Texas

How do I respond to my child’s questions about identity and gender? This question is becoming one of the top requests from homeschool parents at Be Broken. This session will provide parents with teaching tools for children of all ages about identity. The session will address questions children have when they encounter non-traditional identities and become confused. The session will also address helpful ways parents can respond if a child begins to question his or her identity.

Along with hormones and other changes in the brain, willpower is different in children ages 10-22 than in adults. Willpower is what gives us the ability for self-control and we understand more about how that process works than ever before. Adolescents experience broad changes in willpower levels that parents should be aware of.

This session will start with an overview of what willpower is, how it works, and why willpower levels are different in adolescents than in younger children and adults. We will then look at how willpower interacts with hormone levels and changes in the pre-frontal cortex and limbic systems of the brain in adolescents. We will see examples of why God created adolescents to be this way and the strengths it gives them. But with every strength comes weaknesses, so we will conclude by looking at several ways parents can help adolescents compensate for these temporary changes in willpower to make healthier decisions.

Appropriate conversations with our children about sex include more than telling them what not to do. Parent surveys—Christian and secular—shed light on conversations parents may be missing with their children to help them avoid and resist sexual pitfalls. Even in a homeschool environment children must be prepared before they leave home to safely navigate a sex-obsessed culture. These conversations are most effective when parents start with younger children.

This workshop will unpack six kinds of conversations that parents can have with children ages 5-18 that help them resist pornography and other sexual temptations. We will include ways to reduce anxiety around healthy conversations about sex. We will give you words to use to help your children understand God’s design for sexuality at different ages. We will demonstrate how to leverage emotional resilience to enhance sexual wholeness in children. You will come away with greater confidence and new ideas you can try immediately at home.