In the Race
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If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Sex Ed 101 For Parents
By Janet Evans
Saturday, Jul 12 2008, 08:15 AM
Having any trouble carrying on a general conversation with your teen?
What about a conversation about sex?
Can you find the right words?
Can you talk comfortably?
Or haven't you gotten around to it yet because you just don’t know how?
What if your place of employment offered you a series of classes on how to talk to your teen about sex?
Would you jump at it?
“Parents in the training arm of the study attended eight weekly lunch-hour sessions, in groups of about 15. Parents were taught to listen to their children without interrupting or starting to lecture. They also learned how to teach their children decision-making skills, assertiveness skills, and to have confidence in interacting with peers.Between meetings, parents would go home and practice these skills on their teens.
"We'd teach them some skills one week, and they'd come back the next week bubbling over with excitement that they'd talked with their teen about relationships, love, or sex, and -- this was the best part -- their teen had actually engaged in a real conversation with them," Schuster said.Surveys done one week, three months and nine months after the program ended measured its effects. Parents in the program said they had more talks with their teens about sex and they discussed more new topics on sexual matters than ever before."
from Reuters
Parents Learn as Work to Talk to Kids About Sex ç
