What Boys and Girls Are Made Of: Supporting Healthy Gender and Sexual Identities of Children
To Learn More about ways to teach about healthy relationships, visit these websites:
Jackson Katz
Media Education Foundation
MVP Strategies
Futures Without Violence
A Parents Guide to Teen Dating Violence
Resources for Parents of Girls:
5 Tips for Raising Confident Assertive Girls
Understanding and Raising Girls
Rachel Simmons: Leadership for
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Help them develop strong interaction and social skills
Discuss many kinds of family and relationship models
Encourage and help them to make informed choices
Give them healthy outlets for their feelings
Respect and nurture their true selves
Share your stories
Model the way
Stay involved
Teach the difference between strong and tough
Encourage and insist upon discussions about feelings and relationships
Send the message that it is okay (and important) to be vulnerable
Give him opportunities to know many successful humble men
Help him understand his privilege as a male
Teach the difference between self-sacrificing and being “good”
Discuss or compliment something other than her looks
Place value on the quality of her relationships, not the quantity
Give her opportunities to learn from many different strong women
Role-play difficult conversations with her and have discussions about them
One of the most important things we do for our kids is to teach them how to be in relationships when they are adults. Most of us learn about relationships from two main sources: by watching how the adults in our lives relate to each other, and from watching how relationships are portrayed in the ...Read More