by APFLI | Aug 27, 2005 | Parent Resources
One conversation with your child about risky behaviors is not enough. Introduce the subject when a child is still very young, in simple language and with clear rules. As your child grows, repeat the message in more mature terms. Here are some suggestions to help...
by APFLI | Aug 23, 2005 | Parent Resources
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...
by APFLI | Aug 23, 2005 | Parent Resources
Teenagers whose parents keep a close eye on their comings and goings may hang on to their virginity longer, a new study suggests. This parental influence was particularly strong among girls, according to findings published in the Archives of Pediatrics &...
by APFLI | Aug 17, 2005 | Parent Resources
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 dont know what to do, according to a 17 year-old from...
by APFLI | Aug 17, 2005 | Parent Resources
See Through Their Eyes. Reassure your child that while friends will sometimes hassle him/her for not going along, many times they wont. Either way, the most important thing is for her/him to make her/his own decisions. Adolescents also tend to overestimate how many...
by APFLI | Jun 11, 2005 | Parent Resources
1. We are not the top of an evolutionary chain — the human body is distinctive and unique in that the body, soul and spirit are inseparable…Comparison of humans with animal mating is irrational. 2. Love is spiritual, not biological – The civil...
by APFLI | May 30, 2005 | Parent Resources
“SAFE SEX” EDUCATION : SEX, LIES & MIDDLE SCHOOL GOSSIP* Word has it that eighth-graders are having sex. Or maybe you’ve heard about kids dodging into bushes for hanky-panky on the walk home. In a culture saturated with sex, today’s young...
by APFLI | Jun 27, 2004 | Parent Resources
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...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
As parents, we often painfully anguish over how these helpless creatures are ever going to survive in life. If we keep rescuing them, they wont. Here are some suggestions from a college counselor to help parents adjust to the “loss” of their teen to...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
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...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
By teaching SELF-CONTROL which requires… …JUDGMENT …HARD WORK …PERSEVERANCE …ACCEPTING CONSEQUENCES …POSTPONING IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION (Delayed Gratification) Here are TIPS you can teach your teens on How to Say “No”....
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
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...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
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...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
THE MYTHS, &… THE REALITY CHECK MYTH #1: Teens are using more and better contraceptives. Shouldnt 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,...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
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...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
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...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
“Schools should be in the business of promoting what is healthy for students. Schools do not advocate: “Dont smoke. But if you do, only smoke low tar cigarettes with industrial-strength filters.” Nor do we hand out such cigarettes to students who...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
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...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
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...
by APFLI | Mar 19, 2004 | Parent Resources
What the girls (and guys) don’t realize is that they are getting more than they bargained for… The hottest new pop culture topic is “young teen” sex. People magazine has a special report, NBC News aired a special…, and CNN’s Paula...