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April 12, 2010 by Mike Domitrz
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Would you like to help your sons and daughters make safer choices when dating (whether now and/or in the future)? As a parent, you know how overly sexualized your child’s world is today. They face pressures from their peers at much younger ages than we did. They are exposed to images and ideas on TV, in movies, and on the internet we simply did not see at the same frequency.
The great news is you can discover HOW to connect and talk with your teen in the video below. You already have great knowledge which can be a huge help to your child. Now, realize how to get your son or daughter to WANT to listen and gain your knowledge. In the below video, you will find out how to ask the right questions to your teen AND how to give them a skill set giving them the confidence to make the right choices.
When you finish the video, try a couple of the ideas today (or as soon as the timing is right for your son or daughter). Then, SHARE with us in the “Leave a Comment ” section below.
~Mike Domitrz
Founder of The Date Safe Project, Inc.
P.S. Don’t forget to leave comments in the “Speak Your Mind” section below. I promise to PERSONALLY respond to all of them.
ADVANCED STRATEGIES FOR TALKING WITH YOUR TEEN
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Please post any comments or questions below in the “Speak Your Mind” section. I will PERSONALLY respond to each comment you leave on this page!! Lets have fun taking this journey.
Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnancy, Statutory Rape, and Parents
December 20, 2007 by Mike Domitrz
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The Jamie Lynn Spears’ official announcement she is pregnant is bringing up conversations about the legal age of consent for sexual activity. From the Genarlow Wilson case in Georgia earlier this year to now the pregnancy of 16 year old Jamie Lynn Spears, our country needs to take a sincere look at consent and society’s current approach to sexual education in our schools and in our homes. From teachers to parents, direct conversations are needed with pre-teens and teenagers.
The entire concept of "consent" is constantly misunderstood. In reporting of pregnancies involving minors, the media often says "consensual sex among minors." When a state has laws stating a minor cannot give consent with a partner of a specific age, the media needs to use the following wording instead, "mutually agreed upon sex." The failure to use the correct wording leads to students and overall society responding with, "How can consensual sex be rape?" Consent is a LEGAL term.
Here is where the problem begins. How many teenagers actually have MUTUALLY AGREED UPON sexual activity? For the sexual activity to be "Mutually Agreed Upon," it would demand two people agreeing together – A CONVERSATION (No, not a contract. Two people talking with each other). However, we know most teenagers do not openly discuss their sexual activity with their partner until they are already at the point of being uncomfortable OR until after the act has already been done OR or not at all.
In speaking in high schools, students continually tell us that if they TALKED FIRST, it would slow down the speed at which the sexual activity is taking place AND often stop it from happening at all. By talking first, they would frequently find the conversation uncomfortable which would be a telling sign one of the two people (if not both) is not mature enough and/or comfortable enough in the sexual situation that is about to occur! Teaching consent the correct way helps increase abstinence and better protects today’s teeangers.
April 12, 2010 by Mike Domitrz
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~Mike Domitrz
Founder of The Date Safe Project, Inc.
P.S. Don’t forget to leave comments in the “Speak Your Mind” section below. I promise to PERSONALLY respond to all of them.
ADVANCED STRATEGIES FOR TALKING WITH YOUR TEEN
Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnancy, Statutory Rape, and Parents
December 20, 2007 by Mike Domitrz
Filed under Blog
The Jamie Lynn Spears’ official announcement she is pregnant is bringing up conversations about the legal age of consent for sexual activity. From the Genarlow Wilson case in Georgia earlier this year to now the pregnancy of 16 year old Jamie Lynn Spears, our country needs to take a sincere look at consent and society’s current approach to sexual education in our schools and in our homes. From teachers to parents, direct conversations are needed with pre-teens and teenagers.
The entire concept of "consent" is constantly misunderstood. In reporting of pregnancies involving minors, the media often says "consensual sex among minors." When a state has laws stating a minor cannot give consent with a partner of a specific age, the media needs to use the following wording instead, "mutually agreed upon sex." The failure to use the correct wording leads to students and overall society responding with, "How can consensual sex be rape?" Consent is a LEGAL term.
Here is where the problem begins. How many teenagers actually have MUTUALLY AGREED UPON sexual activity? For the sexual activity to be "Mutually Agreed Upon," it would demand two people agreeing together – A CONVERSATION (No, not a contract. Two people talking with each other). However, we know most teenagers do not openly discuss their sexual activity with their partner until they are already at the point of being uncomfortable OR until after the act has already been done OR or not at all.
In speaking in high schools, students continually tell us that if they TALKED FIRST, it would slow down the speed at which the sexual activity is taking place AND often stop it from happening at all. By talking first, they would frequently find the conversation uncomfortable which would be a telling sign one of the two people (if not both) is not mature enough and/or comfortable enough in the sexual situation that is about to occur! Teaching consent the correct way helps increase abstinence and better protects today’s teeangers.
