At what age do you allow your child privacy in his or her own room? When do you begin knocking on their door before entering? Do you enter when the child is not home
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I'd say probably around age 10 I'll start giving privacy. However, until my child is 16 or 17, I'll just knock twice, let them know I am coming in and go in. At 16 or so, I'll wait for them to tell me it's ok. There won't be locks on the doors, either. And me letting them tell me it's alright is dependent on if I'm suspicious of something or not, if I'm suspicious of something I'll just walk in. If they are not home, I will go in their room but only to put away clothes or their things that may be through the house, I would never go through their belongings
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I loled at dates having to stay in the living room/couch. You'd think that adults would have enough common courtesy to not have sex/fool around in someone else's house, so I wouldn't try to keep dates out of their rooms. Besides, how weird would it be to have to sit on the couch with your date, with your parents hovering around. Holy awkward batman! LOL
I know. Besides, if your main goal is to deter kids from fooling around, they will find a way to do it somehow. You can set all the rules you'd like. Furthermore, if a college-aged student lives at home during breaks, do you honestly deem that curfew reasonable? Come on. :-\
Of course they would find ways to do it....but my kids are going to be taught from an age that they are old enough to understand that they shouldn't have sex until they are married because fornication is a huge sin, and if they DO then it should at the very least be with somebody they care a lot about--preferably love. Not just for the sake of fooling around.
I'm not trying to be a bitch, but the fact that you value religion so highly does not automatically mean your children will do the same. Christianity is not for everyone.
Of course not. And I know that Christianity is not for everyone, I can only hope my children choose Christianity, but if they decide to be another religion and explore religions, that's fine with me. I can't choose their religion for them, certainly. I can only teach them the best I can and hope that they use their better judgment when it comes to things like religion.
Yes. But I only recently found Christianity (on May 13thish) so that doesn't matter to the here and now. It even states such things in the bible, like if you did X before becoming Christian you can still be Christian and those sins don't matter anymore as long as you don't do them again. I'm not planning on fornicating again and I'm happily celibate. :)
Umm, is it illegal for somebody to be happy with their religion and want their children to follow in their footsteps religious wise? I didn't think it was. I'm not going to enforce that they be Christian--that is their choice. However I am going to raise them in a Christian way.
I'm very active on a Christian forum, and from what I read there this is very much the norm in Christian parenting. At least among Christians that have a desire to make God happy--I just so happen to be a Christian that wants to make Him happy. When you become Christian, sure it takes time for you to FULLY change, but God starts working on molding you into a good Christian. God starts working on leading you down His path. You have no control over it really--unless you just rebel against everything and not let God into your heart like you said you'd do but really didn't. If you are a TRUE Christian, you let God take charge and lead you and you let Him into your heart and into your body and mind and spirit so that He can do His work. I've done that. I've let Him do His work on me. I've prayed to Him a lot about a lot of things, and He's been the hand in 99% of the decisions I've made. I've listened for His desires, and listened to see what He thought of something. I've looked on what I felt about something and really most of the stuff
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I'm not a Christian, so I have no idea if what you're saying is true, for Christians at least.
And I'd do more research into the religion itself, before using it as a parenting tool. And that would go for any religion. I would want to find out if there were any huge differences between my values and those of a particular religion, some of which may not be found out until learning more about the religion than what's on the surface.
There are books on it you know. Hundreds and hundreds of books on Christian parenting. Same way there are hundreds of books on any other type of parentingl. Novel idea: Try reading a book!
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You'd think that adults would have enough common courtesy to not have sex/fool around in someone else's house, so I wouldn't try to keep dates out of their rooms. Besides, how weird would it be to have to sit on the couch with your date, with your parents hovering around. Holy awkward batman! LOL
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Oh I see.
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And I'd do more research into the religion itself, before using it as a parenting tool. And that would go for any religion. I would want to find out if there were any huge differences between my values and those of a particular religion, some of which may not be found out until learning more about the religion than what's on the surface.
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