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Apr 2024
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Talking to Your Pre-Teens About Sex – Pa...

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How do you encourage your kids to save sex for marriage when they hear so many toxic messages from the world? Jim Daly talks to a panel of parents about a creative analogy for encouraging your kids to stay sexually pure. Also, John and Danny offer hope to parents who discover their kids are looking at pornography.

 

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