Parent Lunch & Learn: How To Talk with Children about Sex and Sexuality
Mon, Mar 04
|Concord Community Church


Time & Location
Mar 04, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Concord Community Church, 9826 Concord Rd, Brentwood, TN 37027, USA
Guests
About the event
How To Talk with Children about Sex and Sexuality
Parents are the primary sexuality educators of their children and most parents want their children to grow into sexually healthy adults. This process starts in childhood: it’s important to have conversations about body image, respectful and effective communication, relationships skills (romantic and non-romantic), emotional closeness, how to keep bodies healthy and safe, knowing how bodies work and teaching consent.
At the end of this workshop, parents will:
Gain tools and Increase their confidence and comfort to have these conversations with children. Insights and tips for all ages/stages of development will be given.
Facilitator:
Emi Canahuati, MA is an award-winning certified sexuality educator who has been working with parents for over 25 years. She helps parents have conversations with their children about sex and sexuality so that children can grow to be sexually healthy adults. Through her education practice, Talk and Thrive Education, LLC (www.talkandthrive.com) she facilitates parent workshops and coaching and professional training. She is also a professor at Vanderbilt University and UT Knoxville.