You cannot raise your children as your parents raised you, because your parents raised you for a world that no longer exists.
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30 Days of Sex Talks for Ages 3-7
This read makes it simple for you to engage in critical conversations with your young child. Starting with My Body Belongs to Me, and moving into other protective information such as I have Instincts that Keep Me Safe, and Boundaries. They have also included dialogues on important topics such as affection, anatomy, respecting others, predators, romantic love, and online dangers. Using the numerous questions, conversation starters, and in-depth glossary we have provided, you can launch these essential talks with your child and interject your personal thoughts, feelings and cultural beliefs.
30 Days of Sex Talks for Ages 8-11
This book has broken down the “the talk” into 30 simple lessons for discussion including: puberty, curiosity, self-worth, gender roles, body image, media literacy, instincts that keep you safe, sexual identification, and intimate relationships, and much more. These topics can be used to start important dialogue with your child while allowing you to interject your feelings, thoughts, and cultural beliefs.
30 Days of Sex Talks for Ages 12+.
30 Days of Sex Talks makes it simple for you to discuss sex in the context in which it belongs; as part of a healthy relationship that also includes joy, laughter and the full range of emotion that defines human intimacy. The program includes topics like emotional intimacy, social media, consent, and creating healthy relationships.
Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr. Ages 3-6
Young children deserve to be armed early against internet dangers. Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr. makes it easy for parents to protect their young kids ages 3 to 6. Using gentle, age-appropriate messages, children will learn to Turn, Run & Tell when they are accidentally exposed to inappropriate content.
Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids
Want a comfortable way to talk with your kids about pornography? This newly revised edition of the original bestseller from Defend Young Minds makes that daunting discussion easy! Good Pictures Bad Pictures is a read-aloud story about a mom and dad who explain what pornography is, why it’s dangerous, and how to reject it.
Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings and YOU
A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identities, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the "facts of life" or “the birds and the bees," Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their values and beliefs while providing information about boundaries, safety, and joy.
You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things
Centering young people’s experiences of pressures and joy, risk and reward, and confusion and discovery, there are chapters on body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography, trauma, masturbation, consent, boundaries and safety in our media-saturated world, puberty and reproduction that includes trans, non-binary, and intersex bodies and experience, and more.
Racially and ethnically diverse, inclusive of cross-disability experience, this is a book for every kind of young person and every kind of family.
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Astonishingly, the average age of first viewing porn is now 11.5 years for boys, and with the advent of the Internet, it’s no surprise that young people are consuming more porn than ever. And, as Gail Dines shows, today’s porn is strikingly different from yesterday’s Playboy. As porn culture has become absorbed into pop culture, a new wave of entrepreneurs are creating porn that is even more hard-core, violent, sexist, and racist. Proving that porn desensitizes and actually limits our sexual freedom, Dines argues its omnipresence is a public health concern we can no longer ignore.