• It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
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    Book Review—It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health

    How to Talk with Your Child about Sex Do you have an older child or teen? Have you talked with them about puberty and sex yet? I didn’t think the puberty talk was that bad. Really, it was a series of smaller talks as I’ve always been very open with my girls, from a young age, about menstruation and the changes that happen during puberty. (You kind of have to be when they follow you into the bathroom as a toddler.) I also signed my oldest daughter up for a class through her school with some of her peers that helped make sure all the bases were covered as far…

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    Children’s Book Review

    I read a lot of children’s books, as I’m sure a lot of other parents with young children do. I don’t think other parents read them the same way I do though. At least not the majority of them. As a writer, I’m constantly analyzing books as I read them to my daughter, to see what works and what doesn’t. Some kid’s books make me wonder why they were published. Others, it’s obvious. One book we recently checked out from the library made me laugh out loud. It’s obvious why it was published. It’s the cutest