Teaching young people how to give clear, confident, enthusiastic, and active consent allows them to find and use their voices and stand up for their wants, needs, and desires in all relationships.
- Ask your teen what their boundaries are related to sex and relationships. Encourage your teen to identify their values and limits.
- Practice with your teen! Help them identify ways they can seek consent from others and words they can say to set limits.
- Help your teen identify how they would handle a situation where someone is not respecting their boundaries.
- Help your teen identify ways they can seek help from trusted adults at home, at school, or within the community if they know about a sexual assault that has occurred.
- Questions you can ask your teen to start the conversation:
- Tell me what you know about consent…
- How do you know if someone is giving consent?
- How would you communicate consent?
- What would you do if something is happening that violates your boundaries?
- What would you do if you knew someone was violating the boundaries of one of your friends?
- What are some ways you can protect yourself?