Raising a G-Rated Family in an X-Rated World

"Children want nice parents as much as parents want nice children."
Brent & Phelecia Hatch

The basic unit of our society, the family, is disintegrating. With attacks on traditional families and the pressures to keep up with others and fit in, our families are struggling to stay intact. These forces in combination with the many misconceptions and distortions of reality our children are constantly bombarded with have led to a massive amount of homes and families being torn apart. Raising a G-Rated Family in an X-Rated World is a timely book to help parents teach their children correct principles and to stand for goodness and high morals among the deteriorating world that surrounds them.

Raising a G-Rated Family in an X-Rated World provides very practical advice and reminders for parents that are both desperately needed and sometimes forgotten. The book challenges parents to spend more time with their children, making them the highest priority in our lives. Additionally, the book reminds us as parents that we are our children’s best role models and teachers and that we cannot depend on others to teach our children our values.

Unfortunately, the book does not give us a quick and easy way to raise our children but on the contrary it often reminds us that raising good children is time consuming—requiring a lot of patience and hard work. However, the book does provide great and simple strategies and tools on how to improve and strengthen our family relationships and open the lines of communication between parent and child. It also offers excellent ways for parents to better teach their children to ensure they know we love and care about them as their parents. Simple ideas such as a “Family Report Card” and “The Band-Aid Magnet” are a few examples of the many strategies the book offers that can really help our families trust, care, and love each other.

The book also warns against the dangers of the media in our homes and provides practical strategies on how we can protect our children from outside influences that are not in line with our own family values. Having a strategy is extremely important in ensuring our children know the difference between right and wrong. The book also offers advice on many important topics for parents from discipline to unconditional love, to self-esteem, teaching values and helping with homework.

I believe raising children in today’s world is tough but vitally important. I can’t think of any higher responsibility on this earth than to teach our children good morals and correct principles. Parents need to seek good help such as the assistance this book provides to aid them in appropriately leading and guiding their children to success and happiness in life. As we teach correct principles and values in our homes, our children will carry on the tradition, passing what they’ve learned on to our grandchildren and great grandchildren. This will provide shining examples of hope in a world that so desperately needs them. If you’re a parent, please take the time to read this book.