Most of us are more than a little uncomfortable talking with parents of kids in our youth ministries about sex, especially when we’re talking about their own kids’ sexual behaviors. This free excerpt from the newly-updated Good Sex 2.0 curriculum will help you design a 90-minute meeting with parents to help promote great conversations about sex—both in your meeting and in their homes.

cowritten by Brad Griffin

“You might have a lot of problems and distractions outside this room, but when you’re here, you are in a different world.”

How many of us say—or communicate without actually speaking—something like that to students about our youth ministries? Sometimes as youth workers we carry a false sense that we can create a youth ministry environment in which all of the stuff that happens “out there” doesn’t matter; instead, it’s “all about Jesus” in the youth room.