Pure Foundations Series: God Made Your Body and How God Makes Babies by Jim Burns

Children's curiosity often prompts them to ask questions you, as a parent, don't feel ready or able to answer. But it doesn't have to be that way. Dr. Jim Burns, family expert and award-winning author, offers a valuable resource for those uncomfortable--even dreaded--conversations.

With biblical, age-appropriate information and illustrations, these books (for children ages 3-5 and 6-9) to the basics of human sexuality. Answering questions such as how boys and girls are different and where babies come from, these books also emphasize how children are a part of God's wonderful plan for families.

About The Author:

Jim Burns, PhD, founded the ministry of HomeWord in 1985 to bring help and hope to struggling families. Jim hosts the radio broadcast HomeWord with Jim Burns, which is heard daily in over eight hundred communities nationwide, and speaks to thousands around the world each year. He is an award-winning author, whose books include Teaching Your Children Healthy Sexuality. Jim and his wife, Cathy, have three grown daughters and live in California.

Back Cover Review:

When I was growing up, people just didn’t talk about this stuff. At least not in our family. Our grandparents grew up in a Victorian-influenced culture where you didn’t talk about your bodies, sexuality or any kind of stuff. It wasn’t proper. Well, after being around friends who have approached this subject and opened up the lines of communication about it with their kids, I decided that it seemed like a good thing to do, but how?

In a world, where the subject of sex is overt and all around as – and a topic of interest even for elementary kids – if we don’t talk about it to our kids (in ways appropriate for their age), they’re going to get information, accurate or not, from somewhere else.

It doesn’t mean that this was easy for me – or Chet – to talk about with our kids. I had trouble breathing as I read the first book – for 3-5 year olds! Obviously, I have issues. Chet had read a book for fathers of daughters. It said that it is a good idea for it to be the father’s responsibility to approach this topic with his girls. So, he read God Made Your Body to them. His voice sounded strangled as he read and I couldn’t stop giggling – not the best start, but we did it. Can you imagine if we tried to talk about it with them and didn’t have a book to start off with? Oh my.

Our oldest daughter got the giggles as we read – probably due to my influence. Our youngest daughter was concerned about how a baby gets out of the mother’s womb and that the baby was crying after it was born. But we’ve started and I’m thankful for this series. It seems very age appropriate to me and introduces the basic body parts of a boy and girl in a very natural conversational way (something that we don’t seem capable of yet) and “how babies are made” in its most basic form. I wanted some sort of book like this to get us started and am all the more grateful that there’s Christian-based material to use.

Needless to say, I almost passed out when I read How God Makes Babies…to myself, LOL. Yes, I have personal issues to work through apparently (thank goodness I have a little time to get over it), but it looks like an excellent way to continue this conversation with our children. It is my hope to continue with this series by Jim Burns as they get older too. The material seems very age appropriate, is more than helpful in introducing and continuing the conversation of the birds and the bees and says it so much better than we would!

This book was provided for review by Bethany House a division of Baker Publishing Group.