What Parents Need to Know About Today's Teens and Sex
10/09/24 • 55 min
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Teens and sex are a scary topic for lots of parents. How can we impact our kids' decisions and what do we say? Join our conversation today with Dr. Debby Herbenick, a Provost Professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, where she leads the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior. She is the author of Yes Your Kid: What Parents Need to Know About Today’s Teens and Sex.
In this episode, we cover:
- What do you believe a parent's role should be in sex education?
- How do you become an askable parent?
- How to talk with our kids about sex without sounding overly judgmental but also convey your values.
- 5 minutes a week conversations.
- The importance of having high-quality books on puberty and sexuality around the house.
- When to start talking about sex with kids?
- How to talk with young people about consent
- Impact of technology (internet, social media, ubiquitous cell phones, etc.) on sexual development.
- What are reasonable parental rules surrounding technology usage?
- Taking and sharing sexual images--how common?
- How should parents even start talking with their child about nude images?
- At what age should we start this conversation
- How to share the downside
- Pornography or sexually explicit media
- How common do kids access porn, and at what ages?
- Is viewing porn bad for kids?
- At what age should parents start talking with kids about pornography?
- What should parents say about porn?
- How to keep our kids from viewing porn?
- How to respond if we catch our kid watching porn or know that they have viewed it?
- Having these discussions when we haven’t had a lifetime of raising this child?
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
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Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.
Teens and sex are a scary topic for lots of parents. How can we impact our kids' decisions and what do we say? Join our conversation today with Dr. Debby Herbenick, a Provost Professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, where she leads the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior. She is the author of Yes Your Kid: What Parents Need to Know About Today’s Teens and Sex.
In this episode, we cover:
- What do you believe a parent's role should be in sex education?
- How do you become an askable parent?
- How to talk with our kids about sex without sounding overly judgmental but also convey your values.
- 5 minutes a week conversations.
- The importance of having high-quality books on puberty and sexuality around the house.
- When to start talking about sex with kids?
- How to talk with young people about consent
- Impact of technology (internet, social media, ubiquitous cell phones, etc.) on sexual development.
- What are reasonable parental rules surrounding technology usage?
- Taking and sharing sexual images--how common?
- How should parents even start talking with their child about nude images?
- At what age should we start this conversation
- How to share the downside
- Pornography or sexually explicit media
- How common do kids access porn, and at what ages?
- Is viewing porn bad for kids?
- At what age should parents start talking with kids about pornography?
- What should parents say about porn?
- How to keep our kids from viewing porn?
- How to respond if we catch our kid watching porn or know that they have viewed it?
- Having these discussions when we haven’t had a lifetime of raising this child?
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care - What Parents Need to Know About Today's Teens and Sex
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Dawn Davenport 0:00
This is Creating a Family. Talk about foster, adoptive and kinship care. Welcome back to our regular listeners. We really appreciate how you have helped us grow. We are now in the top 10% of all podcasts actually in the world, believe it or not. And we also want to send out a special hello to our new listeners. We do want to grow and reach more families. So we really appreciate you joining us. I am Dawn Daven
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