Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex »

Deborah M. Roffman, M.S., a nationally certified Sexuality and Family Life Educator, is an associate editor of the Journal of Sex Education and Therapy and the author of Sex and Sensibility. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and USA Today. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

A new paradigm for talking honestly about sex and sexuality with our children

Los Angeles Times

A wonderful book. It untangles the knotted ball of yarn that we have made of the subject [of sex]. It is also a clearheaded script for talking to your children about sex.

Preface: My Mother Always Wanted Me to Be a Sex Educator, and Other Myths

Part 1 New Ways of Thinking and Talking


1. Starting Over: We Can't Get There From Here
2. Age Appropriateness: Too Much, Too Little, Or Just Right?
3. What Is Sex, Really?
4. Values: Becoming Your Child's Cultural Interpreter
5. Sexuality: More Who We Are Than What We Do
6. Gender: Girls Aren't from Venus, Boys Aren't from Mars
7. Partnership: Families and Schools Working Together
   
   Part 2 Raising Sexually Healthy Children
   
   
8. Sexual Health: Five Universal Needs Along the Way
9. Affirmation: Seeing and Hearing Children as They Are
10. Information Giving: Empowering Children Through Knowledge
11. Values Clarification: Highlighting "Right" Thinking
12. Limit Setting: Keeping Our Children Safe and Healthy
13. Anticipatory Guidance: Making Ourselves Dispensable
14. Sexual Orientation: Why and How It's Everyone's Business

Notes