This book is a priceless resource! It makes talks so accessible and fun. It challenges you to really sit with your own experiences and view before attempting to navigate the talks. But it also provides helpful and easy vocabulary to have the talks with you kiddos. I especially appreciate the age break downs in each topic, which feel more tangible and doable.

We participated in your workshop earlier this month and my daughter still talks about how much she learned. Even better, she feels normal now after learning more about puberty and when people go through it. Thank you for the amazing work you are doing!

 I took this class with my daughter this morning, what a tremendous resource for parents. Well put together, concise, age appropriate information! My husband is going to take it with our other daughter in a few weeks. Thank you Melissa for providing this safe space for caregivers and children to meet and learn such important things about our bodies and growing up!

Incredibly written, useful book for children of all ages. Absolutely loved this book – full of really helpful conversations to have with children of all ages. My only wish is that it was longer!

Every aspect of the workshop was helpful and the models of the penis and vulva and the images that showed variation were amazing. Thanks for showing real images of what a bloody pad and tampon look like. Thank you for bringing the “realness” we need when it comes to conversations about our bodies.

 I just got done with the Growing Into You puberty workshop and I HIGHLY recommend it to any of you with a tween! It was super informative and interesting without being embarrassing and all the relevant topics. I especially liked how everybody learns about every type of body. It’s important to me that [my child] knows about menstruation and vulvar anatomy even though he’s not a menstruator. It gave us a great foundation to build on for future talks. Thank you so much!

This is the third workshop I’ve attended of yours and each time my wife and I are learning better ways to parent. Thank you for what you do.

Your teaching style is so compassionate and full of knowledge. Thank you for everything you do. We absolutely loved it!

Melissa is an amazing facilitator! The 2 hours went by so fast, it was the perfect amount of time for my tweens. As an adult, I feel like I yearned for more time since this is a conversation that was not provided to me when I was younger. Thank you for using inclusive and gender neutral language. I highly recommend this SPF workshop to others and I’m very interested in attending other workshops. Thank you for doing this work!

This was immensely helpful! Your advice was so clear and reassuring. Thank you for offering a space for our family to speak candidly with you about our questions. We know exactly what to do now.

This podcast and website is my favorite resource for all things sex education. Melissa and her content have changed the way I reflect on my own sexual health journey and how I navigate parenting my young child. I can not recommend everything Melissa does enough. She is a beautiful gift to this world!

After finding out my son has been watching porn on his ipad, I knew I needed help with what to do and say next. I didn’t want to just freak out on him. I’ve been following your work for the past year, and I felt relieved to know you were available for these kind of moments. You held space for my feelings. You were concise in the advice, and you gave me so many resources. The next day I sat down with my son and we had a talk that I could not have had without you. Thank you a million times! I feel like a better mom because of your work!

So thankful for you and your resources! I thought I was only ready to talk puberty, not sex, but you made it so much easier with: consent, safety, trust, & respect. Thank you also for discussing masturbation. I’m glad these words are all out in the open now!

Thank you for your work. I follow you on Insta and you’ve been a huge help to me when explaining things to my tween and in helping me try to erase the shame that I held onto about sex and bodies. My daughter said to me today, “I masturbate and it feels good!” And that is such a huge jump from anything I could have ever said to my parents when I was young. You handle consent and pleasure as part of the process, not something you learn about later. Thank you.

I cannot recommend this page strongly enough, especially for parents who want to help their children develop safe and healthy attitudes toward their sexuality. It’s a task often feared by so many adults and this page offers so much sound, practical and tender advice. Applause, applause!!

Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate this page!! I grew up in a very conservative household so almost all of these topics were off-limits. But after having my daughter I knew I wanted to raise her to be comfortable with her body and not scared of it. You have such awesome resources!! Thank you for all you do.

You hit it out of the park! You treat each topic with such care and intention, giving us so many tools to parent in a sex positive way. Immediately after reading the section on pleasure, I started a conversation with my daughter that I’d been holding off on for fear of not knowing what to say. We had THE BEST talk! I could not have done that without this book! Thank you a million times, Melissa!

Oh my goodness, thank you so so much! I can’t believe it! I have been wanting your book for so long. I have been putting a bit of money away each week for it! I’m a single mum to 2 kids (3 and 6) and follow all your advice and my kids know so much more than I did when I was a teenager! Thank you again. I cannot say it enough.

This book is helping me think about the kind of trusted adult I want to be for my nephews and my own future children.

It was so amazing!!! BRAVA to you! Your presentation style, frankness, honesty, humor and relatability is amazing!

Thank you for facilitating this. It helped both me and my husband to normalize conversations that we may have avoided or delayed. I could talk to my daughter about periods but I would not have talked about wet dreams to my son. I also appreciate the emphasis on consent and my choice. You are one of my COVID blessings. I would not have found you or acted on this without the time and space this crisis created in my life. Not enough thank yous to convey my gratitude.

Booking an in-depth session with Melissa was everything I thought it would be and more. Over the last few years, I’ve been following the Sex Positive Families account, sent links to friends and family, and integrated more and more of what I’ve learned. When I experienced a situation that left me feeling stuck, I scheduled some time to work through my questions. Melissa provided a judgment-free setting to explore my feelings, then offered reflections and action steps to support myself, my child, and my community. I felt seen, challenged, supported…relieved. I’m ecstatic to know this is a resource I can turn back to again and again.

I needed resources to include consent education into my elementary classroom. Sex Positive Families has become my go-to. I also refer parents to the guide and social media regularly. I wish I had Sex Positive Families earlier in my career.

A fantastic book. Supportive, instructive, informative. Guidance for all age groups – small children through teenagers. I can not recommend highly enough and I know I will be using it to help me for years to come!

In just two sessions with Melissa I learned more practical ways to design inclusive sex ed lessons for students than I ever did getting my teaching certificate. Having her wisdom and experience to mentor me has made me a more confident and all around better educator!

This book is incredible! It’s full of great tips and talking points. My son is 6 and very curious, so reading this has given me so many ideas on how to answer his questions and talk to him in a very different way than I experienced. I will be able to use this guide for every step of his development. Thank you so much!