Thanks to the amazingly successful "Twilight' series, parents struggling with drug-proofing their children and teaching them about sex, now have to add coping with vampires to their list.
How should a parent react to the current fascination with these undead characters that is filling the heads of tweens and teens?
Step one: stay informed.
Sydneyanglicans.net is providing a list of resources aimed at helping the average person understand where the current vampire craze comes from, the messages its major cultural items contain and how parents should be responding…
Vampire philosophy 101
Bite Me
Mark Hadley takes an indepth look at why teens and tweens love the vampires their parents learned to hate.
Vampire culture
The Twilight series
Vampires that are courteous and kind and try to live like humans. Kara Martin introduces us to a series of four books about teenage romance in which sex only occurs in the final book, after marriage! The Twilight series takes the vampire myth and carries it to a different dimension.
Click here to listen to her podcast on the Twilight series.
Follow the links below to read Mark Hadley’s book-by-book reviews of the Twilight series for the issues to look out for:
* Book one: Twilight
* Book two: New Moon
* Book three: Eclipse
* Book four: Breaking Dawn
Click here to read Mark Hadley’s review of The Twilight film saga that will be screening in cinemas over the next three years.
Vampire advice
Counselling would-be vampires
Catriona Corbett gives plain advice to parents wondering how they will deal with this current fascination.
