I recently attended the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy’s annual conference and learned all sorts of interesting things and had great conversations with lots of people! Several of the sessions I attended were about language and how to discuss sexuality education in ways that calms people’s nerves, opens them up to further conversation, and […]
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Some answers to middle school students, in short
On Friday I posted some of the questions and topics that my middle school students had asked in class last week and I promised short versions of my answers today. Here you go: First, the questions from the more reticent class (dealing with erections and periods, and rape and how it relates to age): I […]
Yes, your middle schooler is really thinking about this!
I have two middle school sexuality classes running right now – one on Wednesday nights and one on Thursday nights. One of my classes was initially hesitant about jumping into the conversation – the other one leapt into deep conversation about the inherent nature of sexuality. Here are some of the topics and questions raised […]
