by Dr. Melisa | Jul 8, 2024 | Sex + Relationships
If you haven’t told your child about sex by 4th grade, I hope you'll read this. Every year, I seem to get at least one phone call from a panic-stricken mom with a child in the third or fourth grade. It usually goes something like this (in a flustered whisper)…...
by Dr. Melisa | Mar 26, 2024 | Her Changing Body, Sex + Relationships
I meet a lot of parents through Girlology and in my own community who still assume their child’s school will teach them something about puberty and reproductive health. That’s a pretty normal expectation. In fact, according to Girlology’s recent research, over 50% of...
by Dr. Melisa | Oct 19, 2023 | Her Moods & Mind, Sex + Relationships
Over the past 2 decades, kid’s exposure to porn has become so common, it is now considered a normative experience rather than an exception. And the content, which is freely and easily accessible from any smartphone, has become more and more explicit, violent, and...
by Dr. Melisa | Jul 6, 2022 | Sex + Relationships
In Girlology, we’ve been “preaching” that eight is a great age to explain sex since before our own children were that age. You’d think that as our kids approached eight we might have changed our minds. But actually, Dr. Trish and I decided to practice what we preach...
