Do Your Kids Ask? Parents Teaching Respect & Healthy Dating

Below are the 8 most common questions parents ask me when I am speaking in their schools or with their community organizations:

1. Without sounding like you are lecturing and without endorsing sexual activity, how do you approach the issue of healthy dating and intimacy with your child?
Kids are constantly told by their parents how “times were different” and “we were more respectful.” The truth is

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Mike Domitrz is an expert in dating and communicating on sex and other intimate issues with tweens, teenagers, and college students. To start talking with your tween, teenager, or college student about dating, intimacy, and respect issues, get Mike’s critically-acclaimed resource for parents titled HELP! My Teen is Dating: Real Solutions to Tough Conversations. You and your kids will love this interactive and educational program.

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Abstinence & Consent – Do They Belong Together?

How discussing consent is the ultimate way to discuss abstinence.

Throughout the country, some parents and educators are saying, “Our schools believe in discussing abstinence. Won’t teaching teenagers about consent lead to more sexual activity among those same teenagers?” Teaching consent stresses establishing personal standards, respecting boundaries, and always understanding the importance of having a choice.

Unequivocally, students participating in the “Can I Kiss You?” programs say “asking first” will greatly reduce the amount of sexual activity among their age group (thus increasing the level of students practicing abstinence). Teenagers share the following four main reasons for why

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