MPF 296: Talking to Your Kids About Sex - an Interview with Jason Evert

Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family

The body is not meaningless, but meaningful - Jason Evert

Summary

Join us for this insightful conversation with Jason Evert, speaker and author. Jason has spoken all over the world and has created numerous resources for preteens and teens to dive deep into what it means to be free to love. Often parents feel under-equipped to talk about sex and chastity, but it is within the home that these lessons need to be learned and it is where they are taught most effectively. The first step is to communicate to your children how much you delight in them. Then we can speak to their hearts the truth of who they are. After that, we can teach them that by embracing the virtue of chastity we can truly be free to love others with a love like God’s. Jason’s new series for preteens, Envision, can be found at Ascension Press.

Key Takeaways

• We can’t just tell our kids what NOT to do, but we must communicate that chastity gives them freedom. Chastity gives them the freedom to love.

• Knowing the theology of our bodies answers the question, “Who am I and how should I live?”

• The world tells our kids that their bodies are meaningless, but in reality, they are meaningful. What we do with our bodies matters.

• Rules without relationships breed rebellion. Most of our kids know we love them, but do they believe we like them? That we like being with them? That is the foundation that needs to be laid to form them.

Couple Discussion Questions

• How are we communicating to our kids now that what they do with their bodies matters?

• What are some ways we can show our kids not just that we LOVE them but that we LIKE them too?

• Do we understand the importance of Theology of the Body? Is this something we need to look into more?

Resources

• The Chastity Project - https://chastity.com

• Envision - TOB for Middle Schoolers

• Women Wonderfully Made Webinar

• Family Culture and the Temperaments: Messy Family Date Night with Art and Laraine Bennett