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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Preparing Your Kids For the Teen Years (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Focus on the Family Vice President of Parenting and Youth Danny Huerta and popular author Jessie Minassian offer parents practical advice for teaching their kids about sex, puberty, and the many changes they'll experience during their teen years. (Part 1 of 2)

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.2

today. I'm John Fuller and today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daley we'll

0:35.4

examine one of the more challenging responsibilities of parenthood having the

0:39.9

talk with your children. And of course this program is not going to be suitable

0:44.3

for younger listeners. Well I was amazed how incredibly completely shocked my

0:50.2

kids were when I explained what sex was all about. My daughter is the only one

0:55.4

to reach that age and I let the wife do that discussion. Now I don't have kids

1:01.6

of my own yet but going through the sex ed process in middle school was

1:05.4

horrifying. I actually forged my parent's signature on these take home talk

1:10.2

about it with your parents things so I wouldn't have to. As far as sex

1:13.4

education in our home at one all right with me and the girls but my husband I

1:16.8

had to push him a little bit in fact I dropped him off in the middle of the

1:19.4

forest with a bible and the facts of life book and told him I'd be back in a

1:22.5

couple of hours so that he couldn't run away. There you got some interesting

1:28.4

input there John. Hey I'll tell you though having that talk can be intimidating

1:32.8

for us as parents especially if you didn't have you know parents who did it for

1:37.2

you right and had that discussion. I remember one of my boys I will not

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