Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
Few issues get people’s blood boiling the way sex does. It’s no surprise that we come to blows over issues concerning teen sex and sexuality – we nearly come to blows when adults issues on the same topics come to [...]
Having “the talk” with our kids is never easy. Just getting through saying the various anatomic names can be daunting for even the most savvy or parents. It used to be that we would talk about the basics, reproduction, and add sexuality, birth control and life issues like babies later on as our kids got older.
Just like Captains Picard and Kirk on Star Trek, we encounter aliens daily as our kids evolve through puberty. Those aliens are none other than our teens and tweens, or Ts for short. I have to admit I was a nonbeliever that the alien force could start so young until my girls both entered the terrible Ts at the early age of 9. But, that is when it begins – tweendom and puberty.
