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Teen Girls and Body Image: How we are losing the war
Posted by: Sarah on: September 20, 2011
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Were did we go wrong? Is it the magazines with super skinny models? The TV shows full of people who must not eat? The air-brushed bill-boards? When did we as a society make all the teenage girls, and women for that matter, feel so bad about the way their bodies were created that they want [...]
Women and Sex: How your self-image impacts sexuality
Posted by: Sarah on: July 11, 2011
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We all know that the way we view ourselves has an impact on how we feel. If we don’t feel good about our outside it can be hard to feel good about our inside. How does this impact sex? It might seem obvious that feeling less than attractive on the outside can lead many women [...]
Teens and Parenting: What they still need as they grow
Posted by: Sarah on: July 7, 2011
As kids transition from children to pre-teens to teens a few things remain the same for most kids. They still need love, attention, and praise. They also still crave the traditions from childhood like a special cake on their birthday etc. Teens become independant so quickly in our modern society, and it is easy to [...]
Teens and Drinking: Epidemic?
Posted by: Sarah on: July 6, 2011
It is hard to believe the levels of teen drinking in our communities. Sure there are the small groups of teens who manage to avoid it, and yet most end up drinking at one point or another. This may be anything from an occasional drink at a party, to binge drinking on weekends, to drinking [...]
When to Give Your Child Information About Sex and Sexuality
Posted by: Sarah on: February 23, 2010
Giving your child information about sex and sexuality is like throwing coats at a slowly growing coat rack. When you start out the coat rack only has a few hooks. As it grows more and more hooks appear. This is the way your child’s brain, and understanding develop. They ask a question about babies, sexuality, [...]
Talking to Little Kids About Sex: when sperm meets egg and other bed time stories
Posted by: Sarah on: October 26, 2009
Even though I am always saying to talk to young kids openly and honestly about sex, when my own four year old boy asked me, “how do the babies get into the mommy’s tummy”, I thought “oh my gosh” in my head and felt the blood drain from my body. I then took a really [...]
Kids and Body Image: what you think of you matters
Posted by: Sarah on: October 7, 2009
It is a given that parents have a huge influence on how their children feel about their bodies. One of the biggest influences is how parents feel about themselves. What we say about ourselves has a big impact. You may feel like you look fat etc. but for the sake of your child try to [...]
Teens and Oral Sex: not just for movie theatres anymore
Posted by: Sarah on: September 19, 2009
There is an alarming trend when it comes to teens and oral sex. It seems to be happening at younger and younger ages and in more and more scary/creative places, like school buses and school bathrooms. Teens seem to flock to oral sex as an alternative to “real” sex that allows them to keep their [...]
Let’s Talk About Sex
Posted by: Sarah on: September 16, 2009
There is a scary new survey that says parents are not even close to being a primary source of information about sex for their teens. Teens continue to wish that they could talk to their parents about sex, and the ball keeps getting dropped somewhere in between. What are we so afraid of? Are we [...]
Teen Girls, Sex, and Building a Positive Image from Within
Posted by: Sarah on: September 2, 2009
We all have a view of ourselves that we carry inside. We feel a certain way about the way we look, the way our personality is, the way we relate to others etc. For teens this feeling is still in the development phase. For all of us it changes as we progress through life. Teen [...]
