What if talking to your kids about SEX didn't need to be so AWKWARD?
Introducing The Whole Story: your guide to talking to your kids about sex, puberty, and growing up.
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!
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!
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?
Because this is too important of a conversation to leave up to chance.
Meet Your Child’s Mentors through The Whole Story
Rebecca Lindenbach
Rebecca is the author of Why I Didn’t Rebel, and a researcher and co-author on The Great Sex Rescue and She Deserves Better. Co-host of the Bare Marriage podcast, you’ve likely seen Rebecca around before! Rebecca and her sister Katie are the guides for the girls’ version of the course. Let us do the explaining about periods and tampons!
Katie Emmerson
Katie (Gregoire) Emmerson is Rebecca’s sister and Katie started a YouTube channel at 16 to get a boy’s attention. She’s now forgotten who he is–but she had 40,000 fans who tuned in to hear her thoughts on what it means to live out your faith authentically in today’s culture. A video and production editor, today she spends most of her time as mom to an adorable baby girl.
Connor Lindenbach
Connor is Rebecca’s husband, and has been working with Bare Marriage since 2018. Connor brings a great perspective to The Whole Story, having grown up an atheist and converting at 19 to Christianity. He loves computer coding, and does a lot of the behind-the-scenes work that keeps Bare Marriage running!
Daniel Barros
Daniel met the Gregoires through a Bible Quizzing program in Jr. High and High School, but today Daniel is in med school studying to become a doctor. Daniel and Connor will be guiding your son(s) through the boy’s version of the course, helping you have those tough conversations and doing the hard part for you!
My daughter is 11 and your program saved me earlier this week when she started her period. I had prepared her somewhat, but wow did I miss a lot! I’m so very thankful that you and your daughters put the program together. I’ve been passing it along to my mom friends that have daughters!
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!
In the younger course:
The younger course is facts-based, and goes over the basics of puberty, to make sure your child has the information that they need for the next few years. It includes:
- UNIT 1: How your body changes in puberty
- UNIT 2: Periods, erections, wet dreams–all those convos you are not looking forward to.
- UNIT 3: Crushes, peer pressure, and social media in Jr. High
- UNIT 4: Where do babies come from? And some introduction content about pornography and consent.
- UNIT 5: Self-care and taking ownership of hygiene during puberty (no, axe body spray is not a substitute for showering)
In the older course:
The older course delves deeper into the “why” behind a lot of information. The older course is focused on helping your teen develop discernment in these areas. It includes:
- UNIT 1: Puberty through the teenage years
- UNIT 2: Troubleshooting difficult periods, and why erections aren’t sinful
- UNIT 3: Dating, parties, and candid conversations about sexual safety in a hyper-sexualized world.
- UNIT 4: Consent, pornography, and the “why” behind the wait.
- UNIT 5: Practical skills teens need to take care of themselves during the high school years.
Make sure your son 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.
The Whole Story is here–ready to take the stress out of having “the talk” with your kid!
SINGLE LEVEL
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
- BONUS Unit on studying and memorizing scripture together to foster spiritual development together!
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Single Sex VIP Package
Choose to get the complete set for either the boys' or the girls' version- Access to ALL material 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
- Access to materials for both genders
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Complete Package
Get both levels, both genders. ALL The Whole Story material we have!- 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
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 was born.
The Lifetime Access VIP membership is our most popular option. Start when the kids are young, watching the videos on teaching kids about sex slowly. Then preview the puberty ones so you’re ready! Then the course grows with your child–or children.
In The Whole Story, you’re going to get more than just the birds and the bees talk. You also get:
faith-based bonus unit on developing moral character in the preteen and teenage years
Does your daughter know how to use her voice?
What do you want your son to know about what it means to be a godly man?
And how do you help them find their identity in Christ when they’ve got so many messages being thrown at them? Let’s talk about it.
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 materials to help you create healthy boundaries with screen time and media content with your child
What’s appropriate to watch? What needs to get done before the computer is turned on? How can you help train your child to have discernment so they can make good choices about the content they ingest when you’re not around? This isn’t about making rules, it’s about teaching your kid the wisdom to make good decisions themselves.
Your kids are growing up. They need to hear this stuff from you before they learn from friends, from school, or from the internet.
Thank you so so sooooo much for making the whole story program, as you said it would work with doing both my daughters at once – so I am working through the program with my 2 daughters aged 10 and 11 (here in Australia). We are all loving (especially me!) how easy and how thorough it makes everything, please thank your daughters so much too who make it so fun and accessible.
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.
That’s why we’ve arranged this course so that, for the younger kids, it’s more information based. We tell them what is happening and why, but we leave the emotional parts until the older version. That’s when we delve into those hard topics that affect teenagers.
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:
Unit 1: Body Changes During Puberty
Topics covered: body hair, acne, odor, breast development (for girls’ course), voice changes, and more.
Unit 2: Periods and Penises (changes in sexual organs)
Topics covered: Periods, erections, wet dreams, and why these happen.
Unit 3: Social Challenges Faced in Teen Years
Topics covered: crushes, decisions on whether to date, social media, peer pressure, and more.
Unit 4: Sex.
Topics covered: reproduction, contraception, consent, pornography, and more.
Unit 5: Take Care of Yourself
Topics covered: hygiene, personal responsibility, self-care, and enjoying getting to grow up!
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!)