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How and When To Tell Your Kids About Sex

How and When To Tell Your Kids About Sex. A Lifelong Approach To Shaping Your Child’s Sexual Character. Discussion. Share your name with those around you. What are some goals parents often have for the sex education of their children?. Part One:. Foundations. Getting the Big Picture.

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How and When To Tell Your Kids About Sex

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  1. How and When To Tell Your Kids About Sex A Lifelong Approach To Shaping Your Child’s Sexual Character

  2. Discussion • Share your name with those around you. • What are some goals parents often have for the sex education of their children?

  3. Part One: Foundations

  4. Getting the Big Picture • Primary Goal of Christian Parenting • to equip and empower our children to enter adulthood capable of living godly, wholesome, and fulfilled lives as Christian men and women, Christian wives and husbands.

  5. Sex Education Goal for Christian Parents • to prepare them to become the kinds of adults who can have deep and meaningful marriages filled with spiritual, sexual, and emotional intimacy, and who can have loving and deep family relationships and friendships.

  6. How Do we achieve our goal?

  7. Deuteronomy 6:1-9 (NLT) • Deuteronomy 6:1-9 (NLT)1 “These are the commands, decrees, and regulations that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you. You must obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy, 2 and you and your children and grandchildren must fear the Lord your God as long as you live. If you obey all his decrees and commands, you will enjoy a long life.

  8. Deuteronomy 6:1-9 (NLT) • 3 Listen closely, Israel, and be careful to obey. Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children in the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

  9. Deuteronomy 6:1-9 (NLT) • 4 “Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. 5 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. 6 And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today.

  10. Deuteronomy 6:1-9 (NLT) • 7 Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. 8 Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. 9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

  11. The Benefits of Following God • Prosper in Marriage • Prosper in Pleasing God • Prosper in Obedience

  12. Twelve Guiding Principles for Christian Sex Education

  13. Sex education is the shaping of character. Principle 1:

  14. Parents are the principle sex educators. Principle 2:

  15. First messages are the most potent. Principle 3:

  16. We should seize those “teachable moments” and become “askable” parents. Principle 4:

  17. Stories are powerful teaching tools. Principle 5:

  18. Accurate and explicit messages are best. Principle 6:

  19. Positive messages are powerful. Principle 7:

  20. You can and must “inoculate” your children against negative beliefs. Principle 8:

  21. Repetition is critical; repetition is really, really important. Principle 9:

  22. Close, positive parent-child relationships are crucial. Principle 10:

  23. Sexuality is not everything; keep your perspective. Principle 11:

  24. Our God can forgive, heal, and redeem anything. Principle 12:

  25. The Challenge

  26. Facing The Realities

  27. Sexual Intercourse

  28. Oral sex • An additional 10-14% of young men engage in oral sex • An additional 8-15% of young women engage in oral sex • Big question among teens – • “Is oral sex really sex?”

  29. Anal sex • 11% of 15-19 year old girls and guys • 32% of 20-24 year old males • 30% of 20-24 year old females

  30. Same Sex Activity • 4.5% of 15-19 males have had a same-sex experience in their lifetime • 10.6% of 15-19 females have had a same-sex experience in their lifetime

  31. Teen Pregnancy • Over one million teen pregnancies a year • 1 in 5 girls who has sex gets pregnant • 250,000 teen pregnancies result in abortion

  32. Sexually Transmitted Diseases • 9.5 million new cases annually among 15-24 year olds • Three most common STD’s • HPV (human papilomavirus) • Chlamydia • Trichomoniasis

  33. Who Are Our Allies • The Media? No • The Internet? No • Secular Sex Education? Sometimes, But Not Often • The Church? Yes, But Much Remains to Be Done • Parents and Churches Together

  34. What If I Get Started Late? • Start Now! • Assess Your Relationship Honestly • Assess Your Child’s Faith • Pray For Your Children

  35. Join the Revolution

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