Sex Is Not a Four-Letter Word!: Talking Sex with Children Made Easier - Softcover

Miller, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824514378 ISBN 13: 9780824514372

Publisher: Crossroad, 1994

Synopsis

A guide for parents on educating children on sex from birth to young adulthood offers an approach based in a knowledge of psychosexual development and understanding of the current teachings of established religions

About this title

From Booklist

Sex educator and religion instructor Miller succeeds at the daunting task of providing parents with a solidly scientific, psychologically empathic, and spiritually focused guide to children's sexuality from birth through young adulthood. She urges an authoritative, interactive approach to one's children's sexuality that is based in both thorough knowledge of psychosexual development and understanding of the current teachings of established religions including Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Judaism. Specific topics she addresses include the importance of self-esteem in sexual identity, psychosexual development patterns and milestones, loving and supporting a gay or lesbian child, preventing date rape, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, dispelling myths and fantasies regarding sex, and preventing sexual abuse. She also advises parents on becoming comfortable with their sexuality, effectively modeling sexual attitudes and behavior, and, most important, encouraging the development of sexual morality. A powerful amalgam of practical advice, scholarly research, and religious training forthrightly and caringly presented, Miller's handbook will bolster parents' self-confidence as they face the challenges of their children's sexual and moral education. Kathryn Carpenter

From Library Journal

In this no-nonsense guide for parents to the complexities of sex education, Miller attempts to answer the most frequently asked questions from her over 30 years in the education field. While acknowledging that any discussion of sex with a child may be an uneasy experience for both participants, she offers ways to help begin the process of open and honest communication involving both the child's sexuality and morality. Miller also tackles such specific issues as loving your gay or lesbian child, sexual abuse, date rape, and, of course, AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. Miller is well known for her video series, "In God's Image: Male and Female," and she deserves to add to her reputation with this outstanding sex education purchase, appropriate for even the most conservative of communities.
Marty D. Evensvold, Magnolia P.L., Tex.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crossroad
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0824514378
• ISBN 13: 9780824514372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216