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Teaching Kids About Sex

Banning the Word 'Penis?' Parenting Fail

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 11.28.2012 | Parents
Read More: Motherhood, Parenting, Sex Education, Language, Vulva, Penis, Slang, Teaching Kids About Sex, Parents-Moms, Parents News
Dr. Logan Levkoff

When we deliberately or inadvertently support our children's use of slang, it's as if we tell them: Yes, there is something gross or silly or ugly about that body part. Don't ever call it by its real name.

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Why So Bleak?

Andrew Smiler | Posted 06.04.2012 | Women
Read More: Hbo, Gender Differences, Sex Ed, Relationships, Women and Relations, Sex and Dating, Men and Relationships, Relationship Advice, Girls, Lena Dunham, Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus, Teaching Kids About Sex, Women News
Andrew Smiler

Girls talk about relationships almost exclusively with other girls or women. Boys get to figure it out for themselves, leading the sexes to different levels of understanding about relationships.

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Of Meat, Sex Education, and Conservative Ideologies

Cory Silverberg | Posted 12.21.2011 | Home
Read More: Vegetarian, Sex Education, Sexuality, Abstinence Only Education, Sex Ed, Sex Educators, Sex Education in Schools, Teaching Kids About Sex, Home News
Cory Silverberg

Schools can and should teach about the nutritional value of meat. That's what schools do. At home I can and should teach about the ethical and moral weight of eating meat. That's what parents do. The same is true for sex.

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