How to Talk to Your Muslim Child About Sex

Firoza Osman

Paperback, 146 pages

9781777273200

Our children are growing up in a hypersexualized world. It is a subject that most Muslim parents find difficult and awkward to discuss with their children. This book will lessen that discomfort and build your confidence to tackle this sensitive subject. Firoza Osman outlines how an Islamic foundation when talking to your children about sexual matters from preschool (proper vocabulary, boundaries) to adolescence can help shape a healthy Islamic identity and view of sexuality.

How to Talk to Your Muslim Child about Sex offers practical suggestions to address:

• Building an Islamic understanding of sex and sexuality

• The challenges of raising children in a digital age

• Building communication and connection with your children so they come to you for information

• How and when to explain puberty, physical intimacy, dating and healthy relationships, consent, gender issues, pornography. 

Firoza Osman has over 20 years of teaching experience with youth and adolescents, working as a Further Education lecturer in the UK, Educational Assistant with a public school board and Afterschool Program Manager for a Canadian Islamic non-profit organization delivering workshops to Muslim youth on Healthy Relationships. She has two adult sons in the UK and resides with her husband in Edmonton, Canada.