How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex Without Harming Innocence | Coleen Kelly Mast

How can Catholic parents teach chastity and purity at home — without destroying their children’s innocence?

Coleen Kelly Mast, author, speaker, and host of Mast Appeal on Ave Maria Radio, joins Living a Culture of Life to share how Catholic parents can stay the primary educators on sexuality, what makes Catholic teaching different from secular schools, and how her Love Ed program helps parishes equip parents to have these conversations with confidence.

With decades in health education, theology, and family life education — plus raising 5 children — Mast explains how to keep kids “innocent but not ignorant,” why morality must come with beauty, and the common mistakes that harm innocence (too much, too soon, without parents present).

In this episode:

• Why parents — not schools or parishes — must lead sex education
• How to answer tough questions in age-appropriate, grace-filled ways
• What Theology of the Body looks like for 9-15 year olds
• How Love Ed works: 2-hour parent + child seminars for pre-puberty and puberty, plus 6 take-home lessons
• Why chastity is more than abstinence — purity, virtue, and God’s plan for marriage
• How Sex Respect brings abstinence-based education into public schools

Learn more about LoveEd: Helping Children “Get Love Right” – LoveEd

Learn more about Coleen Kelly Mast: Family Life Issues from a Catholic Perspective – Coleen Kelly Mast

HLI article on Christian sex-education: Christian Sex Education: Authentic and Self-Giving Love