Comments on: Celebrating Femininity with our Daughters: the First Step to Healthy Sexuality

By: lisafaraway

lisafaraway — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:36:41 +0000

Thanks, all. I’ve been traveling and just now saw that this was posted and that you had responded. That evening really was a celebration and I continue to feel the good fruit of it in my relationship with my daughter. I feel so thankful.

By: jemila K

jemila K — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:18:07 +0000

I’m inspired by your sharing — thank you!

By: Tami Martin

Tami Martin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:15:04 +0000

What a wonderful gift to give your daughter! I had a similar upbringing – our bodies were shameful and developing a tall and curvy one that got noticed early was difficult for me to reconcile to my faith. I have tried to do what you have done for your daughters with my own two girls and now with my granddaughter…starting with learning proper names of her body parts!

Great post!

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:14:45 +0000

Bravo!! You did a wonderful thing for your daughter. That night was a crucial moment in her sexual development. When I talk to parents about how to talk to kids about sex, I encourage them to think of it as a right of passage, a milestone, a celebration!

And I’ll add that a lot of the adult women that I work with will report that they had little or no sex education in the home. Similar to your growing-up story, they got the impression that sex and their bodes were shameful. One woman was so saddened by the fact that her dad was an OB/GYN and yet she felt that he was resistant to talking to her about sexual issues and bodily changes. How sad that he could do it all day at work, but couldn’t be attentive to his daughter’s need to talk to him. He could have done so much to affirm and inform her.