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In the convenience of your home, you can learn evidence-based information and practical skills that can help make the transition years easier.

You will find 4 classes each lasting between 10 and 20 minutes. After each class there is a very short assessment as well as recommended activities for you and your child. Research shows that time spent with your teen in constructive activities enhances your relationship.

When you are done, we ask you to take a very short survey. This survey will help us understand the impact of this program.

This website, www.TalktoThem.org, is one piece of a federally-funded campaign to help involve parents with their children’s sexual health. Another piece of the project is a media campaign directed towards parents in Oregon and Southwestern Washington. Talking with teens about sex, love, and relationships is often something parents avoid, feeling inadequate or embarrassed. These television public service announcements, in addition to billboards and brochures, are designed to encourage parents to do what their children desperately want: to have a conversation with them about the important issues in life. You can view the complete campaign and know it is so important that teens hear their parents’ voice.

Parenting Class #1 Parenting Class #1

This 11 minute presentation covers the following topics:

  • Why it’s best for teens to delay sexual involvement
  • Understanding how a teen’s developing brain affects his or her decisions
  • Way to increase a child’s self-respect
  • Factors that increase abstinence.
Parenting Class #2 Parenting Class #2

This 19 minute presentation covers the following topics:

  • Elements of peer pressure
  • Ways to help your teen with internal pressure
  • Helping your child understand the differences between love and infatuation including where to draw the line
  • Powerful influence of the media
  • Prevalanece of sexually transmitted infections/diseases
  • Emotional response to sexual involvement
Parenting Class #3 Parenting Class #3

This presentation covers the following topics:

  • Parties, Dating, and other Activities with a detailed look at each
  • How to handle parties and dating
  • The dangers of single dating
  • Helpful guidelines for handling dating teens
  • The dangerous cocktail of alcohol and sex

When you are finished with Class #3 please print out the Setting Standards Activity to fill out with your adolescent.
Parenting Class #4 Parenting Class #4

This presentation covers "Four steps to teach responsibility"

  • Give the child a task they can handle
  • Let child experience failure
  • Show empathy and teach consequences
  • Give them the same task again
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 August 2011 11:49