How To Talk To Your Kids About Sex - Postponed

This workshop aims to equip parents with the tools and knowledge to have age appropriate conversations with children of any age about sex and sexuality.  This workshop will stretch even the most liberal minded of us and unlock a depth of relating between yourself and your child that will remain accessible through any of lifes challenges.  

It will provide us with a phenomenal shift in perspective and will include some good humour - because let's face it, talking about sex can be awkward, leaving us feeling a little strange.  We'll explore opportinuties for opening conversations and when to take things deeper as well as some simple tools to create ease for everyone involved.

Teaching our kids about sex and sexuality is just as important as teaching them about healthy eating, good hygiene, and respectful relationships. And if we don’t guide them, then the internet will.

We'll delve into...
• Age appropriate education from 2yrs up till 16yrs
• Explaining conception, pregnancy and birth to younger children
• Puberty and changes in the body
• Consent throughout different age groups
• Good touch and bad touch
• Porn and its impact on children
• Our own relationship to sex and its impact on our children
• Resources and books to use with your children

A bit about the presenter -

In the last 5 years, Lael Stone, has been teaching Sex Education to high school students and working with teenagers on all aspects of sexuality and well-being. Lael has just launched 'The Connection Program' a pioneering program for teenage girls that explores all components of puberty, sexuality, relationships and sense of self. She is the mother to 3 big kids - 2 of them who are teenagers and she is currently putting all her research into practice with them! Her passion is to create wellness in families through connection, communication, and education.  

Lael has spent the last 15 years working in Childbirth Education and postnatal care, working with couples through pregnancy, birth and the first few years of parenting. She is the Creator and Director of the About Birth Online Education Program, a pioneering way to learn about birth and early parenting. She is also a certified Aware Parenting Instructor and runs regular groups for mothers as well as workshops and private sessions for parents who are looking to create more connection and awareness in raising their children.

And finally a few facts to astonish...

Thirty-eight percent of teens report that parents are the biggest influence on their decisions about sex, while only 22 percent say their biggest influence is their friends (Alpert, 2012).

Eighty-seven percent of teens say it would be easier to delay sex and avoid pregnancy if they could have more open conversations about it with their parents (Alpert, 2012).

Teens who report having good conversations with their parents about sex are more likely to delay sex, have fewer partners, and use condoms and other birth control when they do have sex (Guilamo-Ramos et al., 2010; Weinman et al.)