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Talking with Your Teen

These suggestions are specifically aimed at helping your children avoid smoking. However, these basic helpful hints will also help protect your child from drugs and from sexual activity outside marriage. See Through Their Eyes. Reassure your child that while friends...

Teaching Your Child to Think 'On Their Feet'

Resisting negative peer pressure takes practice. Prepare your child for tough situations. “Peer pressure feels like having a spotlight shining on you in a big crowd. You need to make a decision quickly and you don’t know what to do,” according to a 17 year-old from...

Talking with Your Teen: Giving Them Tools

See Through Their Eyes. Reassure your child that while friends will sometimes hassle him/her for not going along, many times they won’t. Either way, the most important thing is for her/him to make her/his own decisions. Adolescents also tend to overestimate how many...

John Rosemond's Bill of Rights For Children

Because it is the most character-building, two-letter word in the English language, children have the right to hear their parents say “NO” at least three tirmes a day. Children have the right to find out early in their lives that their parents don’t...

Letting Them Go & Letting Them Grow

As parents, we often painfully anguish over how these helpless creatures are ever going to survive in life. If we keep rescuing them, they won’t. Here are some suggestions from a college counselor to help parents adjust to the “loss” of their teen to...

Helping Teens Become Self-Sufficient

Parents, help your teens to become SELF-SUFFICIENT! Here are a few tips from Charles Sykes, radio talk show host on WTMJ/AM in Milwaukee, and author of Dumbing Down Our Kids. You may want to share this list with your tweens and teens. 1. Life is not fair 2. Get used...

What Should I Say (and NOT Say) To My Teen?

Ask yourself for a moment what evokes a more negative reaction most of the time in families: the knowledge that a teen is sexually active, or the knowledge that a teen has become pregnant? If, in one way or another, the message is communicated that teen pregnancy will...

What do Physicians Say?

As a medical doctor, the best prescription I can give to avoid infection with a sexually transmitted disease is abstinence until marriage and a life-long, mutually monogamous relationship with an uninfected partner. * Tom Coburn MD, retired US Congressman, Family...

What are 3 "Safe Sex" Myths?

THE MYTHS, &… THE REALITY CHECK   MYTH #1: Teens are using more and better contraceptives. Shouldn’t I get my teen on contraceptives, or give out condoms, to protect him/her? REALITY: Although condom use has increased among teens at first intercourse,...

Why do some teens become sexually active?

Sexual attraction Society & media pressure Peer pressure Use of alcohol and drugs Pressure from boyfriend/girlfriend Desire to be considered “normal” Parents’ example Inappropriate sex education Mistaken beliefs Boredom Low self-esteem Loneliness No...

What do Teens say?

Over 90% of 1000 teens polled believe that abstinence should be taught and urged by society. Also, 58% of teens felt that sexual activity is inappropriate for high school students. [The Indianapolis Star 5 May 2000 reported findings from National Campaign to Prevent...

What does the research show ?

“Schools should be in the business of promoting what is healthy for students. Schools do not advocate: “Don’t smoke. But if you do, only smoke low tar cigarettes with industrial-strength filters.” Nor do we hand out such cigarettes to students who...

Why Should We Talk To Our Kids About Sex?

Because… ~600,000 U.S. teens become pregnant each year …3 million U.S. teens are infected with STDs/STIs each year ..63% of all STDs occur in persons less than 25 years of age …one in 4 sexually active teens will contract an STD before finishing high...

Why should our teens be sexually abstinent ?

There are many physical and emotional reasons. Physically, there is an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S., many of which are dangerous and even life-threatening, such as HIV/AIDS and HPV, which is present in almost all cases of abnormal pap smears...