I have written this
new book as a help for parents, teachers and others working with
children to help provide the words to use when those difficult questions
come up about sex and gender issues. These are always difficult subjects to talk about,
but are especially so when talking with children. While the
information is provided in a simple and straightforward way, it is the
compilation of working many years in education and working with young people
as a teacher, school counselor, and as a therapist in private practice.
Linda Goldman
"What
does sex mean?"
"Where
do babies come from?"
"Why
is my body changing?"
Sex
is never an easy subject for discussion and adults often struggle
to find the right words when talking about it with children. This
book explores children's thoughts and feelings on the subject of
sex and provides parents and other caring adults with guidance on
how to respond to difficult
questions.
The author explores some of
the most common questions children ask about sex and provides
sensitive yet candid answers, phrased in a way that children will
be able to understand and relate to. Each chapter is devoted to a
particular issue, such as how babies are made, relationships, and
the differences between boys and girls. The book recognizes the
emotions and reactions of children and family members and includes
separate conclusions for adults and children.
This guide offers useful advice for parents and
carers and will also be of interest to counsellors and other
professionals working with children.
Author:
Linda Goldman is a licensed counselor and has a
Fellow in Thanantology: Death, Dying, and Bereavement with an MS
degree in counselling and Master's Equivalency in early childhood
education. Linda worked as a teacher and counsellor in the school
system for 20 years. She has written many articles on counselling
and taught and lectured at various universities, most recently in
the Graduate Program of Counselling at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland. Linda has a private grief therapy practice in
Chevy Chase, Maryland, where she now lives. She is author of
Children also Grieve: Talking about Death and Healing and Great
Answers to Difficult Questions About Death, both published by
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Contents:
1. Where do Babies Come From? 2. How do Babies Get
Inside a Mommy's Tummy? 3. How are Babies Born? 4. What Does
Pregnant Mean? 5. Can You Tell Me About When I Was a Baby? 6. How
are Boys' and Girls' Bodies Different? 7. What Parts of my Body
are Private? 8. Can we Touch or be Touched? 9. Is my Body Supposed
to Change? What's Happening? 10. What does Sex Mean? 11. Am I
Falling in Love? What Should I Do? 12. What is Gender? Do Boys and
Girls Act and Feel in the Same Way? What Does Gay Mean and
Straight Mean? 12. Are There Different Kinds of Families? Is That
OK?
Readership:
Parents, counselors, social workers, teachers and
other professionals who work with children
Additional
points:
Question and answer layout and an informal style
make the book very accessible.
Author is a recognised
expert in child counselling.
Fourth book in the popular Great Answers to
Difficult Questions series:
Great Answers to Difficult Questions about
Adoption
ISBN: 978-1-84310-671-5
Great Answers to Difficult Questions about
Divorce
ISBN: 978-1-84310-672-2
Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Death
ISBN: 978-1-84905-805-6
Jessica Kingsley Publishers - 22
years of independent publishing 1987-2009
116 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7833 2307 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7837 2917
www.jkp.com
Jessica Kingsley Publishers is a limited company
registered in England. Registered number: 2073602
Linda Goldman
7801 Connecticut Ave
Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815
301 656 4344
ANTICIPATED
RELEASE DATE 2010
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Children entering this new millennium are faced with life
issues that were unspeakable to us growing up as children. Death related tragedies such as
suicide, homicide, and AIDS, and non-death related traumas such as divorce and separation,
foster care and abandonment, bullying and terrorism, and abuse and violence have left our
children sitting alone in their homes, unfocused and unmotivated in their classrooms, and
terrorized in their
communities. They are overwhelmed with their feelings and distracted by their thoughts.
Survivorship of these traumas creates for any child a loss of their assumptive
world of safety, protection, and predictability. The role of the media as a surrogate
communal parent and extended family further creates
this same traumatic loss of this assumptive world for many if not most of our children.
Children naturally assume their world will be filled with safety, kindness, and meaning as
they attempt to answer the universal questions of who am I and why am I here. All too
often these qualities seem to disappears into a nightmarish universe of randomness,
isolation, and unpredictability. This leaves many of todayıs young people immersed in a
new assumption: There is no future. There is no safety. There is no connectedness or
meaning to my life. By joining together as a global grief team, caring adults can
co-create an assumptive world that again provides a childıs birthright to presume love,
generosity, and value will be integral parts of their lives.
We are raising a segment of our youth that are numbed, disconnected from their hearts,
their minds, and their consciousnesses, and choosing all to easily, other alternatives
such as drugs and alcohol, crime and violence as ways of coping with the loss of their
assumptive world. In yesterdayıs world we may have protected ourselves from trauma by
having fire drills in our schools. In todayıs world our kids protect themselves from
danger in the schools by having gun-fire drills. Too many of todayıs school children are
grieving children. So many of our boys and girls are born into a world of grief and loss
issues that live inside their homes and lay waiting for them outside their doorsteps, on
their streets, schoolyards, and classrooms. Increasingly, children are traumatized by
prevailing social and societal loss issues in their families, their schools, their nation,
and their world.
Text adapted with permission from Life and Loss: A Guide to Help
Grievng Children, Breaking the Silence: A Guide To Help Children With Complicated Grief:
Suicide, Homicide, AIDS, Violence, and Abuse and Helping The Grieving Child in the School
Healing Magazine (Kidspeace)and Growing Up Fast (NES).
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