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Welcome Parents

Learn how to give independence to your children by teaching them skills to navigating media, relationships, and conversations dealing with intimacy, sex, and even pornography. This topic can be intimidating but YOU CAN DO IT! Learn some helpful ways to teach your kids at each stage. 

If you are "already behind" it's ok.  You can start now. It's not too late.  Your kids will appreciate your involvement in their lives, even if they don't show it.  Structure and support of a family makes people feel safe. When people feel safe they are more likely to reach their highest potential.  Help them achieve their goals and become responsible adults not just in their professions but also in their relationships with others. 

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Infants and Toddlers

Start from infancy. This may seem extreme but these concepts are just as important as a baby getting adequate nutrition to build a optimal foundation of physical and mental health.

The goals of this stage are to Cultivate a healthy view of the body, and set and practice physical and verbal boundaries.

 

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Children (pre-puberty)

As your child learns and understands more childhood is a prime time to establish your role as an expert a becoming their source of information. Especially sexual information. It is also and important time to get ready for your child first exposure to pornography which happens at a national average of age 9. 

 

The goals for this stage are to teach for scientific learning, become their source of sexual information, and prepare for first exposure. 

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Puberty and Preteens

Having "the talk" is not enough. Media is reaching and teaching your kids hundreds of times a day. One talk from you is not enough to protect them. 

Puberty- The goals of this stage are celebrate puberty, teach about opposite gender anatomy, and critique media together.

Preteen- Teach physical, emotional, spiritual consequences of sex, and distinguish media from reality.

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Teenagers and Young Adults

At this point in the child's life the parent can be a sounding board for developing their own sexual values.  There isn't a whole lot of teaching mainly because by now teenagers aren't listening to your direct advice.  That doesn't mean they don't know what you would say, they do from years of past conversations.  All the parent needs to do is take advantage of the opportunities that arise.  

The goals of this stage are to ask questions and be a parent learner, answer honestly, and perpetuate future open conversations. 

Teenager
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