What if talking to your kids about SEX didn't need to be so AWKWARD?
Have both boys and girls? Just keep reading!
Do you find talking to your kids about sex, puberty, and relationships to be one of the scariest parts of parenting?
You’re in the right place!
We’ve created a course that can help YOU have those conversations with your kids–without it being so scary.
Most parents feel woefully unprepared to talk to their children about sex.
What if I say something wrong?
How do I even get the conversation started?
I just find it really uncomfortable!
And because we feel so scared, too often we make it uncomfortable for our kids, too!
But what if you had HELP starting that conversation?
What if your GIRLS could hear about the hard stuff from “funny big sisters?”
And what if your BOYS had a cool and trustworthy young man who wasn’t afraid to talk about the hard stuff?
What if all you had to do was CONTINUE the conversation, when the hard part was already taken care of?
This video-based course features trustworthy, Christian young people teaching your children about everything they need to know about sex, puberty and growing up.
And then has discussion questions, checklists, and parent-child activities so that you can keep that conversation going!
Because this is too important of a conversation to leave up to chance.
Meet Your Child’s Mentors through The Whole Story
Sheila Wray Gregoire
Sheila loves family and marriage. And she’s your guide through talking to your kids about sex, puberty, and everything that comes along with it.
Read more about Sheila
She’s known as the “Christian sex lady”, and witnesses daily through her blog and emails the impact that early views of sex have on women.
She’s passionate about teaching about sexuality in a healthy, godly way, especially to young women.
The mom to two adult daughters, she spends most of her time in her RV with her husband, speaking around North America. But you can find her on her blog Bare Marriage, which attracts over 1,000,000 page views per month.
Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach
Rebecca is the author of Why I Didn’t Rebel. She, together with her sister, Katie, will be your daughter’s guide through the course!
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Rebecca is a Psychology graduate and the author of the brand new book, Why I Didn’t Rebel: A 22-year-old explains why she stayed on the straight and narrow and how your kids can too! She and her husband Connor live in Ottawa with their pet Yorkie, Winston, who is very curmudgeonly.
Katie (Gregoire) Emmerson
Katie is a Christian Youtuber with over 55k subscribers. She, together with Rebecca, will be your daughter’s guide through the course.
Read more about Katie
Sheldon Neil
Sheldon works in Christian media and is the face behind the boy’s version of The Whole Story. He’ll be your son’s guide through the course!
Read more about Sheldon
An international speaker, TV host and ordained faith leader, he has been featured in ministry initiatives with world-faith leaders such as, TD Jakes.
He holds a Bachelors Degree in Journalism, and is the author of the book, “The 180 Devotional.” He is also the Host and Executive Producer of the TV show, “Outside the Box, with Sheldon Neil,” which reaches over 6 million Canadians.
Sheldon Neil is happily married to Alicia Neil. They are proud parents to their wonderful daughter, Reigan-Sijourney, and son, Edison-Hendrix.
The Whole Story offers a way for parents to have important conversations in a low-pressure environment with both sons and daughters.
Do you find yourself asking…
- WHEN do I tell my kid WHAT? What’s age appropriate?
- How do I even start the hard conversations about puberty or sex–let alone say words like “menstruation” or “penis”?
- How can I make sure they know everything they need to?
- What do I do when my KID seems embarrassed to talk about things?
Or worst of all
What if my kids realize that their parents are “doing it”?!
The younger version of the course covers all of this!
Or do you find yourself asking:
- How can I teach my children the real meaning behind sex?
- How can I help them withstand peer pressure and deal with pornography and body image issues?
- How can I help my kids have healthy worldviews towards dating and relationships?
And most of all…
How do I keep my kid talking to me at all?
The older version of the course covers all of this!
For Boys Ages 10-13
The younger version teaches your son what to expect when it comes to physical changes, but also addresses social and spiritual development, too.
It includes everything your son needs to know about:
- How his body is going to change and what he can do to prepare
- What sex is and why God designed it the way he did
- An introductory conversation about pornography
- How to handle crushes and peer pressure in the Jr. High years
- Inspiration to grow into a man of godly character
- How he can take care of his body to manage all these changes
For Boys Ages 14-16
The older version gets more in-depth and talks about relationships, sex, and character on a deeper level as your son matures.
It includes everything your son needs to know about:
- Puberty in the teenage and high school years
- Navigating relationships with girls in the teenage years.
- Discussions about how to handle social issues like when you discover a friend is having sex, bullying, and how to treat girls with respect.
- Candid conversation about the highly sexualized world we live in and how to honor God in the midst of that.
- Challenges to take charge of where your life is going–questions like “What kind of person am I becoming, and is that the person God made me to be?”
Make sure your son knows the WHOLE story!
For Girls Ages 10-12
The younger version is information based about the changes her body is going through.
It includes everything your daughter needs to know about:
- Her period, including why it happens, how to handle it, and how to make it most comfortable.
- Other body changes she will be experiencing, including breast development, hair growth, and body odor.
- What sex is and how babies are made.
- How to handle boys and peer pressure in the preteen years.
- How to take care of your body to manage all of these changes.
For Girls Ages 13-16
The older version is more world-view based about the social changes she’s going through.
It includes everything your daughter needs to know about:
- How to troubleshoot issues with your period that aren’t often talked about.
- Navigating relationships with guys in the teenage years.
- Discussions about how to handle social issues like when friends make mistakes, bullying, and online peer pressure.
- Candid conversation about the highly sexualized world we live in and how to honor God in the midst of that.
- Learning the skill of styling yourself to send a message–a message that honors God and shows respect for yourself and others.
Make sure your daughter knows the WHOLE story!
The course isn’t a REPLACEMENT for you.
It’s a RESOURCE for you to start those conversations in a natural, unintimidating way, so that you can continue them for years to come.
I sure didn’t handle talking to my daughters about sex and puberty well!
I took Rebecca, my oldest, away on a weekend when she was 10 1/2 and listened to another course. Its emphasis was on teaching purity–getting girls to promise not to have sex until they were married.
She was so grossed out she would have promised never to look at a boy again in her life!
My youngest asked for details when she was 8, and I guess I didn’t explain it well, because the next day she hugged me and said, “I’m so sorry you had to go through that to get me, Mommy, but thank you.”
Whoops.
I also forgot to teach her to shave. Forgot to get them emergency kits in case they “leaked”. Forgot to warn them about porn. Forgot to teach them what to do when their friends started getting into trouble.
I was teaching about sex from the stage, but it was so hard when it was my own daughters!
As they got to be older teenagers we all got much more comfortable, and we’re really open now.
But we wanted to create for you the course that I wish I had had when my girls were younger–
So that you can avoid all the mistakes that I made!
(and here we are joking about it)
And that’s how The Whole Story for Girls was born.
But we were missing something:
The Whole Story for Boys.
After a whole inbox filled with emails asking, “When is a boy’s version coming out?” we finally have it ready!
Sheldon Neil works in Christian media and is passionate about sharing a message of encouragement and hope for young people. With all the mixed messages being thrown at them, Sheldon had a vision for this course: to help boys discover for themselves what God has to say about who they are what who they could become.
The Whole Story for Boys will teach your son everything he needs to know about growing up–but more than that, it creates the space for you to have the hard-hitting conversations about character development and spiritual growth.
These are the conversations your son needs to have. And we want to help you have them.
The Whole Story is here–ready to take the stress out of having “the talk” with your kid!
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access to the materials for one age group for either a boy or a girl- Videos to teach your child about sex, puberty, and growing up
- Discussion questions, activities, and other lessons in printable format
- Lifetime Access
- EXTRA parenting advice taking you through the younger years, including how to talk to younger children about sex and good touch/bad touch
- BONUS Unit on handling video games and TV addiction
- BONUS Unit on studying and memorizing scripture together to foster spiritual development together!
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Choose to get the complete set for either the boys' or the girls' version with a ton of bonus materials- Access to the course for both ages for one gender
- Videos to teach your child about sex, puberty, and growing up
- Discussion questions, activities, and other lessons in printable format
- Lifetime Access
- EXTRA parenting advice taking you through the younger years, including how to talk to younger children about sex and good touch/bad touch
- BONUS Unit on handling video games and TV addiction
- BONUS Unit on studying and memorizing scripture together to foster spiritual development together!
- Access to materials for both genders
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Get both levels, both genders.- Access to the course for both ages for BOTH genders.
- Videos to teach your child about sex, puberty, and growing up
- Discussion questions, activities, and other lessons in printable format
- Lifetime Access
- EXTRA parenting advice taking you through the younger years, including how to talk to younger children about sex and good touch/bad touch
- BONUS Unit on handling video games and TV addiction
- BONUS Unit on studying and memorizing scripture together to foster spiritual development together!
With the Lifetime Access VIP Version, you’ll also get:
Unlock the Mystery of Talking to Younger Kids about Sex
What do you do if your 8-year-old asks you what sex is?
Or worse–what happens if you tell your kid what sex is, and then they have more questions?
Get a mentoring video from Sheila about how to talk to younger children about sex–plus lots of extra resources that you can read at your leisure to prepare you for those awkward questions from your kids!
Information from a Physician So You Know When Something’s a Problem
Ever wondered if your daughter’s cramps are normal–or over the top? What if she’s skipping periods? Or having ones that last too long? What if your daughter is 13 and nothing’s happened yet–or she’s 9 and there’s tons happening already!
Sheila’s husband Keith is a pediatrician, and he’ll reassure you about what things are normal, and when you need to go and talk to a doctor.
Extra units that deal with video game addictions, spiritual development, and more!
The VIP (girl’s version) access contains extra ideas for mother-daughter conversation and fun, so that you can work on growing your relationship even after you’ve watched The Whole Story videos.
The boy’s version includes discussion about video games and how to have healthy boundaries with electronics.
Both genders get access to spiritual development tools including stories of inspirational people of the faith and scripture memorizing challenges.
Your kids are growing up. They need to hear this stuff from you before they learn from friends, from school, or from the internet.
Every parent hopes all their hard work will pay off. Sheila Gregoire’s has. Her daughters are now joining her voice to share and teach other women like me who need to know what works and what doesn’t when it comes to navigating this parenting relationship, the good, the bad and always for the better.
Are You Ready to Tell Your Child The Whole Story?
Each unit includes ready-to-watch videos that you can start with no preparation–right away!
Grow your relationship with your children, while you know that they’re learning everything they need to know–with a biblical worldview.
I found it easier to tell my girls the basics about the facts of life than I did to add the personal element to it as they grew into teens.
I told them about their periods, but talking about porn? Masturbation? Peer pressure? I wasn’t as good at that.
And I was also really frustrated with the way that the resources that I did have available were slanting the whole conversation.
The guide I used when Rebecca hit puberty was all about purity–teaching her why sex was only for marriage. But at that age (she was 10), the thought of actually doing that wasn’t even on her radar.
She didn’t need to be convinced to wait until marriage. She needed to be convinced that it was a good thing at all!
And don’t get me started on how few resources are available to talk about healthy sexuality with boys–talking about porn, sexual attraction, and lust is difficult to do without inadvertently giving your children a lot of false guilt while still giving them the information they need. But it is possible to talk about these things in a healthy way that shows them a balanced, biblical truths about sex, porn, and even how God made sexuality.
I found that so many kids today hit puberty when they’re still really young and before sexual feelings really start. Yet often that’s the last time parents talk to their children–when they hit puberty.
And then, when they really need us, we’ve forgotten how to have those conversations.
With The Whole Story, you can keep having those conversations!
But we don’t aim to replace you. This is just a resource to START those conversations.
Rebecca, when writing her book Why I Didn’t Rebel, found again and again that it was parents’ expectations of their children that made the biggest difference. When parents were authentic with their kids about their faith, and expected their kids to be authentic, too, then kids tended to follow Jesus easily. But when parents expected the worst, or didn’t tell the kids what they expected at all, kids tended to flounder.
Our philosophy in this course is that we’ll tell your kids the information and in general terms what God wants, but then we have discussion guidelines, checklists, and activity ideas so that you can have the real heart-to-heart with your daughter, in a stress-free way, about what guidelines you want her to have.
It’s what YOU think about modesty that matters. It’s the guidelines YOU have about dating and sex that matter.
We’re not raising your children!
It’s YOUR values that matter.
So let us start those conversations at just the right ages, and then YOU can guide those conversations home.
Here’s what’s in The Whole Story (Girls):
Younger Version (ages 10-12)
Unit 1: What is your period? And how do you handle it?
Unit 2: How Your Body is Changing: What to expect (Including acne, breast development, hair growth, and more).
Unit 3: Boys & Friends: Handling crushes, bullying, and peer pressure.
Unit 4: The Sex Talk: How babies are made and what is sex, anyway?
Unit 5: Taking Care of Your Body: How to take care of yourself now that you’re becoming a young woman.
Older Version (ages 13-15):
Unit 1: Troubleshooting Your Period: When is something wrong, dealing with PMS, and methods to manage your period.
Unit 2: Puberty 2.0: Developing a Woman’s Body & What Boys are Going Through
Unit 3: Relationships in the Teenage Years: Navigating dating, friendships, and peer pressure without sacrificing your values.
Unit 4: God’s Design for Sex: Why God made sex the way he did and how to live in our highly sexualized culture in a way that pleases Him.
Unit 5: Becoming a Woman: How to dress classy and respectful and how to stay healthy in the teenage years.
Here’s what’s in The Whole Story (Boys):
Younger Version (ages 10-13)
Unit 1: What is sex, and why did God make it the way He did?
Unit 2: How Your Body is Changing: What to expect and how to prepare for it.
Unit 3: Girls & Friends: Handling crushes, bullying, and peer pressure.
Unit 4: Becoming a Man of God: treating others well and becoming a man of good character.
Unit 5: Taking Care of Your Body: How to take care of yourself now that you’re becoming a young man.
Older Version (ages 14-16):
Unit 1: Puberty in the teenage years: what to expect through high school.
Unit 2: Social Changes and Issues: Wrestling with party culture, dating, bullying, and more.
Unit 3: The Sex Talk: why God made sex the way he did and why it’s meant for marriage as well as real talk about porn and masturbation.
Unit 4: Becoming a Man of God: learning where to put your identity and become the person you were designed to be.
Unit 5: Taking Care of Yourself: Staying healthy and developing good hygiene habits.
Rest easy with lifetime access to all of this important information with the Complete VIP version that bundles the information for BOTH genders.
Can be used with multiple kids, as your subscription never runs out.
Includes ALL materials for both ages (including any updated material we add!)
Podcasts to give you confidence when younger kids ask uncomfortable questions
A Doctor speaks about how to know when you need to see a physician
Extra mother-daughter activity ideas
Bonus units including one to help you prevent video game addiction.