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Yeah, safe guards is meaning I'm putting up protective measures to help my kids to protect them. I can't keep them from every danger in the world nor should I.

That's when we try to control our children, but I can put up safe guards to help them, to shield them from some of the darts that will be thrown their way while also equipping them to know how to protect themselves.

That's Julie Low and she's our guest today on Focus on the Family. Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

As a parent, you have a really important job. The lords entrusted you with one or more little ones and you're going to be raising them and probably in the midst of it right now.

And as they grow and develop into young men and women, you know, the stakes get a little higher. Teenage parenting is a little different from three, four year old, isn't it?

Absolutely. Yes.

You know, in the New Testament book of Matthew chapter 10 verse 6, Jesus tells us, behold, I'm sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. So be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

And those words certainly are true for parents. We're trying to nurture our children, love our children, teach our children how to live close to the Lord and also in a world that is ready to rip them apart in so many ways.

So what are we going to do? You know, wrap them in bubble wrap or, you know, expose them and let them begin to understand what life's about that it's not always going to be perfect today.

We want to help you teach your children how to live not bubble wrap safeguard lives, but how to trust the Lord and move forward in the Lord even in difficulty.

And Julie Low is a faculty member and licensed counselor at Christian counseling and educational foundation. She's captured a lot of great information in her book, Safeguard, shielding our homes and equipping our kids.

We've got details about that book and more information about Julie and what she does at our website of the link is in the show notes.

Julie, welcome back to the ministry. It's good to have you here.

Thanks for having me.

Let's kick it off. As a counselor, you're working with lots of families. You're hearing from lots of folks. You're in Philadelphia.

And I'm sure you get a smattering of topics coming at you. What are the top two or three that you're dealing with that the culture's dealing with really?

Well, in the family life, you see a lot of the issues of technology, sexting, addiction to screens, things like that. You see a lot of struggles with gender and sexuality.

And just a lot of exposure to pornography these days.

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