Sex Ed As It Should Be (Or Things I Wish I’d Learned in School)
As a sex educator at one of Babeland’s NYC stores, I’ve been fortunate enough to get to learn about so many aspects of sexuality, from sexual health to pleasure and everything in between. I’ve...
View ArticleDo We Need to Protect Our Kids from Seeing Vibrators at the Drugstore?
If your activist side needs a break from the Occupy Wall Street protests, you might want to wander over to a site called One Million Moms where someone is trying to start a write-in campaign to have...
View ArticleSex Positive Parenting Series in Seattle
October is National Family Sex Education month, and besides this awesome contest where you can win prizes, we are also hosting events in our stores. This weekend in Seattle we are hosting the Sex...
View ArticleFrank Sex Advice from a Father to his Daughter
I wanted to share with you a letter a friend of mine wrote, a father, for his 18-year-old daughter as she headed off to college. My Sweet Daughter, I have taught you so much over the years, and now I...
View ArticleToddlers and Preschoolers: Too Young for the Sex Talk?
It’s easy to think that your child is too young for a discussion about sexuality. But the continuous flow of information through the media makes it likely that your children are regularly exposed to...
View ArticleWhen The Book You Gave Someone’s Child Has Content They Might Not Approve of...
This post is about books and stories that help us to understand life, but that might not be so easy to digest. I remember falling in love with reading when I encountered my favorite author, Tom...
View ArticleWhat My Kids Learned About Sex…From Musicals
My older daughter loves musicals. She has aspirations to sing on Broadway. So we watch a lot of musicals, which I must admit (not having been a big musical fan), I have enjoyed very much. Musicals...
View ArticleHelp Make a Book about What Makes a Baby!
Dear parent: are you in for a surprise. If you have ever read a ‘where do babies come from’ book to your young child and cringed everytime you get to the explanation “daddy puts his seed in mommy...
View ArticleTo Give or Not to Give an 18 Year Old Girl a Vibrator? That is the Question…
There’s a bit of a debate going on over at BabyCenter about whether it’s ok to give your daughter a vibrator when she turns 18. They’ve all agreed that it’s generally not ok to give it to her in front...
View ArticleAdult Sleepover Etiquette
This week my partner and I are about to take a big step. He is going to stay the night on a school night while my son is home. I know that the idea of an adult sleepover is not a big deal to my son–his...
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