by Kathryn de Bruin | Jun 26, 2018 | Happy Families: Family Health and Well-being, Raising Children, Sexuality
Review of Passport to Purity: A Weekend Program for Parents and Preteens by Kathryn de Bruin and Mariah McQueen Dennis and Barbara Rainey came up with a program called Passport to Purity. It is a weekend Getaway Kit to work through with your preteen child. It looks...
by Kathryn de Bruin | Jun 24, 2018 | Happy Families: Family Health and Well-being, Raising Children, 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 sexuality with your children....
by Kathryn de Bruin | Jun 17, 2018 | Happy Families: Family Health and Well-being, Raising Children, Sexuality
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 family unit while parents are working...
by Kathryn de Bruin | Jun 17, 2018 | Happy Families: Family Health and Well-being, Raising Children, Sexuality
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 and relationally. Their...
by Kathryn de Bruin | Jun 8, 2018 | Happy Families: Family Health and Well-being, Raising Children, Sexuality
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 not all children who are abused...
by Kathryn de Bruin | Jun 3, 2018 | Happy Families: Family Health and Well-being, Raising Children, Sexuality
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 of fact stance and neutrality to...
