A GUIDE TO GROWING UP:
Honest Conversations about Puberty, Sex & God
By Sarah Smith, illustrated by Alex Webb-Peploe
Monarch Books. 176 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978 0 857 217 967
When the parents of children in my son’s class were invited into school recently to hear what they would be taught in their sex and relationships lessons, a mum joked: ‘You’re telling them that babies arrive by stork, right?!’
We all laughed and shifted slightly uncomfortably in our seats. It’s not a subject that I look forward to discussing or feel I handle very well.
