How can we help teens identify unhealthy relationships, before they find themselves in one? More importantly, how can we help teens cultivate healthy relationships that bring them happiness and security?
Teens are going to date, there is no stopping this from happening. And teens have the right to date and form new relationships. When you’re a teenager in high school, you try new things and put on different “hats”, to see who you are as a person and what you like.
Possible behavior of teens who date today:
The most important thing we can do to help teens build healthy relationships is to model them ourselves.
Talk to children about safe sex and abstinence. Teens need to know that they don’t have to have sex just because “everyone else is doing it” or because they feel pressured. Sex does not equal love. Loving someone for who they are on the inside and how they treat others is much more important.
Talk to children about maintaining boundaries in their relationships and creating a balance. They don’t need to spend all of their time with their boyfriend or girlfriend but this can be hard to understand when they really like someone.
By Paige Vannarath
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