are really just lost little girls underneath. It’s obvious to me that they’re trying to fill a void and trying to do so with the wrong things. Our children need to know where to find that fulfillment – Christ alone.
“The rules don’t change just because the task got more difficult.”
Best line of the article!
Modesty is good, but mixing it up with purity is a bit unfair. They should be two different lessons so that your daughter doesn’t feel that she’s being accused of impurity if you don’t like her jeans.
I suppose it depends on how you address her jeans. Keep in mind that teen girls are naieve in trying to find modest clothes – they’re figuring out their figures for the first time. Don’t attack their jeans like “Oh, I can’t believe you’d wear something like that!” Instead say something constructive like, “Those may be too tight, let’s try this pair intead.”