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“How do I talk to my kids about porn?”
“My 4th grader is asking about gender identity. What should I tell her?”
“Do my kids need to know about anal sex?”
“What’s normal sex?”
Parents these days have to deal with questions from kids unlike any other generation in history. Even two decades ago, it was unimaginable that high school kids would be openly discussing anal sex or that BDSM would be mainstream.
There is a new sexual reality in the 21st century. It no longer matters if you live in an isolated rural area or a crowded city. Internet access has opened young people’s eyes to sexual acts that were once forbidden among adults. Today’s kids know more about sex than we did as kids, and their questions and attitudes have changed because of that knowledge.
But they are still kids. They aren’t mature enough to know what to do with all the information or how to tell the good information from the bad kinds. They don’t understand the difference between consensual sex and non-consensual sex. And, even as the Internet is filling their minds with mixed messages about sex, America is struggling with a shocking rise in STIs among teens while our national budgets for school-taught sex ed and affordable reproductive care have been slashed.
That is why Gloria believes that it is time for parents to take control of their kids’ sex education to ensure they get the tools necessary today to protect their bodies and minds in these troubling times. In her new eBook, A Parent’s Guide to Progressive Sex Education, Gloria teaches parents how to give their children a progressive, fact-based education.
Some of the topics covered in this eBook include
- Why home sex education has become a necessary part of modern life and how parents can do a better job than schools and the Internet
- How to teach your kids about consent from their toddler years through their teens
- How to protect and preserve your child’s sexual health and well-being, with tips for every age on the conversations you should be having with them about STIs and other health concerns
- Knowing which subjects must be discussed at every developmental stage, from toddler years to late adolescence
- How to recruit an adult partner to work on you in developing an evidence-based sex education plan for your youngsters
- How to create a developmentally ready (not age-ready) plan that will suit your child’s needs, even when they have special needs
- How to store and schedule your sex ed plan so you can find it in a jiffy whenever you need it
- How to instill a positive body image that will help your kids accept and feel comfortable with their natural bodies
- How to deal with questions about sexual diversity in adults, including LGBT issues
- How to become your child’s strongest ally in all matters sexual and forge a bond they will thank you for in decades to come
Drawing on her wealth of research and experience in human sexuality, Gloria offers every parent fresh tools to build a sex education plan that covers the most common questions kids have about sex. A Parent’s Guide to Progressive Sex Education guides parents to become their children’s best teachers and allies. Some of the tools she offers include:
- A parent’s guide to understanding the importance of child sexual health
- How to detect sexual health problems and minor anomalies before they cause reproductive harm to their child
- Teaching children how to recognize and immediately report predatory adults — and how parents should handle any such complaints from their kids
- How to answer difficult sex questions with grace and compassion
- A simple, science-based guide to the different phases of sexual development in minors, from their biology as toddlers to impinging adulthood in their late teens.
- A curriculum worksheet to create you own sex ed plan that you can use for as long as you have minors under your roof
- Lists of topics that must be discussed with all kids to prepare them for 21st century life and advice on how to fine-tune the curriculum to your own family’s values and needs
- Reading lists for home-study, selected to help you educate them on the relevant medical and mental health information appropriate to their age group
- Suggested homework assignments for children to make them an active and engaged participant in their own sex education
- Recommendations on when you need to take them to a doctors
- Advice on how to get your child to tell you if and when someone touches them inappropriately, regardless of their age
A Parent’s Guide to Progressive Sex Education is an indispensable, fact-based guide to raising sexually happy, healthy and self-confident children in the Internet age.
