About fifteen years ago Mira Kirshenbaum and Charles Foster wrote a fantastic book on parents and teenagers called Parent/Teen Breakthrough: The Relationship Approach. It encourages a delightful approach to parenting teenagers: build a good relationship with them. Make your parenting choices based, at least in part, on what kind of relationship those choices [...]
Archives for May, 2007
virginity and guilt
A friend of mine recently e-mailed me some of her thoughts on losing her virginity. I am posting them here, anonymously, with her approval. It can be tricky for a parent to walk the line between fostering healthy sexuality and encouraging postponing sexual behavior until it is age appropriate.
It’s no secret that I [...]
The Center for Sex and Culture
I like these folks. I just posted a link to the Center for Sex and Culture from my website, and think the organization is worthy of a post here as well. Go take a look at their website.
Their mission is to provide non-judgmental, sex-positive sexuality education [...]
looking sexy
I recently heard this story:
A conservative mother and her 5th grade daughter were at a fair. The daughter was wearing a relatively skimpy tank top which was low cut in the back. The daughter was off with her friends, and got a henna tatoo on her back above her tank top. When [...]
