TRUTH #3: Temptation Is Something Honorable Boys Don’t Want
My son broke down in tears as he confessed looking at something he shouldn’t have looked at online. Like many boys I’ve researched, he wants to be honorable toward women. He wants to do what God asks. He doesn’t want this temptation and it makes me furious at how often his brain is being stimulated in this culture and how hard it is to avoid that stimulation. Yes, when our boys make the wrong decisions and repeatedly make bad choices, they need consequences, they need help, and they need to know we are disappointed in them. But we need to understand that they are also disappointed in themselves. Often, in fact, we need great wisdom about when our boys may need support more than discipline. This fight cannot be “us vs. our sons”. It must be us and our sons side-by-side, confronting a temptation that is thrown at them every day, and which neither of us want them to have.
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