The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality Paperback – July 28, 2014

I have maybe only done 1 other review on Amazon, but I had to leave a review on this book! Especially since I knew there would be moms like me that would love to hear about products with a Christian perspective that would help us as we raise our kids (especially regarding sensitive topics) , so here I go...Recently my 8 year old daughter started asking me questions that I knew would inevitability lead us to "the talk", you know..."the birds and the bee's talk!" While I still see her as a little girl (and deep down always wish she would stay that way), I knew I had to take the initiative and introduce these topics to her before some other school friend does, and I am left undoing bad information! So I began researching and asking friends what kind of books/resources they might have used to help!I knew that when I had the talk with my mom is was clear that she was embarrassed and that it was a taboo subject, which inevitably communicated to me to not ask her anything about it again. While my husband mentioned that his father began the talk by saying "this is just the beginning of an ongoing conversation..."!!! So, that is what I was looking for...something that was Christian based, something that helped not make it embarrassing or taboo, and something that communicated that this was "just the beginning of an ongoing conversation."To my huge delight, I came across "The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality" which checked ALL the boxes AND MORE!!! Not only did it approach the topic the way I had hoped but it was designed so that you and your child's focus is on how AMAZING God is and his design for us! The book is written as a devotional to be read through over 7 different days/nights with your child, and it is also written as a script for the parent so that they feel comfortable walking the child through the topics. It covers why & how God created males and females, how babies are made & develop inside the womb (with links to the most amazing videos), the importance of marriage & their bodies, as well as much more. There are also videos for just the adults! The videos are the authors talking directly to the parents as to how they can go about covering each topic. They also go more in depth and even help with ways you can address topics such as Homosexuality, Transgenderism, Pornography, Abortion, etc. They do a great job addressing these topics in a very quick and biblical way, not coming across political or judgmental, and always stressing God's commandment to love one another!I have already began this devotional with my daughter and it is amazing!!! When I was first going through it on my own, I would get so excited to share stuff with my husband. Of course you can imagine how funny he thought that was, but after he started going through it with me, he was excited to think about starting the devotional with our son!

This book helps parents break the ice, not crack it or dance around the subject, and begins to lay a biblical foundation in regards to sexuality. It first starts with an introduction for the parents and helps them determine if their children are ready for this study. The author recommends ages 6-10 (Page 2 explains why the seemingly young age is recommended, using child abuse statistics to back his reasoning and why parents should be having these conversations with their children.) The author continues on to help parents who might struggle with the fear of saying too much, swallowing their fear, and explaining that this is just the first of many conversations.Each lesson has scripture reading associated with the lesson and ends with questions and prayer.-Lesson 1 covers anatomy providing male and female anatomy diagrams from a side angle.-Lesson 2 discusses basic intercourse and how babies are conceived, mentioning terms such as erection and ejaculation.-Lesson 3 teaches how a baby grows in the womb including diagrams.-Lesson 4 discusses the goodness of sex in marriage and the bond formed between and man and a woman.-Lesson 5 provides a biblical understanding of why adultery is wrong.-Lesson 6 covers the extremely difficult topic of rape and sexual abuse.-Lesson 7 explains the importance of honoring God with our body.The last part of the book discusses what parents can do next to build on what was taught.Even though we bought this book a couple years ago, after reading the introduction to the parents, we decided to wait until both of our children be taught together and a little more mature for the content, which worked for our household needs. We replaced our usual morning devotional before starting our homeschool day and covered this material during the week we were off from school so we weren't rushed for time.Though some of the material can be a little embarrassing to cover we made sure not to water it down because we felt it was important to the lessons being taught.It helped that I could just open to the lesson for the day and just read the material presented. It was a great introduction since we hadn't really discussed sex before in this kind of detail and I wouldn't have known where to even begin. We already have the next book in The Talk series, Changes, and will be purchasing the last one, Relationships, at a later date.

This is great!! Very informative! My parents made this talk very tabo and uncomfortable. I decided that wasn’t going to be the case for my kids. We approached the topic as a god created this beautiful thing for married couples and it’s a good thing. Highly recommend it!

I just got done reading this through with my 9 year old daughter. I have been dreading this conversation, but I knew with her going into 4th grade it was time. I learned about sex in 4th grade from other kids, so you can imagine it was very skewed. I wanted my daughter to hear it from me first in a biblical manner! This study covers everything from the sexual act, babies, adultery and sexual abuse. It gives all the scientific, anatomic terms, and is very straight to the point, BUT it explains TRUTH and the way God intended it to be, with scriptures backing it all up. She of course was shocked to hear it all, but she really understood, and handled it all in a very mature way. I also feel it opened up a direct line of communication for us. Parents don't skip on this study, and/or conversation! Especially in this day when the world has perverted sex, and is teaching our children lies!