God Made Boys and Girls: Helping Children Understand the Gift of Gender

by Marty Machowski

Overview

God Made Boys and Girls helps children understand that their gender is a gift from the God who made them and loves them. The story begins as the girls and boys at Grace Christian School are discussing if boys will always be boys and girls will always be girls.

Their teacher explains that God gives each of us the gift of being male or female before we are born, and that you continue to be a boy or a girl whether you like to climb trees or play house, play tag or color pictures, cause a ruckus or sit quietly.

In a world where there is so much confusion about gender and identity, pastor and best-selling author Marty Machowski shares the simple, clear truth that all of us are made in God's image as either male or female--and what God made is very good!

Included in the back of the book is a special section just for parents and caregivers that gives biblical guidance and help as they have this important conversation with their children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781645070313
Publisher:	New Growth Press
Publication date:	09/02/2019
Series:	God Made Me
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Marty Machowski is a Family Life Pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, where he has served on the pastoral staff for over thirty years. He is the author of The Gospel Story Bible, Long Story Short, Old Story New, the Gospel Story Curriculum, the Prepare Him Room advent devotional and curriculum, Wise Up family devotional and curriculum, Listen Up family devotional and curriculum, Dragon Seed, The Ology, Don't Blame the Mud, Parenting First Aid, and Parenting First Aid Study Guide. He and his wife, Lois, have six children and two grandchildren, and they reside in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Editorial Reviews

2019-07-28
Apparently, transgender people don't exist.

After an author's note stating that "You might be able to change the clothes you wear, but nothing can change your God-given, biological sexual identity," this picture-book screed opens with a boy teasing a girl: "If you keep playing with the boys, you will turn into a boy!" Their teacher uses this as a springboard to explain that gender is "God's good gift." Chromosomes are "a code that says you are a boy and a code that says you are a girl," and "God is the one who chooses your code." The leadenly expository text whirls through original sin and the crucifixion, citing select bits of Scripture, lecturing that "God gave us our gender as a special gift, and God never makes mistakes." There's mention about how gender stereotypes are misguided, but only as a means of dismissing transgender identities. Backmatter references intersex conditions, claiming, horrifyingly, that "Because of the fall, a very small percentage of people are born with genetic disorders. Some of those disorders would affect a person's sexual characteristics." Crude, unartful, apparently computer-generated illustrations show a multiracial cast, including brown Bible characters. The admonition to love people despite their so-called gender confusion could possibly be considered harm reduction, but while the text does not advocate for violence or exclusion, it remains an attack on a marginalized population.

Clumsy propaganda for those already in the target audience. (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews