The Blog is Back!
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Welcome Readers!
After a long absence this blog is up and running again with exciting news about THE TALK and a commitment to share many of the questions and comments I’ve been receiving from concerned parents since publication.
First, THE TALK has now been published in Italian and Polish and is currently being translated into Mandarin for publication in Beijing! If you google “E ORA DI PARLARNE Sharon Maxwell”, there are numerous references and reviews of the Italian version of THE TALK in blogs, magazines, newspapers, and radio shows. Emails from parents in Italy have been heart touching. One mother of a three-year-old girl wrote how happy she was that she now has a way of thinking and talking about sex that makes sense to her. She no longer fears that her daughter is destined to make the same mistakes she made. YES!! It seems that people are more comfortable talking about this topic and asking questions in email form, rather than on the blog. I’m going to try and insert one theme a week that has presented itself in my classes or in emails and see if we can start a dialogue.
I was recently presenting at a Waldorf school and was struck by how well my curriculum aligns with their philosophy. Giving teens a conceptual framework for understanding all the aspects of human sexuality, from the social power of sexy to the biological facts of reproduction, is essential. Anything short of that leaves them patchwork of disconnected facts and feelings in a cultural intent on capitalizing on their insecurities. We can do better! What do you think?
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