• Heartprints

    Sexting, We Need To Have a Talk

      This morning as I turned on the news, I heard a story about a 13-year-old girl being charged with child pornography. The young girl had taken two pictures of herself. One was in her sports bra and the other was without her sports bra – but with her hair covering what the bra had covered. I was struck with sadness—sadness that she felt the need to sexualize herself and send a suggestive picture—sadness that she was growing up so fast and seemingly unknowingly. However, this wasn’t even the worst of the story.  This 13-year-old child, not knowing the danger she was putting herself in, was being put into the…