Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World: A Gospel-Centered Approach
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Overview
How can you raise your children to not just to survive but to thrive in a world filled with complex and confusing conversations about gender, sexuality, and relationships?
Navigating the birds and bees is challenging enough for parents. Kids today are faced with all sorts of complex issues, and often at a very early age. When is it too early to talk about sex? How can we begin to view the gender conversation? How do we help our kids not to approach the world fearfully but to walk into it confidently--even in the world’s most controversial spaces?
Laurie and Matt Krieg believe that, as a Christian parent, you can approach sexual topics with confidence and grace by laying a solid gospel-centered foundationfrom early childhood onward. Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World offers you theological guidance, parenting principles, and age-appropriate insights for addressing complex issues in healthy ways: issues like marriage and singleness, God’s design for sex, same-sex attraction and sexual orientation, gender identity, sexual abuse, and pornography.
In Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World, you’ll learn to:
- Present God’s purpose forboth marriage and singlenesss
- Explain God’s design for sex with claritys
- Discuss gender identity from a biblical perspectives
- Protect your children from sexual abuses
- Prevent porn addictions
- Promote online safeguards
Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World is a timely and essential resource for today’s Christian parents. Rather than retreating in fear, you can respond to the brokenness of the world with the goodness, truth, and beauty of the gospel and help your kids to do the same. Cast a gospel vision for your kids so that no matter how they experience sexual brokenness within them or around them, they have the tools they need to choose the way of Jesus no matter what.
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- Offers a paradigm shift for parents who feel overwhelmed by the current cultural landscape.
- Proposes that sexual wisdom is built on the foundation of a robust, “Gospel-centered” identity.
- Focuses on nurturing a “judgment-free zone”, ensuring that children run to their parents (not from them) when they encounter sexual brokenness.
- Introduction
- The Gospel: Lay the Foundation
- The Gospel: Walk the Foundation
- Marriage and Singleness: Lay the Foundation
- Marriage and Singleness: Walk the Foundation
- Gender: Lay the Foundation
- Gender: Walk the Foundation
- God’s Design for Sex: Lay the Foundation
- God’s Design for Sex: Walk the Foundation
- Honor Our Bodies: Lay the Foundation
- Honor Our Bodies: Walk the Foundation
- Honor God with Our Minds: Lay the Foundation
- Honor God with Our Minds: Walk the Foundation
- Conclusion
- Next Step Resources
- Appendix A: How to Talk with Kids Between Ages Seven and Ten About Sex
- Appendix B: What If We Suspect Something Sexually Abusive Has Happened to Our Kids?
- Appendix C: Where Should I Send My Kids to School?
As licensed mental health therapists and parents, we’ve seen firsthand how essential it is to engage our children in honest and hopeful conversations about bodies, desires, and identity—conversations many of us would rather avoid due to our own unresolved stories and the complex cultural narratives we navigate. Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World offers a lifeline for those of us seeking thoughtful ways to begin. With practical tools and gospel-centered insight, Laurie and Matt Krieg show how to transform moments of uncertainty into sacred opportunities for growth—both for parents and children. Their wise guidance equips you with the language you need to approach these conversations with clarity, courage, and grace.
—Jay Stringer, licensed mental health therapist and author of Unwanted and Desire, and
—Heather Stringer, licensed mental health therapist and author of Life in Ritual
With wisdom, humility, gentleness, and the proper confidence of those who knows their subject and the fraught landscape it can sometimes bring, Laurie and Matt Krieg have, with Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World, offered their readers a book that we ought not simply read. Rather, we would do well to meditate upon it, carefully and with the same humility with which it has been penned. For all of us who long for our offspring to joyfully follow Jesus, this is a book that is no mere manual about children and sexuality; it is an invitation to partnering with God as he forms them into the image of the King.
—Curt Thompson, psychiatrist and author of The Soul of Desire and The Deepest Place
Laurie and Matt Krieg offer a rich, biblical framework for parents navigating the complicated terrain of talking about sexuality with children. The Kriegs provide a breadth of wisdom from their own parenting journey and incorporate key insights from psychology, all the while helping parents feel more effective and less alone. There is no shortage of parenting books available today, but Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World is one that sifts through the noise and offers concrete, practical guidance and modeling of critical conversations around human sexuality.
—Julia Sadusky, licensed clinical psychologist and author of Start Talking to Your Kids about Sex: A Practical Guide for Catholics
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