Teacher Toolkit: Healthy Relationships Lessons for Teens
Quick answer: A strong healthy relationships curriculum for teens teaches students to recognize respect and warning signs, set and honor boundaries, communicate during conflict, practice consent, and know where to get help. It matters: in 2023, about 1 in 10 high school students who dated reported physical dating violence and about 1 in 17 reported […]
How to Explain Consent to a Child (and a Teen)
Quick answer: Explain consent to a child as “asking first and listening to the answer,” and practice it in everyday moments like hugs, tickling and sharing. The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests teaching body autonomy and privacy as early as toddlerhood (HealthyChildren.org). With teens, build on that foundation with conversations about respect, pressure, boundaries and […]