How should a Christian parent talk to a young child who is becoming curious about the human body and sexuality?

I can ask one other question, please. At one point, I called in and mentioned about your book about raising boys, and I’m raising a daughter. And at that time, I entreated you to ask to to write a book about raising girls. But my seven year old has begun showing a lot of interest in the human body, and I can’t say that I know how to deal with it.

Do you have good recommendations on books to read, or good advice from yourself on how to deal with children? Now it seems like she attends a private Christian school, but even there, you know there’s still people talking and people doing things that you don’t really know how to inoculate them against. What advice do you have on how to broach those topics with a seven year old?

Because I feel like I’m going to get in there and I’m going to start talking about things, and I’m going to go probably way deeper than I need to, and it seems very scary. Yeah, no, it may seem scary, but I think you need to have the conversation, but not with dumping all the information that’s in your head, but really guiding the conversation with your questions.

You need to ask the questions like, you know, why are you doing this? Or what do you know? Or what do you know? Just guide it with specific questions. You can’t get around the fact that even as little kids and even little girls at seven, you’re going to have, you know, behaviors and actions that are even, you know, they seem ahead of time.

They seem precocious, like, why are we having this now? But have the conversation. It probably is a lot less behind it. I pray, I mean, there’s very rarely there may be something behind it, but usually it’s it’s an innocent kind of awareness that you just need to then just put in its proper context. I mean, it’s like I little kids, I had my grandkids over last night.

They do things that are just inappropriate for doing in front of people, even when they’re 3 or 4. And you just got to start to say, well, this is inappropriate. We don’t do that. We don’t do that here. We don’t do that now. And it can be as simple as that at a at seven, depending on what’s kind of motivating this and what may be motivating some of that is just, you know, the human body and the responses to the brain that happen with different parts of the human body and just be matter of fact, and you don’t have to give the whole, you know, kit and caboodle of what you’re thinking, right?

Because you’re right. I would be afraid of just lecturing. You don’t want a lecture because you’re going to give way too much information that is not needed. But start with questions, very specific questions and books. I can’t think of a single one, and I’m sure there are some, but I can’t think of one that would help guide you through this, other than maybe to ask a dad who’s had multiple girls and he’s raised and say, you know, talk to me about this.

And so find a dad with, you know, who’s who’s recently raised 4 or 5 girls and, you know, ask him and tell him. Tell him your situation and say, hey, I want to be the good dad. I want to be the right dad. I want to, you know, not not blow her brains with some stuff she doesn’t need to hear.

But help me with this. Have you ever dealt with this? And I don’t think it’s going to take long, because I can think of plenty of examples of people that have come to me talking about this with their, you know, six, seven, eight, nine years old. So, yeah, have that conversation. I wish I could direct you to a title.

I will ask someone here on staff that probably deals with that more than I and the two of them, at least that I could ask. And if I come up with something, Kenneth, I’ll stated on the show tomorrow morning. How about that? Perfect. Thank you. All right, Kenneth, thanks for the question. Yeah, that’s don’t stress dads in particular.

We we stress a lot with things about our daughters I get it. But yeah. Yeah. And he wants to write that book. Well, no one’s asking me to write that book except for people like you. But I need a publisher to ask me to write that book. I guess I don’t have to, but be good. If that were the.

And not that I’m the guy to write it, I really. I got a guy on staff that could write it and he was had a bunch of girls, so that would probably be better. All right. 187791353570. And I figured this text would pop up. Focal point you is under Study the Bible. Oh, come on, I did the wrong one.

Yes. Kenneth, if you’re still listening, go to pastor Mike, click on Study the Bible and then go down to Focal Point. You I’m doing it right now clicking on that. Let’s just get into I don’t know. Let’s get into the Angels and demons since we were just talking about that angels and demons I’m going to go to I’m going to go to the names of Satan, let’s say November the 3rd.

And now, yep, I’m pulling it up and there’s the video and I get the audio if I want that. And here are the sermon notes. If I click download and there it is as a PDF, I think. And it’s popped right up. And that’s so cool that I asked that I talked about that one because that one is a big gigantic chart.

And yeah, you’re not going to listen to that sermon. Oh, it’s got I even got all the it’s got all the PowerPoints. All right. Thanks, Greg. Greg from Focal Point and just wrote me with all that information. But yes Kenneth, I hope you’re still listening. And there it is. We’ve we’ve just untangled it all. Pastor. Click under Study the Bible.

Go down to Focal Point. You click on any one of the sermons and not only will you get the worksheet with all the charts on it, but you will also get all of the all of the focal point PowerPoint slides. What do they call them? They call them slides, right? Slides. And there you go. Problem solved. Maybe a day late and a dollar short.

But there it was 1-877-913-5357. You can always text me a question at 90398. Just text the word ask and then follow the form and do that. I’ve got some coming in here. But before I do that, let me just mention the Focal Point cruise next summer. Please go to. As long as I’m there. Let me see if I can find what that says about the cruise focal point, which is Pastor Macomb.

Go down to the bottom and there it is, the focal point cruise September the 19th through the 26th. And it says joining pastor Mike on this adventure, going to be an adventure leader. Well, I don’t know about all the ports we go to, but I certainly will try to take us through God’s Word. I’ll be teaching on. I will be teaching on the Proverbs, but here it is.

It says right here you can text the word cruise, right? Crew, I s e to our number 90398. You text that we’ll get you all the information about the cruise, and hopefully you can join us next summer. Next September is kind of in the fall. I say summer, but at the fall, next fall, September 19th to the 26th, then we’re going to go to New England and Canada, and I’m going to teach the Bible every day on the ship.

And they’re really fancy and beautiful. Ballroom, not ballroom. What is it, stage? I don’t know what it’s called, but comfy seats, they’re comfortable enough to wear. If the sermons boring, you can just doze off and go to sleep, so it’s perfect.