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Parenting our kids around sexual realities can feel overwhelming (and scary, if you’re anything like me!)

Well, I hope today’s conversation with Luke Gilkerson, an expert on the topic, will allow you to breathe a sigh of relief as we learn the fundamentals of raising sexually healthy kids.

God gives a lot of insight for us to follow through the Bible and Luke shares with us research that has proven these understandings. If you know young people or are a parent, this episode is not to be missed. You can play a vital, life-saving role in their lives, listen to find out how.

Find out more about Luke Gilkerson at intoxicatedonlife.com

You’ll Discover:

• How to not feel overwhelmed with the prospect of sharing appropriately with your kids the truth around sex.
• How to talk about your own experiences and allow them to dialogue in a way that will steward them later.
• The specific ages kids can developmentally handle specific conversations about sex.
• How to be equipped to answer the questions your kids will have.

Resources:

• My previous 3-part conversation with Luke:

  • DYM Ep39: Should Children Masturbate? with Luke Gilkerson

  • DYM Ep40: The Fight Of A Real Man

  • & DYM Ep41: Is Sex A Need Or A Desire? with Luke Gilkerson

• Luke’s articles we referenced:

  • Moms and Sex Ed: 7 Tips for Teaching Young Boys

  • Teaching Your Kids About Sex When You Have Sexual Sin in Your Past

• Luke’s books featuring scripts on how to approach topics with your kids
  • The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality
  • Changes: 7 Biblical Lessons to Make Sense of Puberty

• Delight Your Husband Course, my course, Belah Rose
  • To bring you from a woman who may have feelings of shame or embarrassment around her sexuality and thus cannot engage her kids healthily in this conversation because of this.
  • Well here’s the opportunity to discover God’s truth and enjoy sex as a confident, fierce woman…(not just for you, but even for the good of your kids!)
  • Watch the first video for free, here! (Scroll down to the bottom.)

Scripture:

• Romans 12:21
  • Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
• Proverbs 6:20-22
  • My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
  • Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.
  • When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

Tweetables:

• Embody delight in your marriage and sexualty to model what healthy relationship looks like.
• Innocence is a function of attitude not information.
• Talking about sex in the context of your values does not provoke your kids to seek it out in the wrong ways.

Thanks for listening! I hope you are encouraged to live in wholehearted intimacy!

Love,

Belah

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