by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 18, 2025 | Parenting Teens, Podcasts
We want our kids to grow up with healthy views of sexuality. We certainly don’t want them to end up with the hangups that many of their millennial/Gen x parents had because of purity culture. But sometimes we can end up going too far in the other direction, and...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 17, 2025 | Parenting Teens
The world our kids inhabit changes about every eight years now. With tech and culture changes, the world is speeding ahead as it never has before, and the world our kids are living in is very, very different from the one you grew up in. We’re living in different...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 15, 2025 | Parenting Teens
We need to have an awkward conversation about an awkward conversation. Kids need to know about sex. And they need to know about it from you. That doesn’t mean that you have to do anything perfectly, or that it’s not allowed to be awkward. It just means it...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 28, 2024 | Parenting Teens
Nobody wants to pass on sexual shame to their kids! Being able to talk to your kids about sex without giving them the message that they should be ashamed of this part of themselves is such a gift you can give your kids. That’s why we created The Whole Story, a...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 25, 2024 | Parenting Teens
Shame from our preteen introduction to sex is horrible. None of us wants shame about sex or about puberty, but a lot of us are carrying it. And how can we make sure we don’t pass it on to our kids? One of the big messages at Bare Marriage is that it is possible...