San Diego Therapy News - Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT, EMT

June 24, 2018

Book Reviews: Teaching your child about sexuality

As we’ve been going through this Healthy Sexuality series, I thought it might be helpful to write a couple book reviews from sources I’ve found. Hopefully they will be useful for you and your family and aid you in discussing healthy…

June 17, 2018

Developing Healthy Teen Sexuality: Ages 12 years to 21 years

The teen years are often relationally very difficult for both parents and their kids (when I say often I mean I don’t know a single teen family that is not struggling!) Teens are seeking to establish themselves outside of their…

Developing Healthy Sexuality in Preteens: Ages 8 years to 11 years

By this time, your preteen and their peers are heading into the early stages of puberty (generally earlier for girls than boys). This causes a huge increase in kids’ curiosity about sexuality and what that means for them socially, emotionally…

June 8, 2018

Childhood Sexual Exploration vs. Childhood Sexual Abuse

Has my child been abused, or is this behavior normal? Childhood sexual behaviors scare us. As parents we want to distinguish between what is normal and what is childhood sexual abuse. Assessing this is not an easy task considering that…

June 3, 2018

Developing Healthy Sexuality in Infancy and Childhood Ages Under 8

There are strategic ways that we can talk to children, and approach sexuality in the early years, that can set children up to develop a healthy sense of their sexuality for life. Providing healthy and good touch, bringing a matter…

May 31, 2018

Preventing Child Abuse

DEVELOPING HEALTHY SEXUALITY IN YOUNG CHILDREN: PREVENTING CHILD ABUSE We all want to keep our children safe from danger, especially from sexual child abuse and molestation. At the same time we don’t want them walking around fearful of the outside…

May 22, 2018

Helping Our Kids Develop Healthy Sexuality By Understanding Our Own

Part of helping our kids develop healthy sexuality is looking at what we as parents are bringing to the table. For a lot of us, the thought of talking to our kids about developing a healthy sexuality is hugely anxiety…

May 16, 2018

Is _ Okay?

I get asked this question in its various forms, especially in Christian circles, all the time. Is maturbation, same-sex marriage, sex before marriage, pornography, etc. okay? All these difficult sex conversations can be difficult to answer as a family. Please…

May 14, 2018

What is a Healthy Sexuality?

When I’m considering a concept like healthy sexuality, I like to think of the end product. So if you produce children who have a healthy concept of sexuality, what will they be like in their teens, in their 20’s, and…

May 11, 2018

Developing Healthy Sexuality in Children: Series intro

Masters and Johnson (from the book Sex and Human Loving) have a saying that I appreciate, that as parents we don’t really have a choice about whether our children get sex information, instead we can only choose whether or not…

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