How to Have Honest Conversations with Your Kids About the Body, Sex, and Desire with Jay Stringer and Heather Stringer
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Parents, this episode is for you! Join Rachael Clinton Chen as she sits down with Jay and Heather Stringer to explore how to talk to your kids about sensitive topics like the body, desire, sex, puberty, and even pornography in ways that are kind and attuned to their needs.
Jay and Heather share the importance of parents first exploring their own stories around sexuality, as unresolved issues or patterns in our own upbringing can impact how we approach these conversations with our children.
In this episode, you’ll find thoughtful discussions on attachment, body image, puberty, sex, and how to navigate challenging subjects like porn and sexting. Instead of having one big, awkward conversation, Jay and Heather suggest having ongoing, age-appropriate chats that feel natural and comfortable.
The aim is to empower your kids to feel confident and informed as they learn about their bodies and desires, all within the safety of a loving and supportive environment.
If you’re looking to change the narrative for your kids around sex and want to create intentional, meaningful conversations, this episode is a great place to start.
Please note that this episode contains discussions of sex and sexual development and may not be suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like you were living a narrative that someone else wrote for you? |
| 0:07.0 | Maybe your story was written by your family, your church, or your culture. |
| 0:12.0 | You may be asking yourself, what is my story, and how does it uniquely fit into the story of the gospel? |
| 0:19.0 | At the Allender Center, we believe that your story reveals God's wild goodness in a way |
| 0:23.9 | that no other story can. |
| 0:26.4 | We've helped thousands of people understand and live their unique stories, and we'd like |
| 0:30.8 | to invite you to start engaging your story with the free guided exercise available for download |
| 0:36.0 | at the Allander Center.org |
| 0:38.2 | slash story. |
| 0:51.7 | Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm Dr. Dan Allender. |
| 0:56.8 | And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen. |
| 0:58.6 | We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world. |
| 1:02.8 | And restoration for the heart. |
| 1:05.3 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:06.6 | Let's get this conversation started. |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you. Let's get this conversation started. I am so deeply grateful to have Heather and Jay Stringer here with me today to provide some |
| 1:23.7 | generous, embodied, and human-sized wisdom on how in the heck we can talk to our kids |
| 1:30.7 | about desire and sex and pornography and these things that we are desperate to be able to provide |
| 1:38.5 | like generous and connective conversation around, but also feel often very ill-equipped and scared to do. |
| 1:48.4 | So let me just say welcome. |
| 1:50.1 | So glad you guys are here. |
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