The Parents' Guide to Explaining Sex: What to Tell Your Child and 5 Simple Steps to Get Started

“It doesn’t matter how comfortable you might think you are; talking about sex with kids just makes you squirm. But luckily, the more you talk about it, the less you squirm!”

In The Parents’ Guide to Explaining Sex, family communication and sex education expert Cath Hakanson draws on over 25 years of experience of clinical experience and improving parenting skills to offer you over 20 ways to start talking about sex with your teen or pre-teen child, in a manner that allows both the child and the parent to be comfortable and confident!

As all parents know, answering your children’s questions about how to have sex, where babies come from, how puberty works and what their private parts are used for can be difficult… but, if we don’t provide clear answers that make sense, teenagers turn to their own devices to find answers – internet pornography, advice from schoolmates and social media. Luckily, Cath provides parents easy, no-nonsense advice on how to broach the subject of sex with even shy or rebellious girls and boys and breaks down the discussion about sexual intercourse down into five simple steps that makes the daunting task so much easier to accomplish!

In The Parents’ Guide to Explaining Sex, you will learn:

• How to explain sex however feels most comfortable for you – this beautifully illustrated parents’ guide is full of child-friendly images and includes both traditional and gender-nonconforming explanations
• How to share your sexual values and provide a moral compass to your child, so that they understand what types of sexual attitudes and behaviors are appropriate
• How to engage even the most reluctant child into positive discussions about sex, puberty and becoming sexually mature
• How to answer your child’s sex questions with age-appropriate language and sate their curiosity with clear, factual answers, instead of using vague symbolism like “the birds and the bees” or a stork dropping off babies
• How to talk about sex in an up-to-date, inclusive manner, so that your child understands all types of relationships and sexual interactions, including homosexuality, transgenderism, same-sex parents and non-binary people

Providing a thorough, responsible sexual education for teens doesn’t have to be a minefield of discomfort and misinformation! The Parents’ Guide to Explaining Sex gives parents of all comfort levels an easy, no-nonsense guide on exactly what to say to your kids about sex, and precisely how and when to say it!

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