Sharon Maxwell, Ph.D., has been a practicing clinical psychologist for seventeen years. She won a national award from Parenting Publications of America for her series of articles on sex education and recognition for her sexual health curriculum. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts features her work in its brochures on sex education in a DVD on teens and drunk driving. Maxwell lives near Boston.
?This is an excellent book for parents on how to talk to their
children about sex. Dr. Maxwell gives practical guidance on sharing
values with their children. Her focus on teaching self-discipline
and developing self-control is a refreshing counterpoint to a pop
culture that says we should have it all right now. I highly
recommend "The Talk" to every parent.?
?Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty
Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School and
Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children's
Center
aThis is an excellent book for parents on how to talk to their
children about sex. Dr. Maxwell gives practical guidance on sharing
values with their children. Her focus on teaching self-discipline
and developing self-control is a refreshing counterpoint to a pop
culture that says we should have it all right now. I highly
recommend "The Talk" to every parent.a
aDr. Alvin F. Poussaint, Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty
Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School and
Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children's
Center
aDr. Maxwell brings to this issue a wealth of experience and
insight. When working with our synagogue teens and parents her
approach was honest, yet sensitive, blunt, yet caring. As an
observer of the society around her she shows both keen interest and
perspicacity. Teens and parents would be well advised to take to
heart her message of sexual responsibility and awareness to combat
the complicated, often contradictory, messages of our society.a
--Rabbi Starr, Temple Israel - Sharon, MA
"The mere thought of talking to their children about sex turns the
average parent's thoughts to mush, drains the saliva completely
from their mouths, and makes them nearly faint dead away. These are
otherwise professionally competent and highly articulate adults we
are talking about, mind you. But we cannot escape the fact that we
parents are precisely the ones primarily responsible for shaping
our children's beliefs and character and giving them sane and
trustworthy guidance in the navigation of this techno-erotic
culture of ours. Here is where Sharon Maxwell helps us, thankfully.
This book will not give you pat answers, but it will give youa
thoroughly complete picture of today's cultural landscape, together
with a well rounded discussion of the nuances surrounding this
issue. I wish I'd had this guide when my own son was younger - it
would have given me useful tools, information and perspective, and
also reduced my stammering! I enthusiastically commend this book to
you, and wish you great success in this most important task of
parenthood."
--Pastor Jim Pocock, Trinitarian Congregational Church - Wayland,
MA
"This is an excellent book for parents on how to talk to their
children about sex. Dr. Maxwell gives practical guidance on sharing
values with their children. Her focus on teaching self-discipline
and developing self-control is a refreshing counterpoint to a pop
culture that says we should have it all right now. I highly
recommend "The Talk" to every parent."
-Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty
Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School and
Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children's Center
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