Check Out Dr. O’s First e-book: Are You Serious? It’s Just Sex!
You’re so sexy when you take charge like that!
Make your sex talks with your teen less REactive and more PROactive with the knowledge of these frequently asked questions by parents of teens.
You may have started the sex talk with your teen and they let you know they had no questions and understood everything. You thought, Whew! I’m off the hook.
Wrong.
As you well know, there’s a lot to sex that has nothing to do with knowing where babies come from. One thing is certain, you want your teen to feel empowered when they make the decision to become sexually active whether that time is right for you or not. You might be struggling with explaining the emotional as well as the technical side of sex, many parents do.
Well, I know the mystery of a great sex talk having talked with so many teens and their parents about teen sexuality. The Mystery is solvable and it starts with your understanding of their sexual development, their sexual health and you!
I really am serious, it’s just sex! The hard part is the relationship.
The relationship stuff is what creates doubt about choosing a partner and whether or not they should be sexually active with this person. It starts with knowing what is meant by all the pronouns that refer to sex, but don’t mention any of the emotional stuff that comes with it. Stop accusing them of being sexually active because someone said they were cute and focus on being the person they come to when they have questons about sex. That’s the best role YOU can have!
This is the only way you can have an impact on their sexual self-esteem and empowerment. Yes, you need self-esteem and empowerment here too!
“Are You Serious? It’s Just Sex!” e-book reveals how you can:
•Understand the importance of going at your teen’s pace not yours when you bring up the topic of sex.
•Find alternative ways to think about sexual orientation and birth control moral quandaries.
•Discover variations of the sex talk and suggestions to get around obstacles that can make the sex talk more complicated so you still get the job done!
•Learn advances in how the medical community thinks of the some female reproductive health issues like vaccines and the menstrual cycle.
•Rise above common teen sex myths that have shaped how parents manage their teen’s sexuality.
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Sound advice here. We all like to think that we can inform our kids effectively in this area. We all like to think we will do it better than our parents did. The reality is that teen’s know far more than we often give them credit for and this can be off putting when we finaly pick up the courage to speak to them on the subject. I always said to my teenage girls to come to me if they heard stuff in the playground or from their friends and it didn’t make sense to them. If the information was incorrect I would tell them so and ask if they wanted to know what was actully ment. This gave them some level of control in the conversation and tended to make them feel mature that I was respecting their wishes. Obviously if I felt they were not old enough to understand the full meaning of what was being discussed I would give an age appropriate ans. At the end of the day the rule of thumb i would always go by is keep lines of communication open so that they feel they can come to you with any issue including sex.
Thank you so much for the comment!