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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video we’ll go through the conversation you should have with your older teenager about consent.  Okay — with the #Metoo movement raging on right now, consent is definitely a hot topic.  The story that recently broke about Aziz Ansari is particularly relevant.  First a quick definition of sexual consent in this context.  All it is — is the agreement by two parties to participate in a sexual activity. This activity does NOT have to be sex — this also covers touching or kissing.  And yes, I will acknowledge that this is an embarrassing conversation to have with your kids, but I think it’s important that we do.  And here is why — consent requires direct and open communication about an awkward topic.  If we are too wrapped around the axle to talk with our kids about this, how can we expect them to communicate well with each other? And the other thing?  It is ...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and today we are going to discuss the dreaded "sex talk" with your kids.  I am by no means the perfect "sex talk" parent model -- and certainly not from the beginning. I knew that I wanted to have an open dialog with my kids about sex eventually, but I was squeamish just like everyone else.  For the longest time, I let my kids think that babies came out of an incision in the mom's belly.  I had had 2 c-sections and, to be fair, they only asked specifically about their own births. When they were in early elementary school, I got shamed into doing a better job because our local Anglican priest, who's kids were around the same age, had already had this very specific and detailed conversation with his kids. And I refused to be bested by an Anglican priest! Now -- I'm a sex education teacher at my church. The church that I belong to is very liberal and takes the view that sexual educatio...