Project Parent: Preparing Yourself for Your Child's Sex Education

Parents worry about when to start teaching their kids about sex. Few received an adequate sex education from their own parents and being faced with it now can feel overwhelming. This book is the first of its kind to teach parents how to prepare themselves to meet the challenge. The author a long-time sex educator therapist and researcher knows the pain that many parents experience. Accordingly she has developed a 9-step program to take them through this process. Each step provides brief information and practical exercises that guide parents into becoming the definitive sex educator in their childs world. The exercises help them develop a much fuller understanding of when where and how their own attitudes and beliefs developed as well as clarifying what their values are. Advice and techniques for self-calming are included to help parents ease their anxiety about having sex conversations with their child. The author also demonstrates ways for parents to raise the effectiveness of their communication skills and parental teamwork to a much higher level. Project Parent: Preparing Yourself for Your Childs Sex Education doesnt stint on the nuts-and-bolts information. Readers will learn when topics are age appropriate general resources for expanding their own sex education and guidance on how to inform the other people in their childs life about their wishes regarding their childs upbringing. These covers members of extended and blended families medical and school personnel childcare or foster-care settings and religious communities. In addition the author gives information and resources for a long list of specific child-rearing challenges: medical problems mental illness past sexual or physical abuse and children who are gender diverse questioning WHAT DO YOU MEAN? or transgender deaf blind or on the autism spectrum. Parents cant just get over their anxieties fear or worries about their childs sex education. They need information and insight and this is the book that will give them that. A no-nonsense and caring guide it will navigate parents successfully through the rough waters of sex education.