Parents, grandparents, and mentors often wonder about how and when to initiate “the sex talk” with children.  This can be a difficult issue because many of us feel ill-equipped to do this and because our sex-saturated culture does not really understand sex.  This class aims at providing parents, grandparents, and mentors with both confidence and practical guidance in talking to children about human sexuality.  Before “the sex talk” takes place, we need to have a Christian understanding of the human person, created in the image of God, and possessing a soul and a body, the body being the expression of the soul.  Once this understanding is in place, we can begin to think about sex not simply in terms of biology but also in terms of God’s design for us as male and female.

Resource book: Before the Sex Talk: A Theology of the Body Approach for Parents and Mentors by Linda Noble and Linda Stewart.