Talking to Your Teens About Sex | Mount Pleasant Academy

Talking to your teen about sex is a very sensitive topic and it is a topic which stirs up strong opinions. Mount Pleasant Academy provides help to teenage boys ages 12-17 whose lives have been compromised because of the adverse consequences of risky sexual activity. For information on how Mount Pleasant Academy can serve your family please contact 1-855-420-4111. There are many challenges involved in addressing teen sexuality – Despite attempts to provide extensive education to teens about sexuality, many adolescents are still woefully ignorant about the reality of engaging in sexual activities. Accordingly, it is important to consider approaches to dealing with the problem of teen sex.

Parental guidance

The most efficient way to decrease risky activities may be to encourage parents to become fully involved in the sexuality education of their offspring. While many may feel like bystanders in their teenagers’ lives, parents must instill in their teens a healthy lifestyle that also includes healthy discussions on sexual issues. Parents must have a constant dialogue concerning sex with their teens through both teaching and active monitoring of social and other activities.

Adolescents who have a close relationship with their parents tend to be responsive to their parents’ attitudes and advice about important issues including sexuality. Despite the many reasons which may cause a parent to feel uncomfortable with this topic, it is absolutely crucial that communication begins in the pre-teen years with general discussions of appropriate relationships and life goals, and that these conversations later progress to all aspects of sexuality, including STDs. Parents can successfully monitor the genre of information that their child receive. In conversing with their kids, they can get an idea of what they kids are being influenced by.

Some factors that protect against early sexual activity

• Discussion of issues related to sexuality between parents and children
• Parental monitoring of dating
• Balance of committed love and moderately strict discipline in the home
• Good relationship between the parents
• Both parents actively and emotionally involved with teen
• Good performance and motivation at school
• Post-secondary educational plans
• Regular religious participation
• High self-esteem
• Parental monitoring of media
• Close friends who avoid high-risk behaviors and who are not sexually involved
• Consistent message from educators to postpone sexual activity

By talking openly to teenagers about different aspects of relationships, by discussing the potential long-term implication of early sexual involvement, and by teaching adolescents to think critically about what they see and hear, parents can empower their teens to deal with challenges and adverse influences.

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