What’s That Tingly Feeling?

What’s That Tingly Feeling?

A confident approach to sexuality, feelings, and the body from an early age. With 80 answers to children’s direct questions

How are babies made? What’s that nice tingly feeling down there? Body smarts and sex education are important in raising strong children, allowing even the youngest to form a healthy sense of self and of their body. But how can parents offer age-appropriate support in sexual development? How to respond when children play doctor, discover masturbation, or go too far in their games? And how to protect one’s child from sexual assault?
A sex educator and therapist Magdalena Heinzl lays out the basics of age appropriate sex education and helps parents answer 80 questions likely to be asked by curious kids. She also encourages parents to rethink their own taboos and to remain trusted confidants even in awkward situations. Due space is given to such questions as consent, media savviness, and a healthy sense of the own body.

• Sex education for our times, full of humor and wisdom
• 80 questions children ask—and how parents can answer them without awkwardness
• Reinforces body positivity and confidence in kids