SO SEXY SO SOON:   The New Sexualized Childhood

Our children are being bombarded with powerful sexual messages everywhere throughout popular culture. Girls are being encouraged to objectify themselves and obsess about their sex appeal and appearance at absurdly young ages, while boys get the message that they should seek sex but avoid intimacy.
Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., co-author of So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can do to Protect Their Children, will address these issues using illustrations and examples of the sexual images and messages targeted at our children. Her presentation will examine the harmful consequences of the sexualization of children and teens and will suggest strategies parents can employ to counter the attack.

Thursday, February 4
7:30-9:30 pm
Galvin Middle School
525 Main Street
Wakefield

Tickets are $7 in advance, $8 at the door. For more information visit www.wakefieldparentpartnership.org

This is the second in a series of three lectures planned for the 2009-2010 school year by The Wakefield Parent Partnership and made possible by donations from Wakefield School PTOs.