Monday, April 11, 2005

A Helpful Service

from the federal government: a website that's supposed to make it easy to have "the talk" with your kids.

The conversation starters alone are priceless:
Your jeans are looking a little short! How much taller do you think you've grown since last year? More changes are going to happen. Do you know what some of those changes are?

I heard that there was a wild party last weekend after the game. Have your friends been talking about it? Did you know that alcohol and drugs really increase the chances of having sex and geting a disease?

Some guys go out for a good time over the weekend, and end up with thousands of dollars taken out of their paychecks for the next 18 years. Do you know how that could happen?

But they also include valuable information for you to pass along:
Physical Intimacy

In most dating relationships there is a natural progression of physical intimacy. If no barriers are put into place, this progression generally leads to sexual intercourse. Most experts agree that once couples move beyond hugging and light kissing, hormones encourage further physical contact. With this in mind, parents should encourage their adolescent to determine physical boundaries before beginning a dating relationship and clearly communicate those boundaries in the early stages of a dating relationship.

Progression of physical intimacy

Holding hands
Holding each other around the waist or shoulder (hugs)
Kissing on the lips
"French" (open mouth) kissing
Touching breasts
Touching sexual organs
Sexual intercourse

Just in case you'd forgotten the old "base" system.

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