★ Sexual health professional and owner of the influential website Sex Ed Rescue, Cath Hakanson has over twenty-five years of experience helping shape youths. Now she’s here to share her no-nonsense approach to turning awkward family talks into bonding opportunities.
★By following her effective, down-to-earth methods, you’ll soon be building an environment with free-flowing information and understanding.

Is it time to discuss sexuality with your children? Delete the awkwardness with this easy-to-implement system.
Are you dreading having “The Talk” with your young ones? Are you struggling to open up the conversation about puberty with your fast-maturing offspring? Do you feel unprepared to help your kids learn about their changing bodies?

The Parents’ Guide to Puberty: Helping Your Child to Thrive provides mothers and fathers with a foolproof means of communication that will answer any question your curious kids can imagine. Pairing prompts with approachable talking points, Hakanson teaches techniques to reduce the stress and ensure nothing gets lost in translation.

In The Parents’ Guide to Puberty, you’ll discover:
Innovative strategies to broach the discussion, so your listeners are more receptive
Simple descriptions of biology so you can focus on feelings and solutions
Creative ways to approach anti-parent, stubborn, or just plain shy teens to make the talk fun
An extensive Q&A section to help you prepare for over 100 of the most-asked questions
Specific approaches for both boys and girls, and much, much more!
The Parents’ Guide to Puberty is an indispensable handbook that helps make sense of this difficult time. If you like uncommon wisdom, gentle instruction, and methods built on love, then you’ll adore Cath Hakanson’s sanity-saving tool.

Cath Hakanson
is an experienced author, sex educator, and mother of two who provides accessible and down-to-earth information for parents on how to talk to children about sex, bodies, gender, and childbirth. To find more titles and resources to help with sex education.

Cath Hakanson has been talking to clients about sex for the past 25 years as a nurse, midwife, sex therapist, researcher, blogger and educator. She’s spent the past 10 years trying to unravel why parents (herself included) struggle with sex education. Her solution was to create Sex Ed Rescue, an online resource that simplifies sex education and helps parent to empower their children with the right information about sex, so kids can talk to their parents about anything, no matter what.

Cath has lived all over Australia but currently lives in Perth with her partner, 2 children, and ever-growing menagerie of pets. Despite having an unusual profession, she bakes, sews, and knits for sanity, collects sexual trivia, and tries really hard not to embarrass her children in public. Well, most of the time anyway!