LAUNCH INTO THE TEEN YEARS

LAUNCH INTO THE TEEN YEARS by Focus on the Family

Parents, if you would like some help navigating THE SEX TALK with your preteens, I highly recommend Launch!

Typically, the summer before 7th grade is a crossover threshold in our home from childhood into the teenage world. Don't get me wrong, life offers opportunities of discussions before this point due to what is observed in our current culture, what shows up in movies/music/social media, chats with peers, etc. I answer questions from my kids when I believe the info is age appropriate, but the main mom initiated talk happens during the summer crossover.

When you order Launch, a box arrives with a journal for your child and one for you, the parent. Inside the cover is a QR code that allows you access to 2 videos before the start of each of the 6 sessions. One video is just for you, the parent. The other is for you to watch with your tween. These videos include a bit of fun that ease the parents and tweens into the deeper topics.

What are the 6 sessions? They are as follows: Who Am I, The One About Friends and Other Enemies, Of Memes and Meanies, About Male and Female, What's Happening to My Body, and The Big Talk. I absolutely loved that this talk started with the value of our tweens and who they listen to to get advice.

On the whole I loved this resource. There were a couple of times that I felt a question or two got a head of where we were in our discussion. When this happened, I just marked them to come back to when we covered the topic I felt it more appropriately fell under.

Just so you know, I chose this resource on my own and purchased it for our home with no compensation from Focus on the Family.