But for a child or young adult, peer pressure is huge and you are pressurized to listen to the same music and watch the same TV shows as everybody else
Nope. You make that choice yourself by who and what you surround yourself with. We always had wholesome music in the house, always watched wholesome programing. I was always surrounded by Catholics until we moved to my mother’s home state. So there were no pressures to have sex early or dress provacatively or anything.
When we moved here, I remained focused on the things I enjoyed (Church, music, movies, my fav TV shows, eating out, gardening, my animals). We never got involved in the kinds of things other kids did.
I’ve always lived a wholesome life. Mama never allowed us to hang around the “bad girls.” We were raised with the same morals and standards she was and never felt the need to rebel. In fact, I refer to my version of rebellion as what most people consider disobedience. Like if Mama said, “Clean your room” and I said, “No,” that would be my rebellion while it would be disobedience to others.
I was always such a little goody goody. No drinking. No drugs. No sex outside of marriage. The first time I saw an “R” rated movie, it was because someone at the paper put the wrong rating on it. “The Man Who Fell To Earth” - the most
boring movie I’d ever seen, two days before my 16th birthday.
And when I saw
that scene that made me think, “This should be ‘R’ rated,” I was mortified and told Mama when I got home that I needed to go to Confession. Luckily, our parish was in walking distance from both the house and the theatre.
