TALKING TO TEENS ABOUT SEX

Your kids are creeping toward adulthood. It’s not time to dial back the real discussion of their real questions.

As their world and dilemmas tremendously increase in sexual complexity, make sure you’re having all the conversations that matter.

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Younger Kids | Sexual Wholeness | FamilyLife® | Being Intentional with your Kids

with Jessica Thompson, Joel Fitzpatrick
April 8, 2019

Siblings Jessica Thompson and Joel Fitzpatrick, both married with children, know the challenge parents face of talking to our kids about sex.

FamilyLife® | FamilyLife Today

with Beth Robinson, Latayne Scott
January 5, 2022

What God’s perspective of sexuality is: Place emphasis on Sexuality being holy, intimate and important- let them know God has a plan for them and their sexuality.

FamilyLife® | FamilyLife Today

with Beth Robinson, Latayne Scott

January 4, 2022

What to do if your child is struggling with their sexuality? From puberty to around 25 connections in the brain are still forming, making new connections.

FamilyLife® | FamilyLife Today

with Beth Robinson, Latayne Scott

January 3, 2022

Wondering how to start being open with your kids about sexuality from an early age? Start asking simple questions about what your kids are experiencing in their lives.

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Recently, a mom brought her 14-year-old daughter into my (Freda) Ob/Gyn clinic after just finding out that the girl was sexually active.

The sex talk and gender conversations in your home don’t have to be big, awkward productions. But they do need to happen. The sooner the better.

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Teens | Sexual Wholeness | FamilyLife® | Talking With Teens About Sexuality

by Beth Robinson, Latayne Scott

Today’s culture is filled with sexual identity confusion, ubiquitous pornography, and the dissociation of sex from relationships. A healthy sexual identity requires more than just a list of what not to do.

Teens | Sexual Wholeness | FamilyLife® | Chasing Love

by Sean McDowell

The music we listen to, the movies we watch—they’re all telling us to keep chasing love, and that we’ll finally be happy when we find it. But is love really all we need?

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Being a parent today is hard.  Axis connects parents, teens, and Jesus in a disconnected world. They invite you to learn more about how to have better conversations that last a lifetime.

If you were to ask most millennials or Gen Xers if their parents sat them down to talk to them about dating and sex, their answer would be no.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

In short, if ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to look at your phone.

In his book The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explores the consequences of our culture offering us so many choices in every part of our lives.

If we don’t disciple our kids about sexuality, porn will do it for us.

This Parent Guide may shock you. Actually, we hope it does. Not because we’re trying to be crude or gross, but because we believe that Gen Z needs your honesty more than you know.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

We do not live in a modest age, and some say that’s a good thing. Talk of modesty is outmoded, old-fashioned, perhaps anti-woman, shaming, and above all LAME.

The secret of my identity is hidden in the love and mercy of God… Therefore I cannot hope to find myself anywhere except in him…

Sixth, seventh grade is when people started sending nudes. The popular girls would send them to the popular guys…