I've only read 2 EE books... Passion and Purity was probably the least annoying book of its kind that I've read although again it's like... okay, so you were perfect and made it to your wedding night a virgin. That's wonderful. But so much emphasis is put on that and not on how to form the character necessary to have that kind of moral stamina. (I had more appreciation for "Let Me Be a Woman").
Strikes me that if we spent more time indoctrinating our kids with lessons like, "No dessert until after you've eaten dinner" or "put your birthday money away and save it" or other similar anti-instant gratification things, they will be more able to handle dating, er, courtship and make it through unscathed. It's how we handle the little things that forms our ability to handle the big things.
LOL. I'm just so glad I'm not the only one who struggles with books like this, because I feel guilty admitting that I do indeed have problems with them.
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Date: 2010-06-02 09:44 pm (UTC)Strikes me that if we spent more time indoctrinating our kids with lessons like, "No dessert until after you've eaten dinner" or "put your birthday money away and save it" or other similar anti-instant gratification things, they will be more able to handle dating, er, courtship and make it through unscathed. It's how we handle the little things that forms our ability to handle the big things.
LOL. I'm just so glad I'm not the only one who struggles with books like this, because I feel guilty admitting that I do indeed have problems with them.