Sex Education For Teens and Parents

Introduce yourself to build comfort in the group, break the ice with humor, start an about me discussion, share interests, overcome shyness, and reflect in journal entry 1.

Explore the problems and pressures teens face today by journaling, brainstorming, and prioritizing the top five. Read and discuss peers' insights to build awareness and dialogue.

Identify personal strengths through t-shirt symbols by answering questions about values, what you do well, what you’d like to be remembered for, and traits you like about yourself.

Discover your positive qualities through an interview about me, exploring strengths others notice, uncovering unknown talents, and learning how to make people aware of your key strength.

Explore body image awareness and how media shapes self-image and behavior, and reflect on changeable versus unchangeable body parts to feel better about your body.

Identify and articulate existing job skills you have developed, reflect on your accomplishments in the past six months, and brainstorm skills for success to prepare resumes or job applications.

Explore how values shape identity and behavior by examining what is worth and what is valued in health, safety, integrity, and achievement. Recognize how subjective meanings influence persuasion and negotiation.

Explore values through a journal activity about what you are against, what you believe in, and what you would stand up for, including family, culture, religious, and national values.

Identify family values and how they guide decisions, and reflect on how values are learned and passed to children. Interview a relative, fill the handout, and explore nonverbal messages.

Uncover what you value and why it matters, through journal prompts about what you would save in a fire, a free day, and spending five hundred dollars.

Identify and prioritize personal values through the worksheet and journaling, then discuss top three priorities with peers, and reflect on why certain values stand out for teens and parents.

Rank the importance of personal values by assigning a dollar value within a $10,000 budget, using 500-dollar increments, and reflect in journal entry 11 on most and least important items.

Explore how values shape behavior through journal prompts about health, exercise, nutritious diet, smoking, alcohol or other drugs, equal opportunities, and encouraging friends to take advanced physics or home economics.

Explore how personal values guide tough choices through teen dilemmas, weigh options, defend your decision, and reflect on which values most influence teen decisions.

Explore the purpose of communication, what makes it effective, and how messages travel from sender to receiver with feedback shaping interpretation and various forms like phone and body language.

Practice expressing thoughts and feelings through I statements to build positive communication by starting with I instead of you, communicating honestly and clearly without threatening or putting down others.

Learn to give clear directions by understanding why clear messages matter in daily communication for teens and parents, and how word choice affects understanding across family, friends, partners, and work.

Explore how nonverbal communication—facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture, and tone of voice—shapes trust and clarity in teen and parent relationships.

Explore definitions and messages about sexuality, normalize teens' uneasy feelings, and invite anonymous questions posted in the discussion area to foster open conversations.

Explore the circles of sexuality, covering sensuality, intimacy, sexual identity and orientation, gender roles, reproduction, health, contraception, and how sexualization shapes behavior.

Define sexuality through personal mental images and writing by picturing the five circles of sexuality in a journal activity, using visual representations to explain them.

Explore puberty and its physical and emotional changes, including genital development, secondary sex characteristics, and masturbation, with discussion on sexual attraction and adolescence.

Explore recognizing and articulating the emotions that accompany adolescence amid external body changes. Complete the worksheet and reflect on positive feelings and trusted supports for difficult emotions.

Expose fact vs fiction about teen sexuality by presenting research on sexual activity rates, abstinence, contraception, condom effectiveness, STDs, and minors’ access to testing.

Explore what defines sexual orientation, including lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities, and learn that biology may influence orientation while debunking myths and promoting tolerance.

Define stereotype as a widely held, oversimplified image or idea of a person or thing, and trace its origin to an old printing press that uses a mold.

Explore how gender stereotypes depict males as in-control and unemotional, and females as emotionally sensitive, endorsing violence to resolve conflicts and reinforcing dominance, breadwinner role, and early sexual activity.

Explore ABC diversity and the implications of stereotyped thinking, examine prejudice toward groups based on appearance, and reflect on the difference between prejudice and discrimination.

Engage in a gender stereotypes activity to raise awareness and answer questions based on the last lecture about negative consequences and discrimination against men and women.

Learn to identify discrimination, ask how it feels, and use language to speak up, point out it's wrong, and refuse discriminatory behavior in teen and parent contexts.

Debunk myths about sexual risks and present facts on anal intercourse, HIV, STDs, herpes, contraceptives, cancer risks, and possible side effects.

Explore pregnancy risk and failure rates across contraception methods, from abstinence to condoms, pills, IUDs, and barrier methods, using the chart to compare accidental pregnancy risks.

Explore abstinence, withdrawal, male and female condoms, vaginal contraceptive foam, and natural family planning in this guide to contraception methods for teens and parents.