Secret Keeper Girl

Posted By Dannah GreshI’m finishing up the galley (designed manuscript) portion of my September release Six Ways To Keep The Little In Your Girl: Raising Your Tween To Be A Godly Teen. We need “something” to fill a page at the beginning of each chapter. I’d like to include real life concerns from moms. Your first name would appear under your quote with the name and age of your daughter.  So….could you talk a quick minute and answer this question?

WHAT CULTURAL PRESSURE MOST CONCERNS  YOU ABOUT RAISING YOUR DAUGHTER?

(2-3 sentences, please. Can be in the form of questions.)

Here are some key areas that the book covers and it’d be great to have these addressed in some of your answers.

• Toys, Dolls, Commercialism
• Periods, Hormones
• Boys, Boy-craziness at a younger and younger age
• Sleep overs, the cultural pressure to have less and less family time
• Carpooling (importance of it so you can hear what’s going on)
• Television, Movies, Music and Celebrity Influence
• Immodesty, beauty products sold earlier and earlier
• Mean girls

You don’t have to use the list above. It’s just for creating creative ideas!Here’s how it should look:

“I can’t believe the pressure to dress immodestly. I thought that after all the groundwork I laid with my girls when they were little, it wouldn’t be so hard. But it is. Are there any other moms out there saying “no” to low cut shirts and bikinis?”Dannah, mom to Lexi (16) and Autumn (16)

Posted By Dannah Gresh

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED! CONGRATULATIONS TO SHANNON!

Here’s the crowd at a recent Miley Cyrus concert.

Looks to me like the average age of a Miley Cyrus fan is still ten. Here’s what that crowd saw on stage.

And that’s a mild photo. Most of what Miley is doing on stage right now, including simulated lesbian kisses and deviant sexual simulations, won’t show up in the photos on this blog since we get little visitors. (To see more, you can subscribe to my monthly eblasts here. I’ll keep you up-to-date on any cultural issues that face you and your daughter!) There is no doubt that the behavior of Miley is going to infect her fans. A lot of attention has been brought to my recent Open Letter To Billy Ray & Tish Cyrus. Many mediums such as the Baptist Free Press, American Family Association and Chris Fabry Live have jumped on the band wagon to have an intelligent dialogue about how Miley’s behavior may infect our little girls. I’d like to suggest that the word-of-mouth of a couple of hundred moms is more powerful than any single media outlet, so I’d like you to put on the hat of discerning reporter, if you don’t mind, and help me out. Inspired by one mom and daughter who called in on Chris Fabry Live, I want to issue a Miley Mania Mash Challenge. Ten-year-old Ariel, after seeing Miley’s recent Can’t Be Tamed video, came home and told her mom that she was sad. Ariel decided to stop watching Hannah Montana and asked her mom to please help her gather up her Miley fan gear and throw it away. I was so proud of that little girl that I sent her an entire set of Secret Keeper Girl stuff to fill the gap. I want to give away another set of free stuff to a mother/daughter pair who are willing to do the same. Here’s how you can be our randomly selected winner.

1. Read my Open Letter To Billy Ray & Tish Cyrus.  Share it on your facebook page or link to it in your blog. Remember to keep it kind and hopeful that Miley will turn around. Let’s not bash her, but I think at this point it is OK to boycott her.
2. Talk to your daughter about her Miley Mania, if she’s a fan. Consider unplugging and throwing away fan gear. If you aren’t a fan, have another talk about why you aren’t and help your daughter to think through this for the discussions that might come up with friends who are. If you need some help talking, check out the two blogs that I wrote to help you out.
3. Leave a comment here telling me where you linked the letter so we can check it out, and what you and your daughter decided about your family’s point of action.

A winner for our entire Secret Keeper Girl line-up including two mother/daughter date kits, four fiction books, a Bible study and a t-shirt will be randomly selected on June 17th. Check back to see who our winner is.