My son is getting way too out of control. He’s 16 years old. He likes to play video games, listen to a lot of weird “rock” music and one day I even caught him masturbating while looking at a porn magazine. It’s tough because we are a conservative Christian family.

I’ve tried to educate my son into me and my wife’s ways. We have limited the amount of video games he plays up to an hour a day, two hours on weekends. He’s not allowed to play any games above an E rating, and failure to comply with these rules will result in the Xbox being taken away for a month, as well as his privileges of seeing his friends. He’s also required to attend “movie time”. Every Friday night at 9:00, the whole family, including him, are to gather in the living room for a movie together. Violent movies are also a no-no in our house, and so all our movies are family friendly movies that we can all watch together. TV shows work the same way and we use the V-Chip in our house to prevent our kids watching shows with vulgar content.

We also do not allow our kids to have smartphones (my wife and I have iPhones because we need them for work) but we let them have basic Jitterbug flip phones so they can call and text us and we do not allow them to call or message anyone outside of the family. Randomly once a week we require our children to hand over their cellphones to us so we can check them and make sure they aren’t doing anything inappropriate.

My son is to be home by 7:30 everyday and he is not allowed to move out and date until he is 25.

Every night, we order our kids into my wife and I’s room and we all kneel down on the bed in a row and pray. I am a firm believer of God and I thank him for helping my family maintain a good life and may he deserve the utmost respect.

I’m telling you all this because I want to show that I do make an effort to help my son maintain a healthy life. What else can I do for my son to teach him in the ways of the light and put him on the right path?