MPF 296: Talking to Your Kids About Sex - an Interview with Jason Evert

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The body is not meaningless, but meaningful - Jason Evert

Summary

Join us for this insightful conversation with Jason Evert, speaker and author. Jason has spoken all over the world and has created numerous resources for preteens and teens to dive deep into what it means to be free to love. Often parents feel under-equipped to talk about sex and chastity, but it is within the home that these lessons need to be learned and it is where they are taught most effectively. The first step is to communicate to your children how much you delight in them. Then we can speak to their hearts the truth of who they are. After that, we can teach them that by embracing the virtue of chastity we can truly be free to love others with a love like God’s. Jason’s new series for preteens, Envision, can be found at Ascension Press.

Key Takeaways

We can’t just tell our kids what NOT to do, but we must communicate that chastity gives them freedom. Chastity gives them the freedom to love.
Knowing the theology of our bodies answers the question, “Who am I and how should I live?”
The world tells our kids that their bodies are meaningless, but in reality, they are meaningful. What we do with our bodies matters.
Rules without relationships breed rebellion. Most of our kids know we love them, but do they believe we like them? That we like being with them? That is the foundation that needs to be laid to form them.

Couple Discussion Questions

How are we communicating to our kids now that what they do with their bodies matters?

What are some ways we can show our kids not just that we LOVE them but that we LIKE them too?
Do we understand the importance of Theology of the Body? Is this something we need to look into more?

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0:00.0	Family, all in this together.
0:08.2	Family, we're taking a chance.
0:10.8	Family, like birds of a feather.
0:13.3	Family, get off my shoes and dance.
0:15.4	Hey, we are Mike and Alicia Hernin.
0:17.4	We have 10 kids and grandkids too, and we are here for every parent. Because we are on a
0:22.2	mission to empower moms and dads to embrace their sacred calling. So join the conversation.
0:28.0	Welcome to the messy family podcast. Today is a topic that I think can be uncomfortable for a lot of parents.
0:39.5	And we want to open up with somebody who I consider probably the world's greatest expert on
0:45.3	this topic. That's really going to help parents navigate a challenging time as you talk about
0:52.0	sex and relationships and everything else with your kids.
0:56.6	Right. And I think that I think that so often the reason that we are uncomfortable
1:02.7	talking about talking to our kids about sex or all of those kinds of things or how they
1:09.1	how they express it with their bodies, love and all of those
1:12.5	things is because we have we have a problem with it ourselves. It's not just talking, you know,
1:19.6	the more comfortable you are with yourself. I was uncomfortable thinking about this. The more
1:24.2	comfortable you are with yourself and the more that you know who you are as a son or
1:31.6	daughter of God and how chastity, the role of chastity in your own lives or the even loving
1:36.8	yourself when you were your child's age. Yes. I think that the more that you are in that
1:42.5	healthy place, the easier it is to talk about this.
1:46.0	And so I think that that's, it's good. This is such a great topic to talk about because parents
1:49.7	need to be thinking about these things and not be caught blindsided, you know, but kind of like
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