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My husband and I have this talk a lot. We have a 12 month old and we are also a Christian family. We obviously have a while before he will be going through it but I was severely bullied in school and I want to do all that I can to avoid that for my kids. With that being said, I watched the scary movies, I went and did the same stuff the other kids did. Therefore, I will not budge when it comes to watching certain things, playing certain games... etc. It is hard to hear that your own children are at the bottom so to speak when it comes to the cool factor, and it is hard for little ones to realize that no matter what you have, wear, watch, nothing goes with you in the end. The other kids are absolutely bragin about what they can get away with and what their parents let them do. Encourage the games you have on Wii and the game cube. Play with him and show him that you can have fun too. If you can sort of convince him that what he already has is good enough then it wont matter what the other kids are doing. Search around your church family for same age kids so that he can be surrounded by people with the same morals. The more friends he gets that are like him the less he will worry about the ones that are NOT like him.
Good luck. Everything is way easier said than done. And like I said I have not had to go through it... but I am definitely preparin myself!