"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Proverbs 22:6
I recently received a complimentary copy of More Than Just the Talk written by Jonathan McKee from Bethany House. Although I'm a longgggggg way from having "the talk" with my children, since my oldest is not even two years old yet. I still jumped at the opportunity to review this book. We have a lot of teenagers in our church, and since we're a lot closer to their age than some other people in the church, we end up spending a lot of time with the teenagers, so I wanted to be prepared.
I LOVED McKee's honest approach to having "the talk". He brought up a lot of great points in the beginning of the book on how much we need to sit down and talk to young people about sex and how the youth of our day (wow, that sounded like something an old person would say!) are bombarded by sex on a daily basis. It's being brought to them by magazines and the radio playing in the grocery store, the popular movies/books of today, and even through commercials! I'm appalled by how much sex is involved just in commercials! With our kids being surrounded by sex, why are we so afraid to approach the subject and make sure they have a Biblical foundation to why they should wait? We shouldn't.
My parents never really had "the talk" with me, though we knew sex was definitely not allowed before marriage and with anyone not our spouse. (Heck, we weren't even allowed to be alone with someone of the opposite sex, EVER.) I'm so thankful that I grew up in an environment like that, and I feel like the Lord saved me from a lot of trouble by placing me in that family. That being said, how do you explain to someone that didn't grow up in home like that on the issues of premarital sex? This book helps answer those questions about so much more.
McKee wrote a very easy to read book about being honest with our children and I think it would make a wonderful addition to any Christian family's bookshelf.
