Welcome To Day Four Of The
PARENTING CONNECTION CONFERENCE
Day Four – Sex & Safety for Straight/LGBTQ Teens
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Length: 37:17
Jo is a dad, therapist, and sex educator for tweens and teens. He helps parents and professionals increase their sex education knowledge and self-confidence. His work includes LGBT issues, Internet safety, and digital citizenship. His latest book, The Pride Guide, is the first puberty book written for queer and trans youth and their families and is a guide to sexual and social development, safety and health for queer youth.
Summary:
When we were kids, everyone was either a boy or a girl, now things have changed. There are new terms–cisgender, non-binary, pansexual, and gender-fluid. What does this all mean? Jo Langford helps us sort out the terms and suggest what parents (and communities) can do to support LGBT+ youth. This is an important conversation–even if your child is “straight”–because this is the culture youth are growing up in and parent/community support is a life-saver… literally.
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Rosalind Wiseman has had only one job since graduating from college—to help communities shift the way we think about children and teens’ emotional and physical wellbeing. She is the author of several award winning and bestselling books including Queen Bees and Wannabes which was the basis for the movie Mean Girls.
Summary:
Because Rosalind Wiseman is in conversations with teens constantly, she understands deeply their emotional and social struggles. In this interview and in her work, she allows parents an honest, sometimes uncomfortable and challenging, glimpse into what it means to be a girl or a boy in our current culture. She talks about the needs for teens to have privacy, in a technological world in which there is no privacy. She shares the importance of parents truly listening to their kids and responding from a place of wholeness (rather than reacting with fear). Rosalind offers valuable tools for how to help a child navigate the complexities of friendships and intimate relationships.
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Stephanie Brill is the founder of Gender Spectrum and a thought leader in the field of gender diversity in children. She is the author of four books including The Transgender Teen and The Transgender Child. Her work has been featured on 20/20, Fox News and Fox Radio, San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times.
Summary:
Stephanie Brill talks about how parents, family, and community members can support a child who does not identify with their gender assigned at birth. She explains what parents can say when their child talks to them about their gender, and how to “re-do” conversation if parents say something that they regret, and how to explain their child’s gender to other family members and friends. This is an important presentation for all parents to watch because our children and ALL children are growing up in a much more gender-diverse world than we did.
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Mike Domitrz is known for the impact his programs, trainings, and publications have made across the world for parents, teenagers, families, educational institutions, the US military, and the media. You may have seen him as the featured expert on Dateline NBC’s “My Kid Would Never Do That.”
Today, Mike is one of the leading experts for transforming our sexual culture to one being built on consent and respect – discussing sexual decision-making, asking first, healthy relationships, bystander intervention, and supporting survivors of sexual assault. As the brother of a rape survivor, Mike’s mission is personal.
His ability to share powerful emotional moments (both serious and hilariously funny) while giving readers and audiences realistic “How To” SKILLS to implement in their lives is what separates Mike’s message from other experts and authors. Mike is an author with an unique combination of Provocateur and Advocate who captivates readers throughout his books.
Mike is also the host of The Everyday Mindfulness Show – Dive into fun, thought-provoking, and engaging conversations on everyday mindfulness – from meditation to spirituality to personal passions to success and failure to relationships and much more. The show features special guests and a unique cast of over 70 individuals who are known to stop by and join the vibrant conversation each week.
Summary:
Mike Domitrz tackles what is arguably one of the most important and difficult conversations that parents and educators might have with kids–teaching consent–so that young people are empowered to be in charge of their bodies and their sexual experiences can be respectful, mutually desired, and based on healthy communication. So frequently when adults talk to children and teens about sex, the conversation is about what “not to do”. Mike approaches the conversation differently, he talks about what to do, and how to get consent before being intimate with someone. This is a highly recommended conversation!
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Date Safe Project
Everyday Mindfulness Show
How to Support Child on the Gender Spectrum and Why it is Vital
Stephanie Brill is the founder of Gender Spectrum and a thought leader in the field of gender diversity in children. She is the author of four books including The Transgender Teen and The Transgender Child. Her work has been featured on 20/20, Fox News and Fox Radio, San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times.
Summary:
In recent years it seems like there is quite an increase in kids and teens who don’t identify with their gender assigned at birth. Why is this happening? Is it a good thing? What are the most important things that parents should do if their child wants to express their gender in a different way (by changing their pronouns, dressing differently, etc)? What is gender-affirming health care, and when do kids need it? Stephanie Brill brings wisdom, experience, and level-headedness to this conversation about gender, and guidance about how to best support kids and teens in our families and communities.
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Amy Lang is a sexuality and parenting expert, and a regular guest on multiple media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Salon.com, CNN, The Atlantic, and the Seattle Times, and podcasts like The Savage Lovecast, Tilt Parenting, and The New Family. Amy has worked with parents and professionals from Alaska to Australia, including the Boys & Girls Club, The Air Force Youth and Family Services programs, YMCAs, and multiple PTAs and preschools. Parents and professionals appreciate that she is a fun, smart, and sassy speaker.
Summary:
Amy Lang talks about normal sexual behavior at each age. Amy covers it all… from babies and toddlers, playing doctor and kissing games, explaining sex to young kids, middle schoolers going through puberty, high schoolers having relationships, and young adults having their first sexual experiences. Amy is fun and straight-talking. You’ll hear her “secret code name” and 2 words she never uses when talking about sex.
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