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It's Perfectly Normal Robie Harris Summary

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Teaching sexuality to growing children has become paramount, a prerogative for both teachers and parents. Sexuality education is a crucial stepping stone towards ensuring the general well-being, sexual health, and reproductive health as children develop and experience changes. To this end, Robie Harris’ book “It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing up, Sex, and Sexual Heath” provides a much needed guideline towards educating children not only on their developmental changes but also on health issues such as HIV/AIDS. Harris’s discussion in this book goes to a deep length to provide information on what sexual relations are about, gender issues, making babies, and sexual desire. The author specifically targets children undergoing puberty …show more content…

This is an important step towards having sexual talk with children, ensuring that both the adult and the child are comfortable to discuss such issues. With this in mind, Harris’ book provides well-researched and amiable information on social, emotional, psychological, and physical changes that children in their puberty will experience. To further dive deeper into the topic, the author discusses related topics such as sexual orientation, pregnancy, sexual reproduction, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual abuse, and birth control. Besides ensuring that parents, guardians, and teachers are able to comfortably discuss sexual issues with children, Harris also ensures that proper, timely, and important information on sex and related issues are discussed excellently. Therefore, the book provides an important and informative guideline towards ensuring that adults are ready to discuss sexual education with kids in their puberty, how to deal with the changes, and how to ensure that they remain safe in the fast-changing world. Each and every section is accompanied by illustrations by Michael Emberly to ensure that children grasp the concepts discussed with …show more content…

To further ensure that children grasp the concept of differences in families, the author describes the types of families that children may come from. This section also includes a discussion on sexual intercourse, conception, and the essential development of a baby in the mother’s womb and after birth. This section also includes education on making decisions for children in their puberty in regard to sexual intercourse. These decisions include abstinence, delaying sexual intercourse, abortion, and birth control. Towards the end, the book has a clear and straight-forward discussion on sexual health matters, sexually transmitted infections, sexual abuse, blood borne diseases, and ultimately online

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