Life Curriculum - A Partnership with Parents

You, as parents, are the primary educators of your children. You impart your values, attitudes, and beliefs to your children by teaching and modeling. As one of the most influential people in your children’s lives, you impact the choices your children make.

Although you are the primary sex educators of your children and adolescents, we, as school educators, are in a unique position to support you and teach about God’s design for sexuality and relationships.

Adolescents tend to receive most of their information about sex from friends, siblings, or a sex education/health class.1 Some information from friends and siblings may not be accurate. Working together, we can communicate information accurately and make an even greater impact on encouraging young people to make healthy choices that honor God.

Our teachers will use the following premises when teaching pre-adolescents and adolescents about sexuality and relationships:

• God designed sex for the marriage partnership.
• God condemns deviant sexual behavior.
• God designed sex to be a beautiful expression of love between a husband and a wife.
• God gives us instruction on how to develop personal integrity and build healthy relationships through his Word.
• God is full of mercy and grace for those who believe and have sinned, even through the sin of sexual immorality.2

It’s often difficult to keep up with the current information needed to teach about sexuality and relationships. Young people also have their own cultural twist on information. So we are all better informed, we will offer educational workshops on communicating with your sons and daughters about sexuality and relationship issues throughout the school year. We will include relevant information, practical strategies, and resources to use in talking with your child.

In addition, you will find information about the curriculum and topics on this web site.
You are encouraged to ask questions and initiate discussion about the topics discussed in class. If you have any additional questions or concerns, you are always welcome to email Mrs. Clark, Life Curriculum Coordinator.

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More Information

1- Where and How Teens Get Advice on Talking About Sex. National Survey of Teens: Teens Talk about Dating, Intimacy, and Their Sexual Experiences. March 27, 1998. Kaiser Family Foundation . 7 March 2007.

2- Adapted from: Scherrer, D.L. and L.M. Klepacki. How to Talk to Your Kids About Sexuality. Colorado Springs, CO: Cook Communications Ministries, 2004, p. 9.

Page Updated 2/15/08