Hey everybody, good morning! This is Heidi St. John and you have found me at my little corner of the

Internet. Welcome to the Busy Mom Podcast. Today is Monday, March 5th and today we're going to

tackle the topic of talking to your children about sex. If your knees are not going to

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In the hopper. So we're excited to be answering your questions over here and today we're going to talk a little bit about how to talk to your kids about sex.

This is a question I get periodically over here and usually moms, they come at it from a lot of different aspects. This mom, in particular,

saying, my child is approaching puberty and sex talks and in parenthesis, she wrote, help me. So I love your honesty.

She said, do you have any resources that you recommend? And so I thought, first of all, I'm going to answer the question and there's another, another question to mom wrote Dear Heidi.

I have a child who's seven years old and she's asking me about her body. What should I do? So here, there's a mom who's asking me about a daughter who's approaching puberty and a daughter who is seven years old and is just curious about her own body and her own sexuality.

And so I thought, well, let's just take the time for this podcast and we'll talk about it a little bit because obviously there are two different ways that you want to approach us.

But I thought, you know what? I'm going to have you guys. If you get a pencil, I can put a list, just three or four things that I want to encourage you that kind of works for every age child, especially if you are a younger mom.

This is definitely going to apply to you, but here's point number one. All right, whenever we talk about sex, the first thing we want to do is we want to share God's heart toward it.

We want to talk about God's heart toward sex because God made us. And so we know that when God made us and he made us as sexual beings, he said that it was good.

It's good. It's the world that messes it up. And so often on the podcast and certainly this was true last week when we talked about some of these questions, we can easily focus on the negative aspects of human sexuality that are so prevalent in the news today and even prevalent in the church as we embrace things that God says are wrong.

But God's heart toward sex is actually really good. It was his good idea. He said, this is awesome. I'm going to make it. I'm going to make them so that they can enjoy each other.

Physically so that sex is a good thing and also it's designed for marriage. Those two things need to be, I think the first things that we point out when we talk to our kids about sex, a it's God's good idea. It's good and be it's meant for marriage. And I think so often we become confused about what to say about sex and how to talk to our kids about sex.

But if we can start with that premise that it's good. It's the world who the world is what kind of messes it up, but not kind of the world is what does mess it up. But God said his heart toward sex is good and that it was made for marriage.

The second thing I really want to encourage you to do is to answer the questions that your kids ask you when they ask them.

So this is where I think we kind of trip up sometimes, right? Can we just be honest? Because we get a little nervous and we're not sure when to have the conversation or kids ask us these questions. I know that I got asked a lot about sex when I was pregnant.

And I was pregnant a lot.

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