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Development Topics
Talking About Sex and Sexuality to Your Adolescent
Continuing the Discussion
Your childs adolescence is a time for you to communicate essential points about sex that go far beyond the technical. In these years you will have the privilege and responsibility of emphasizing the wonderful news about sexuality.
- God designed sex to bring new life into existence, to generate a powerful bond between a husband and wife and to be intensely pleasurable.
- It is a wonderful, extraordinary and powerful gift that deserves to be treated with great and abiding respect.
- In the context of a permanent and public commitment, it can be savored, explored and nurtured without guilt or fear of serious consequences.
- But at the wrong time with the wrong person, sex can bring disappointment, disease and derailed life plans and purposes.
Your adolescent, who is curious about and highly interested in sex, needs a clearheaded understanding of its benefits and risks in order to make a serious commitment to remain sexually pure until marriage. Maintaining such a commitment wont always be easy.
Last updated: May 2005
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