Let’s Talk about Sex :: Mary Flo Ridley and Megan Michelson [Ep 328]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
You asked and I’m so happy to have Mary Flo Ridley and Megan Michelson back to coach us on how to talk with our kids about the topic of sex. I love their approach which is explained in their online course called Birds and Bees. It’s all about having multiple conversations over the years with your kids instead of having one big TALK when they are older.
“What we want parents to do with the topic of sex is to not be afraid and be silenced, but to be equipped and have tools and phrases to say an age appropriate ways … They're drip by drip, by drip conversations, because it takes a lot for them to absorb this information.”
Mary Flo and Megan take us through reasons why we should have conversations with our youngest kids about reproduction, birth and specific scientific terms for private areas. We chat about how to bring these topics up and answer questions that might make you nervous at first. It’s all about giving your kids accurate and honest information on this important topic.
“I know when parents first hear about this they think, ‘I didn't want to talk to my kids about sex one time, why in the world, but I want to do this multiple times?’ But it's just so much easier to do it in bite size, age-appropriate phrases and conversations and soundbites because that's how things are digested and absorbed.”
Connect with Birds & Bees:
- Website: https://birds-bees.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/birdsbeeshelpplease
- Instagram: @birds__bees
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Previous Podcasts with Birds & Bees:
- Ep 25: Birds and Bees? Oh, help me please :: Mary Flo Ridley
- BONUS: When to Have “The Talk” :: Mary Flo Ridley
- Ep. 153 Birds and Bees (Continuing the Conversation) :: Mary Flo Ridley and Megan Michelson
- Ep 243: Preparing Now for Future Puberty and Masturbation Questions :: Megan Michelson and Mary Flo Ridley
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Lomelown podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm your host, Heather McVadian, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you |
| 0:14.7 | and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:21.2 | And this episode number 328, I get to bring back on the show, listener favorites, Mary |
| 0:27.2 | Flavridley and Megan Michaelson to help us talk to our kids about the topic of sex. |
| 0:34.0 | I think that a phrase that we've started saying recently and I really love it is that we |
| 0:40.2 | should not equate innocence with ignorance. |
| 0:44.8 | A lot of times parents will say, I just don't want to take away their innocence. |
| 0:49.8 | And that's, nobody wants that. |
| 0:52.0 | We don't want that. |
| 0:53.4 | What we're trying to do is protect their innocence with the beauty of God's design. |
| 0:58.9 | We want to protect their innocence by showing them the beautiful way that this was all intended |
| 1:03.6 | to be. |
| 1:04.7 | And that is what will protect them, not knowing anything. |
| 1:08.4 | Not ignorance. |
| 1:10.4 | So I think that's been something that has kind of resonated in our hearts recently, is |
| 1:16.1 | just to take away that fear that they're not going to be innocent anymore. |
| 1:19.9 | They're actually going to be protected. |
| 1:21.7 | Their innocence will be protected. |
| 1:23.6 | Innocence is more of a frame of mind, not a lack of knowledge. |
| 1:28.0 | Mary Flavridley and Megan have been on the show several times before and we put all those |
| 1:31.8 | links in the show notes and they've presented their birds and bees curriculum, which is now |
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