I read a quote over the summer that keeps rolling around in my head. It was from actress Diane Keaton, talking about how nothing challenges your values like having children. It's easy enough to say what you believe--and even say it with conviction. But until you're called to live out those values in front of your children, or enforce them on behalf of your children, they're just empty words.
For me the rubber met the road this past weekend when my 10-year old daughter was at a sleepover birthday party with four other girls her age--girls who, for the most part, have different rules in their homes than we do. Girls whose families are all apparently okay with letting them watch PG-13 movies.
The movie in question was "Step Up 2," a romance about two teenage dance students from different backgrounds. A movie that includes not only "realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and/or stories in which children are hurt or threatened" but also "provocative dancing and kissing" (information taken from youngmedia.org).
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