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""This book is a gift to all parents trying to navigate the complexity of raising children in today's world. ... I wish I could make this book required reading for every parent."" - Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women 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 foundation from 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 for both marriage and singleness Explain God's design for sex with clarity Discuss gender identity from a biblical perspective Protect your children from sexual abuse Prevent porn addiction 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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""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 ""This book is a gift to all parents trying to navigate the complexity of raising children in today's world. In Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World, Laurie and Matt Krieg have shared invaluable wisdom, insight, and understanding that is crucial in these times. I wish I could make this book required reading for every parent."" -- Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women

""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 ""This book is a gift to all parents trying to navigate the complexity of raising children in today's world. In Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World, Laurie and Matt Krieg have shared invaluable wisdom, insight, and understanding that is crucial in these times. I wish I could make this book required reading for every parent."" -- Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women ""I'd love for every Christian parent to read this book. It covers not only what to say but also how to understand and communicate the important why's of God's plan for sexuality. This is a rich read, providing a powerful combination of personal experience, theological depth, and practical application."" -- Juli Slattery, president and cofounder of Authentic Intimacy and author of Rethinking Sexuality ""With wisdom, humility, gentleness, and the proper confidence of one who knows her subject and the fraught landscape it can sometimes bring, Laurie Krieg has, with Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Broken World, offered her 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

Author Information

Matt Krieg is a licensed professional counselor and director of counseling at Caring Well Counseling. Together, Laurie and Matt host the Hole in My Heart podcast. They live with their three children in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dan B. Allender (PhD, counseling psychology, Michigan State University) is professor of counseling at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. He taught previously at Grace Theological Seminary and Colorado Christian University. A speaker and writer, his books include The Healing Path, To Be Told, How Children Raise Parents, The Wounded Heart and Leading with a Limp. With Tremper Longman, he wrote Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies and the IntimateMarriage Bible studies. Laurie Krieg is the director of parent programs and discipleship for The Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender. Laurie and her husband, Matt, are cohosts of the Hole in My Heart podcast, coauthors of An Impossible Marriage, andlive in West Michigan with their three kids.

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