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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 ...Read More

What Parents Can Teach all Children

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

Top 5 Ways For Parents to Empower Girls

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

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