What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "May children see their parents naked?"
Answer
The provided documents contain no explicit statement regarding whether children may see their parents naked. However, the writings emphatically stress that parents should model and teach their children purity, holiness, and modesty from the earliest childhood. A restrained way of life, the preservation of a holy reserve, as well as purity in thought and surroundings are regarded as crucial for the moral development of the children.
Lessons on Purity from Childhood
»Children should be taught lessons of purity from their childhood. Mothers cannot begin early enough to fill their children's minds with pure, holy thoughts. And one way to do this is to keep everything around them clean and pure. Mothers, if you desire your children's thoughts to be pure, keep their surroundings pure.«
Education in Restraint and Modesty
»Parents should feel the importance of greater care in the proper upbringing of their children. They should teach them to act with restraint and modesty. [...] Satan leads them to become a proverb in the mouths of the unbelievers because of their boldness, lack of reserve, and the absence of feminine modesty.«
The Importance of Decency and Respect
»You cannot afford to lose the respect of your children. [...] The mother who wears torn, untidy clothing, who thinks any dress is good enough for household use, no matter how dirty or worn it may be, gives her children an example that encourages untidiness. Moreover, she loses her influence over them.«
Protection through Holy Restraint
»Chaste simplicity in dress, when coupled with modest demeanor, will greatly help surround a young woman with that atmosphere of holy reserve, which will serve as a shield against a thousand dangers for her.«
Original Sources (English)
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