Learn how conversations with parents and kids can delay their kids risk taking behavior. Hear what kids really want to hear about puberty and sex from their families. Get some strategies on how to communicate with teens.
About our Guests:
Julie Metzger and Robert Lehman have decades of experience with the adolescent and pre-adolescent mindset. They created and now teach the popular “Growing Up” program at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the “Heart to Heart” program out of Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
Robert Lehman, MD, has devoted his professional career to adolescent health care. As a physician, his practice has focused on teenagers in many different clinical situations, including schools, homeless clinics and public health facilities. He is also a passionate advocate for youth on the local and national level and has been on the University of Washington faculty since 1989. In 1990, he began working with Julie Metzger on the “Growing Up” series.
Julie Metzger, R.N. and M.N., is a pediatric nurse, writer and educator. She developed her popular “Heart to Heart, For Girls Only” program in 1989, and has taught the class to thousands of mother-daughter teams in Seattle, Palo Alto and the Puget Sound region. She is a co-designer and instructor of several other classes aimed at fostering child-parent communication in adolescence.
Show Highlights:
- Learn how your everyday your actions and behaviors teach your sex, friends and partners.
- What are the top 3 conversations you should be having with your teen about sex?
- Looking for some guidance on what kind of rules you should be setting with your teen about sex and natural consequences when they don’t meet your expectation?
- Want to hear Julie role model how to talk to your child about a difficult topic (e.g.- getting her teen to wear a condom)? Listen in to hear how experts talk to children.
Resources:
Check out the following websites and podcasts to get you on your path:
- http://www.greatconversations.com/
- Recent research on Teen Sex: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-ATSRH.pdf
- Details on Sexually Transmitted Infections: http://www.medinstitute.org/public/252.cfm
CJ Liu is a woman on a mission: She wants to fire people up and awaken them to their full potential. She lives life passionately and at full throttle.
I’ll be at your May 1 lecture, and am wondering if you can address this question: How can you speak to single mothers of boys entering puberty? My son is 10 and is perceptive, private, and seems sometimes to be grieving his childhood, sometimes already launched into a savvy pre-teen world. Sometimes he even seems to be protecting me from his own growing up, because I think he senses that I’m a bit uncertain as to how to guide him. What words of wisdom can you offer single mothers of boys? Are there groups or resources in Seattle for moms in my situation? Book suggestions? Thanks.