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Teens and Sex: How to Help Your Kids Dodge Pregnancy and STDs

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i need help with something, but in a more priavate location.
im 16

candy of FL 5:33PM March 23, 2009

Would cravings for food be a sign of pregnancy?

Scared of TN 2:58PM March 06, 2009

I am 11 and i dont have sex but im showing symptoms of pregnancy

scared of TN 2:55PM March 06, 2009

im gay

paul of FL 5:35PM January 24, 2009

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dingxiuge of NY 4:43AM January 20, 2009

The Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality
These issues continue to impact US society due to politics trumping science, and our culture of selling sex, but avoiding talking about sex.
I used a great resouce to overcome some of my own inhibitions about talking and educating my own kids about sex called, The Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality. I think it's available in Spanish also. But my teens and I now have a very open relationship to talk about these issues, and I sleep much better at night.

Probitas of 8:23PM January 10, 2009

I'm sure they will take a bath to get all the licking,sweat and come off them, good as new.

Jan of NY 10:05AM December 29, 2008

Would you eat a hamburger if i licked it sweated on it and then came on it. Then i wash it of and it looks lovely.Ask yourself would you eat it.So how do you expect any one to one day see you as lovely if you act like the hamburger.

andre of CA 7:26AM December 29, 2008

Hope this doesn't ruin your weekend!!!! So glad I'm passed the "learning years"...good luck!

Jill of MA 5:14PM December 12, 2008

It is more than having talks about sex. Its about a parent learning who thei child really is. Parents are so consumed by how their child "performs." They focus on grades and activitites to judge who their children are. They forget to look deeper, at the sense of "self" their children are creating. And it's hard in todays world to create that sense of self. The media, technology, changing social values all go in to the mix of who are children are learning to be, or learning to value. Parents need to learn what the world is really like for their child. Most parents I work with want very much to understand todays new world order so they can help their child. They simply don't know where to start.
For my newest book, "Girls, You Just Don't Get It!" What Guys Want You to Know About Love and Respect, I interviewed guys from 23 countries. What they have to say about love and respect was surprising. Parents need to know what's in the book as much as teen girls do!
It's a new world order, but that doesn't mean parents should just give up on helping their teens. Become educated, and learn to listen. That's one of the hardest skills of all. Listening requires more than hearing the words. It means you keep your heart open so you can hear hard truths without getting angry, or putting down your child. If parents took the time to learn to listen better and to ask better questions, they would be able to build a better bridge across the yawning generation gap.

Dr. Jennifer Austin Leigh of CA 10:23AM December 11, 2008