GOD MADE ALL OF ME:
ISBN 9781942572305
NOT IF BUT WHEN:
ISBN 9781527103429
GOOD PICTURES BAD PICTURES JR:
ISBN 9780997318722
GOOD PICTURES BAD PICTURES: PORN-PROOFING TODAY’S YOUNG KIDS
ISBN 9780997318739
Addiction is a word we use without really thinking. Coffee, chocolate, online Scrabble – but it is a lot more sinister than that. Especially today’s visual addiction to pornography.
The British Board of Film Classification warns that the majority of kids are exposed to porn by age 13, with some exposed as young as seven.
Other Christian websites give the average age of first exposure as eight years old. You may be inclined to think ‘not my kids’ – however, the authors that I am going to introduce you to here will disagree.
Two titles tackle the issues of privacy and pornography for very young children.
God Made All of Me by Justin and Lindsey Holcomb, and published by New Growth Press, introduces the concept of privacy. Body parts covered by a swimsuit are private and not to be touched without your permission. It is aimed at 2–8-year-olds to help them distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate touch.
Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr. is written for a similar age and published by Protect Young Minds. It has no direct Biblical message, so this is a book that I would choose to read alongside God Made All of Me.
The same publishing company has produced a book that tackles pornography for older children: Good Pictures Bad Pictures – Porn-proofing Today’s Young Kids. This has more scientific detail in it, dealing with why pornography is bad for our brains.
Although neither of the Good Pictures Bad Pictures titles refers to any Biblical reasons for avoiding pornography, there is nothing in either that is anti-Christian. However, neither refers to the fact that God has made us in his image, yet God Made All of Me is rich in those references.
Christian Focus Publications has produced a book for 7–11-year-olds entitled Not If, But When, by John Perritt. It has a story aimed at girls and then one at boys and has a strong Biblical emphasis.
We want our children to be exposed to the truth of God’s word about sex before they are exposed to the world’s lies. Perritt’s book will help you introduce your child to God’s wonderful gift of sex as well as warn them about the evil of pornography.
The enemy’s greatest tool for spreading the evil of pornography has been our silence. Too many parents are embarrassed to deal with the subject, so don’t talk about it at all.
All these books will give you an arsenal to fight an evil that your child will at some point be exposed to.
Read them alongside your child and start the conversation.
