The challenge all parents face
The fact that external and inner sexual pressures emerge at the precise time children begin rejecting parental advice, makes parenting on the subject of sex a challenge. What can a parent do?
Sex is a primal drive, the life forceβs way to guarantee the survival of the species. Sex should also be a comfort, a healthy way to release tension, and the bonding glue for loving relationships. Sadly and throughout time, sex has also been a source of pain and a weapon. In todayβs world it is used to sell almost anything you can name. Finally, diverse cultural, religious, and parental beliefs create mixed messages. No wonder parents shiver with anxiety at the thought of their kids making their way into sexual adulthood.
What can a parent do?
Katherine Gordy Levine offers tips and suggestions for enforcing your values in a society that sends confusing mixed messages to teens and even to pre-teens about sexual behavior. She also details her personal rules for what she calls responsible sex. Finally, she shows you how to best combat all the other messages.
Expert advice
Katherine is not only a licensed therapist, former professor, and director of mental health crisis teams, she and her husband have cared for over three hundred foster children, mostly teens and each in trouble with the law. Her suggestions are both clinically sound, but also based on practical experience. She knows what works and what does not work. Moreover, she is on the side of all parents.
The ultimate survival guide for parents of teenagers
This book is based on a chapter from the book When Good Kids Do Bad Things - A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers. This 265 page invaluable handbook on parenting teenagers deals with a vast array of common concerns and issues. 11 of the 17 chapters of this book have been revised and released as short eBooks. This is volume 7. The complete includes:
vol. 1: When Good Kids Get You In A Gotcha War
vol. 2: When Good Kids Struggle in School
vol. 3: When Good Kids Hang Out With The Wrong Crowd
vol. 4: When Good Kids Dress Makes You Stress
vol. 5: When Good Kids Lie
vol. 6: When Good Kids Take Risks
vol. 7: When Good Kids Have Sex
vol. 8: When Good Kids Run Away
vol. 9: When Good Kids Break The Law
vol. 10: When Good Kids Do Drugs and/or Alcohol
vol. 11: When Good Kids Get Depressed
You can become friends again with the adolescent stranger in your house.