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Hi all!
Thank you for reading this ~~~ I need some help.
God has blessed me with a big sister/little sister relationship (not my REAL sisiter) that I have cultivated since the little sister was about 9. She is now 15 and our friendship is growing stronger by the year. She loves me, I know - and looks up to me, opens up to me, is interested in my opinions. It is a great honor to me, and her mother is a very good friend.
Her family is a good moral family, but is not Christian, and seem somewhere between indifferent and antagonistic toward religion - although they really like me and respect my catholic faith though never interested in talking about. I respect them by only LIVING my faith well around them and not preaching.
My problem is this. I have great concern for my little sister who is growing up in a secular family in public school and is not being taught about chastity. She has intimated to me that she is under pressure, her friends are too, and boys persue her. I have been trying hard to teach her to protect herself from boys who only want to get something from her, and she says she ‘wants to wait’. I feel like I should have asked at that point “Wait for what?” but I didn’t.
I need resources to help teach her about chastity. I have no kids of my own so this is new territory for me. I would like to be able to teach her that she can make a decision that is a bond for as long as she is unmarried, and that it is a great thing to do. I just don’t know how. I feel like it is very urgent - and she is almost crying for help. I want to help her. I am cautious about anything that is too religious - that will come with time, and I don’t want to spook her or make her parents mad. (I did show this girl the inside of our very* catholic* flavored chapel when the only light glowing was the red lamp! You could see she was moved - almost afraid. Said she had never been inside a church before!)
Can someone recommend something to help me help her dicover chastity?
I really appreciate your help.
And if you choose to pray for her, her name is Michelle. She’s a really good kid.
Thanks
Thank you for reading this ~~~ I need some help.
God has blessed me with a big sister/little sister relationship (not my REAL sisiter) that I have cultivated since the little sister was about 9. She is now 15 and our friendship is growing stronger by the year. She loves me, I know - and looks up to me, opens up to me, is interested in my opinions. It is a great honor to me, and her mother is a very good friend.
Her family is a good moral family, but is not Christian, and seem somewhere between indifferent and antagonistic toward religion - although they really like me and respect my catholic faith though never interested in talking about. I respect them by only LIVING my faith well around them and not preaching.
My problem is this. I have great concern for my little sister who is growing up in a secular family in public school and is not being taught about chastity. She has intimated to me that she is under pressure, her friends are too, and boys persue her. I have been trying hard to teach her to protect herself from boys who only want to get something from her, and she says she ‘wants to wait’. I feel like I should have asked at that point “Wait for what?” but I didn’t.
I need resources to help teach her about chastity. I have no kids of my own so this is new territory for me. I would like to be able to teach her that she can make a decision that is a bond for as long as she is unmarried, and that it is a great thing to do. I just don’t know how. I feel like it is very urgent - and she is almost crying for help. I want to help her. I am cautious about anything that is too religious - that will come with time, and I don’t want to spook her or make her parents mad. (I did show this girl the inside of our very* catholic* flavored chapel when the only light glowing was the red lamp! You could see she was moved - almost afraid. Said she had never been inside a church before!)
Can someone recommend something to help me help her dicover chastity?
I really appreciate your help.
And if you choose to pray for her, her name is Michelle. She’s a really good kid.
Thanks
