The educational work of the last 50 years has been a colorful mixture of silence, fuss, Dr. Summer and sex education combined with a lot of giggling behind closed doors. To this day, many adults tense up when their offspring suddenly have very explicit questions about their origins. Not always out of prudishness, often because the right words are missing to explain in a child-friendly way what exactly is happening. After all, small children don’t need to know everything in detail. But even the older ones have questions, and they don’t want to come to us parents with all of them. All the better if you have the right guide at hand.
Unenlightened
And let’s be honest: many of us are surprisingly unenlightened. Of course we know how sex works, but most of us still use incorrect names for our genitals, don’t have much of an idea about their anatomy down to the belly button, and we only know what exactly happens during the cycle or how the pill works Help from Google explain. After all, we were born in a time when it was taboo to talk about it. Even with our best friend, we only talk about everything downstairs after we’ve enjoyed a glass or two of wine. It’s very liberating and not at all strange or dirty. Of course this doesn’t apply to all of us, but many of us adults can learn a lot from these books.
Our children grow up differently
Because of the unrestricted access to porn and the like, sex becomes a topic among kids from a very early age. The job of us parents is no longer just to explain how babies are made, but rather to convey that porn is not reality, Instagram is not reality and that it is totally okay to be different than what we see in social media shown to the media. That’s why contemporary educational books are not just about the body, sexuality or having children, but also about the many feelings surrounding it. Explicit, clear and without taboos. So have fun clicking through our small but fine selection of great educational books. And who knows, maybe you’ll learn something new too.