Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the

word, prayers, in our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Continuing on in our parenting month,

and in particular this week of the real-life, nitty-gritty, hard parenting stuff. Hard on the kids,

too, by the way. We're

talking dating and heartbreak today. Some of you single 20-somethings may also want to listen in

because it's a current situation for you, too. Oh goodness, it's so hard to have relationships

and get our heartbroken, isn't it? And these kids maneuvering all this, we need Jesus help. So let's talk about it in just a

minute. So I need to make this disclaimer right off the top, and that is that my kids are not

big daters. As a matter of fact, they haven't really dated much at all, which I think on one hand

is a good thing in the sense that I

think our culture is far too consumed with kids being in a relationship at an early age.

It's just too much too soon, in my opinion. And quite honestly, parents, we're a factor in this.

We encourage these dating relationships with middle school kids and even elementary school kids.

It blows my mind.

And I just think it's another symptom of how we are following the trends of society and making

our kids grow up too quick. I'm not a fan. But I do understand that we have natural attractions

to each other, even at young ages, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I also think as kids get into upper high school and such, it's good to go out some with

each other to get a sense for what we want and what we don't want and in a mate later on,

if we end up getting married, discover what we're looking for, down the road, and get

a little bit of experience.

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