What your teen wishes you knew about sex education

Life Kit

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

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🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Consent, dating, masturbation, porn. It can be difficult having conversations about sex and relationships with teens. NPR's Life Kit has a few tips to help make those talks your kids feel more comfortable.

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0:00.0	I'm Cory Turner, an NPR reporter and the father of two boys.
0:05.5	I'm Ania Kaminets, an NPR reporter and the mom of two girls.
0:09.7	And if you're at a public place right now, make sure your headphones are in, okay?
0:13.4	Yeah, because we're going to get awkward.
0:15.6	Saying masturbating also sounds bad, right?
0:20.5	Like, why is that word sound like it's not okay, but it's okay to say self pleasure.
0:26.9	That is Dr. Korra Bruner getting us right in there.
0:31.4	We caught her on the phone at the adolescent medicine clinic at Seattle Children's Hospital.
0:36.2	The people all around me that I'm doing this interview are laughing so hard.
0:40.2	I'm telling you, they're being very quiet, but there's three people literally within about
0:46.0	three feet of me going, Korra, what?
0:48.8	Who are you talking to?
0:50.6	You just tell them NPR, you know?
0:53.5	NPR.
0:55.3	National Public Radio.
0:57.3	Damn it.
0:58.3	Dr. Bruner is board certified in pediatrics and adolescent medicine and she's no stranger
1:04.6	to masturbation talk.
1:06.0	She's also been teaching sex ed to middle school students for 15 years.
1:09.6	Yeah, and she is going to help us a lot with this episode.
1:13.2	Sex ed, part two, adolescents.
1:16.4	We're going to give you some of the tools you'll need to handle the most difficult conversations
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