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How to Create a Healthy Sexual Legacy for your Children

November 20, 2015 by BeFreeAdmin Leave a Comment

A healthy sexual legacy is a relatively new idea for me. Early in my own recovery process I began to realize the wrong messages I received about sex growing up – messages from my culture, my family and from my peers. I began to understand how that impacted me as an adolescent and as an adult. My wife and I made the decision that we would create a different kind of experience for our five kids and leave a healthier sexual legacy for them.

Creating a healthy sexual legacy for your kids is critical to their spiritual, emotional and physical health. It’s not easy but it’s worth the investment.

Talking to Your Kids About Sex

October 6, 2015 by BeFreeAdmin Leave a Comment

In our office we often find ourselves encouraging parents to begin talking to their kids about sex. The response we usually get after making this recommendation is this:

“You want me to do what?”

Any adult would agree that sexuality is a very important part of being human. Reflecting on our sexuality can bring about a wide variety of emotions including anxiety, embarrassment, hurt, guilt, joy, contentment and pleasure.

Talking to your kids about sex can also bring this smorgasbord of emotions. Depending on our past experiences and our current attitudes toward sex and our own sexuality, this can make talking to your kids about sex a natural or, as in most cases, a not-so-natural experience. Therefore, the “birds and the bees” talk is often put off as long as possible.

Why should I be talking to my kids about sex?

Talking to Kids about Sex