Title:
How to talk with teens about love, relationships & S-E-X ; a guide for parents
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ISBN:
9781575421025
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, MN : Free Spirit Pub., 2002.
Physical Description:
254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Steps on the Way to Talking with Your Teen -- Define Your Values and Goals -- Is Sex Good or Bad? -- Cultural and Religious Influences -- Your Values -- Your Goals for Your Teen -- The Double Standard -- Your Values vs. Your Partner's Values -- Your Values vs. Your Teen's Values -- Love-Sex, Fun-Sex, and Sex-Sex -- Understand Your Teen's Personality -- A Different World -- The Miron Model -- Using the Model -- Understand Your Teen's Sexual Development -- Infancy -- Early Childhood -- Middle Childhood -- Puberty -- Understand Your Teen's Relationships -- What Is Intimacy? -- Your Teen's Peer Group -- Dating -- Is It Love? -- Breaking Up -- Choose Your Model and Customize It -- The Interpersonal Toolbox -- Topics and Influences -- What Do You Want Your Teen to Do--or Not Do? -- Helping Your Teen Make Sexual Decisions -- Sex and the Teen with Special Needs -- Sex Education in School -- Talk with Your Teen -- Setting the Stage -- What to Say When: A Sexuality Education Timeline -- Building Communication Skills -- Conversation Starters -- Choosing Your Words -- What If Your Teen Won't Talk with You? -- Letting Go -- Be Prepared for Almost Anything -- Privacy -- When You Walk In on Your Teen -- When Your Teen Walks In on You -- When Your Teen Lies to You -- Teen Pregnancy -- Body Art and Body Piercing -- Pornography -- Sexual Predators -- Sexual Harassment -- Sexual Abuse and Sexual Assault -- Abusive Relationships -- Respect and Power -- Issues to Know About and Talk About -- Female Sexual Development -- A Time of Change -- Hormones: Nature's Chemical Messengers -- The Perfect Body -- The Breasts -- The Clitoris and the External Genitals -- The Hymen -- The Vagina -- The Ovaries -- Menstruation -- The First Visit to the Gynecologist -- Male Sexual Development -- Active Hormones, Big Changes -- The Perfect Body -- The Perfect Penis -- The Real Penis -- Erection -- Semen -- Ejaculation -- Sexual Orientation -- Sexual Orientation--or Sexual Preference? -- What If Your Teen Is Questioning? -- What If Your Teen Is Gay? -- Sexual Expression -- What Is Sex? -- Masturbation -- Outercourse -- Oral Sex -- Anal Sex -- Sexual Intercourse -- Safer Sex -- Sexually Transmitted Infections -- Curable STIs -- Incurable STIs -- History Quiz -- Reducing the Risk -- Preventing STIs and Pregnancy -- Sexual Pleasure -- Love with the Perfect Stranger? -- Sexual Fantasies -- Sexual Arousal and Response -- Orgasm -- Erotica -- Sex Toys.
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Summary:
Many parents find it difficult or even impossible to talk with their teens about love, relationships, and especially sex. But the real choice we face is not if our teens will learn about these topics, but how they will learn and who will do the teaching. With this book as your guide, you can be the expert your kids turn to for advice, answers, and help in making positive choices. In more than two decades of working with parents and teens, authors Amy and Charles Miron have heard it all -- from the things your kids think they know to the things you probably don't. Openly, comfortably, without mincing words, they share their expertise on everything from sexual development to sexually transmitted infections, teen relationships to teen pregnancy, hormones to harassment, and much more.
