The Parent's Guide to Puberty: Proven Parenting Tips for Talking About Sex, Body Maturation and Teen Anxiety

by Cath Hakanson

“Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.” –  Rick Springfield, Grammy Award-Winning Musician

If you are like most parents or guardians of ‘tween or teenage boys and girls, you are a bit anxious about talking about puberty, sex and hormones with your suddenly emotional child.   Even though we have all survived puberty, many things have changed in our culture since we were teenagers.

In The Parents’ Guide to Puberty, teen communication and sex education expert Cath Hankanson draws on over 25 years of experience providing parenting advice as a sexual health professional and owner of the Sex Ed Rescue website to offer you proven parenting tips that anybody can use to teach teenagers about difficult topics like menstruation, acne, mood swings, safe sex and body maturation for tweens and teens.

Inside the pages of this amazing puberty guide, you will find a wealth of information, written in a casual and open style, which includes honest advice on surviving

Innovative strategies to reduce the awkwardness of “The Talk”, so your kids are more receptive to family communicationSimple descriptions of biology and physical changes, so you can focus on your teen’s confusion, mood swings and interactions with friends and siblingsCreative ways to approach children who are ‘anti-parent’, stubborn, or just plain shy, so you can make the talk funAn extensive Puberty Question and Answer section to help you prepare for over 100 of the most-asked questionsSpecific approaches for boys puberty and girls puberty discussionsThe Parents’ Guide to Puberty is an indispensable positive parenting guide that helps make sense of this difficult and confusing time in your teenager’s life. If you like uncommon wisdom, gentle instruction, and methods built on love, then you’ll adore Cath Hakanson’s sanity-saving tool!

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Genres: Parenting

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 29, 2021

About the author

I'm Cath Hakanson, from Sex Ed Rescue, and when gifts were being handed out by the 3 fairies (you know, the ones from Sleeping Beauty), I was given the gift of being able to comfortably talk about sex.

I have a string of qualifications longer than your arm, over 25 years of clinical sexpertise under my well-worn belt, and have helped thousands of parents along the way.

Combine that with my practical down-to-earth approach & passion for helping families, and you'll be talking to your kids about sex, before you know it!