00:00:20.820There's so many individuals out there that are needing answers to hard questions.
00:00:26.820these parents that are going, hey, my child is being confronted with this content at school.
00:00:32.140Their friends are changing their gender. Trans theory is being taught in the public school system.0.57
00:00:38.680They're seeing bathroom signs that have the cross gender. You know, it's like the half man,0.98
00:00:43.920half woman, half dress kind of icon. And so these conversations are coming up.
00:00:48.700Yeah, they're getting kind of hit from every angle.
00:00:50.540Yeah, I think I saw some stat that was saying that by the age of five, children will have over a thousand instances of sexual perversion. And so they're going to see that just in public, especially if you live in like a big city, or if you're, you know, your kids are maybe on YouTube or on the internet, those things kind of slip in TV commercials, TV shows.
00:01:18.680it's just everywhere and so we are at a point in the church where christian parents need resources
00:01:26.120to not necessarily build an apologetic against the transgender and trans theory movement but
00:01:32.980really to affirm biblical gender and roles for their boys and girls and so we wanted to create
00:01:42.820resource that was you know well designed i mean i think that i hope if you're not new here that
00:01:49.460you learn that we really care about design over at relearn and so everything we do we try to do well
00:01:56.100and so we wanted to write a good book with great illustrations brad smith was the illustrator on
00:02:01.700the project and he worked really hard to make the illustrations fun he's a professional illustrator
00:02:07.940working with some of the biggest publishing houses around and so it's a great uh illustrations and
00:02:13.300then i i made it a rhyming book right it's really fun for younger children um you know little kids
00:02:19.300preschool age younger elementary really love that rhyming it helps you know developmentally with
00:02:24.980their with the way that they learn um and i think about like really nice touch and as a parent i
00:02:31.220like rhyming books better i don't know why like we read that pilgrim's progress book that was
00:02:37.060a full rhyming book of pilgrims progress and that was fun to read i don't know maybe it's just me
00:02:41.060that i like rhyming books um so that was a great opportunity to write this book in a rhyming uh
00:02:45.860rhyming way but again we just wanted to offer tools and resources to affirm biblical gender
00:02:52.500a strong offense is the best defense if that makes sense for example i love having a really0.73
00:03:00.180beautiful lawn now i don't get to do that here not in arizona not in arizona but in oregon rocks
00:03:06.420guys. In Oregon, I was the lawn guy. I had like an acre of grass that I would be almost the kind
00:03:12.740of guy that would get out there with scissors, but not that far. And the best defense is a good
00:03:18.680offense. Meaning that the best defense is to have really strong grass kills weeds. And so
00:03:26.300the same thing here is really strong identity and their biblical gender actually will fight
00:03:34.340against any perversion of it and so uh that's the attempt for for this book great all right
00:03:42.000what is the goal behind writing this book yeah the goal i i want um to see parents
00:03:49.120have a sense of confidence and normalcy of affirming these kind of truths in their kids
00:03:55.720i don't want them to feel uh like they're there's almost like a sense of if you're talking about
00:04:02.480of these things, you're mean or you're unloving.
00:05:15.000It's the parents that get to feel prepared and equipped
00:05:19.740and affirmed that it is good and right and true
00:05:24.240to teach these things to your children.
00:05:26.620even if we're living in a culture that says that's unloving or mean and then it's also for the children so that they would feel confident and rest in the gender that the Lord has given them and have no doubts and have no concerns about that, but actually be excited to be a boy and be excited to be a girl and be excited for what that means for the future.