Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Christian Walker entitled

How and How Not to Talk to Your Kids About Sexuality.

Christian and her husband Andrew co-authored the book, What Do I Say When?

A Parents Guide to Navigating Cultural Chaos for Children children and teens from Crossway.

How and how not to talk with your kids about sexuality, written and read by Christian Walker.

Everyone can remember when they first learned of the so-called birds and bees. You know what we're talking about, how you learned what sex was. Some reading this can recall a helpful experience where your parents did this well. Or maybe some recall a particularly cringy and embarrassing moment that is now hard to forget decades later. Some others can remember learning this from a television show

or a tasteless conversation at school. Regardless, everyone remembers the moment when you learned

the unique ways that a male body and a female body can work together to make a baby.

As we think about parenting in this cultural moment, few issues are more urgent and fraught to talk about with your

children than sexuality and sex. This is urgent because if you do not talk about it first,

the culture certainly will. It is fraught because as our culture changes in how it understands

sexuality, it has unhelpfully elevated it to a status that sexuality was never meant to hold, biblically speaking.

The Bible offers us a comprehensive way to think about sex and sexuality in a way that doesn't reduce sexuality's importance,

or make it out to be something more significant than it is.

We cannot escape our sexuality, but neither is sexuality something to

wrap an entire identity around. To that end, below are a few helpful strategies we would suggest

when talking about sex with your children. What to do? Be intentional. The most important thing to be

said about discussing sex with your child is to be intentional about doing so.

Perpetual delay and evasion are not what the Lord calls us to when caring for our children.

Be assured that if you are not planning how and when to bring this up, your children will learn about it elsewhere.

Be positive.

It is common in some Christian corners of the world

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