- ISBN13: 9780738205205
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
A new paradigm for talking honestly about sex and sexuality with our children. With a rare directness and clarity about sex and reproduction, sexual values, and cultural influences on sexuality, Deborah Roffman challe… More >>
Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent’s Guide to Talking Sense About Sex
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This book was, in a word, brilliant. Roffman shines in her first published book. Witty and insightful, it should be on every parent’s bookshelf.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is an excellent resource for parents with young children or anyone considering having children. This book will help you communicate more effectively with them concerning sex, sexuality and gender issues.
It is informative, funny and easy to understand. She gives a lot of examples of what she is writing about so that you have something to go on in discussing the topic with your own child or children.
Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t know what are the rates for teen pregnancy in the US, but I KNOW that unwanted pregnancy is a reality for young adults. Every year one or two of my college students becomes pregnant. I can only recall three times in over ten years when the student was either married or in a committed relationship. If your offspring is planning to go off and live on his/her own, read this book so you can talk about sexuality before they leave your house. The book is somewhat verbose and some sections could be shortened, but I gave it 5 stars because what Roffman has to say, and how she says it, it’s very important.
Rating: 5 / 5
Just what parents need to know – the big picture, not just biology and warnings. Very thoughtful.
Rating: 5 / 5
Teachers as well as parents will welcome this excellent book that explains children’s sexuality education needs at each stage of development. Deborah Roffman is a powerful advocate for children, understanding that in a society that gives confusing and exploitative messages about sexuality, children are desperate for communication from the caring adults in their lives. The book is full of specific examples, often humorous, of difficult situations and questions from Roffman’s life as a parent and teacher. Her responses are models of simplicity and good sense. Every adult commited to helping young people develop into sexually healthy adults will want a copy of this book. It provides remarkably clear guidelines for how to do it!
Rating: 5 / 5