It helps our sons to have a visual to help them learn new concepts. This is an anatomy figure from my book, I’m a Boy, Hormones! that describes what a hair follicle looks like in the skin. The reason your 11-years-old and older son benefits…
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13+ year old boys
How Informed is Your Son About His Reproductive Anatomy?
June 13, 2019
I am looking for more and more ways to teach our sons about their body. Although the changes during puberty are equally as important to a boy as they are to a girl, it seems that there is not the same emphasis on making sure…
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Does Talking about Sex Mean Your Adolescent Will Want to Have Sex?
April 4, 2019
Is it your opinion that if you talk to your adolescent about sexual topics, it might encourage them to try it out? I have heard this argument frequently from parents, but I have a different perspective. Recently, a small group of high school girls were…
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How to Help Your Son Deal with Spontaneous Erections
February 28, 2019
I was sitting next to a 14-year-old boy recently and I noticed that he kept pulling at his shirt so that it covered the front of him. He seemed nervous about something and then I realized, he was preparing for battle with his penis that…
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Your Adolescent Son’s Changing Brain
August 16, 2018
Have you noticed that your adolescent son has become unusually concerned about how he looks and what he is wearing? This typically comes as a surprise to most parents because their son certainly didn’t express these concerns just a year ago. With middle school right…
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