<p abp="824">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.</p>

<p abp="825">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.</p>

<p abp="826">Each step provides brief information and practical exercises that guide parents into becoming the definitive sex educator in their child&rsquo;s 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.</p>

<p abp="827">The author also demonstrates ways for parents to raise the effectiveness of their communication skills and parental teamwork to a much higher level.</p>

<p abp="828">&ldquo;Project Parent: Preparing Yourself for Your Child&rsquo;s Sex Education&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t 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 child&rsquo;s life about their wishes regarding their child&rsquo;s upbringing. These covers members of extended and blended families, medical and school personnel, childcare or foster-care settings, and religious communities.</p>

<p abp="829">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.</p>

<p abp="830">Parents can&rsquo;t <em abp="831">just</em> get over their anxieties, fear, or worries about their child&rsquo;s 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.</p>

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