Whether you’re looking for help and information about your parents or as a parent or guardian yourself, this section’s got it covered. It includes information for parents or guardians of every age, including teen parents, and for parenting toddlers to teens. You’ll also find help here with family planning, like working out if now is or isn’t a good time for you to become a parent in the first place.
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My father and I don't have the best relationship but he continually forces me to give him hugs, kisses, etc. even after I say no. It really bothers me, even if it is just a kiss on the cheek. He also...
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My father isn't respecting my personal boundaries.
- Heather Corinna
Articles and Advice in this area:
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- Sam Wall
Dr. Karen Rayne has spent a decade supporting parents and young adults with well-researched, thoughtful discussion of sex and sexuality.
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- Sam Wall
What can you do to stay connected without becoming the main component of your teen’s social life, and how do you support teens going through breakups?
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- Heather Corinna
The safer sex drawer normalizes safer sex, and ensures young people in your life have access to supplies they need.
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- Sam Wall
Parents and adults are often quick to dismiss teen media, even when they haven’t personally read or viewed it. That offhand dismissal undermines young people.
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- Heather Corinna
Gender stereotyping is not just everybody’s problem, it’s a problem for everybody, and that includes for men.
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- Heather Corinna
- Sam Wall
Some of our favorite resources for parents to help them do their best with sex, gender, consent and sexuality in their parenting.
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- Heather Corinna
- Sam Wall
If you take nothing else away from Scarleteen Confidential, we feel these five things are the real guiding principles when it comes to parenting well.
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- Heather Corinna
Young people sometimes feel uncomfortable talking with parents and guardians about contraception.
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- Heather Corinna
- Sam Wall
In this series we pass on our insight including what we observe and learn from working with young people to parents, guardians and other supportive adults.
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- Sam Wall
Our societies are chock-full of norms and ideals of beauty that shape how we feel about our bodies, and we all run up against them eventually.
