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Category: Adolescent Development

Why We Wrote a Handbook for Child Welfare Providers

April 28, 2021May 7, 2021 Dr. Karen Rayne

While working as a case manager for youth in foster care, Monica realized that she had little idea how to provide information to youth to educate them about sex, sexuality, and their health. She saw a clear need after having very young adolescents ask for pregnancy tests, trying to explain […]

Adolescent Development, Adolescent Sexuality, Children, Sex Education, Teenagers, Training, UN|HUSHED child welfare system, Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing, TXICFW, unhushed

Teaching Sex Ed Online, Take Two

July 2, 2020February 12, 2021 Dr. Karen Rayne 2 Comments

On March 24th, I published a post on teaching sex ed online…during a pandemic. Since then, I have spent hundreds of hours learning about online tools and online facilitation. I have also provided more than 70 hours of online training with many more planned. Suffice to say, I’ve learned a […]

Adolescent Development, Communication, Consent, High school, Middle School, Sex Education, Teaching Online, Technology, Training, UN|HUSHED

Teaching MS and HS Sex Ed Online During a Pandemic

March 24, 2020March 3, 2021 Dr. Karen Rayne 4 Comments

Are you about to teach comprehensive sexuality education online for middle or high school students for the first time ever? You’re not alone. Many people are prepping without any substantial information, experience, or even research on how to do it! Below are ten tips from UN|HUSHED on how to present […]

Adolescent Development, Adolescent Sexuality, Children, Classes, Communication, Consent, High school, Middle School, Sex Education, Teaching Online, Technology, Training, UN|HUSHED
Evidence Informed Octopus

Evidence Informed vs Evidence Based

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 Sam McAllery

A common query UN|HUSHED receives is about our reasons behind using an evidence-informed approach instead of an evidence-based approach to write our curricula. While many types of curricula are valid and have their place in sexuality education, there are specific reasons why UN|HUSHED prefers to write our curricula using an […]

Adolescent Development, Adolescent Sexuality, Curricula, High school, Middle School, Sex Education curricula, sex ed curriculum, unhushed

Teenagers Are What We Have Going For Us

October 3, 2018October 3, 2018 Dr. Karen Rayne

Teenagers are creative, visionary, engaged. They are immersed in the passion of discovery of life. They have a driving need to understand life in a way that is real and visceral. They want to find the wrongs and right them. Teenagers are like a mirror, reflecting adults and our culture, […]

Adolescent Development, High school, Middle School, Teenagers adolescent development, sex ed, sex education, teenagers

#SexEdSaturday: Sweat, Baby, Sweat

September 22, 2018September 21, 2018 Jessica Smarr

#SexEdSaturday is a series where Jessica Smarr answers anonymous questions received in Unhushed classes. As a teenager, I had at least five turtleneck sweaters, one very embarrassing CD collection, and exactly two sweaty, smelly feet. I mean, they were bad. So bad, in fact, that they once stunk up an […]

Adolescent Development, UN|HUSHED

Me Too: Talking About Sexual Harassment & Assault with Adolescents

October 18, 2017July 13, 2018 Jessica Smarr

I was reviewing my lesson plan and prepping my supplies on Sunday night when I first saw people posting #metoo on Facebook and Twitter in response to Alyssa Milano’s tweet:

Adolescent Development, Adolescent Sexuality, Communication, Consent, Sexual Harassment, Teenagers, Violence

Talking Together: Get a Foot in the Door, Not a Door in the Face

January 28, 2017July 13, 2018 Ryan Dillon

As humans we communicate in many different ways and as technology changes our communication pathways will expand and become easier but complicated at the same time. What do I mean by that? With the rise of texting and social media it lessens the need for a key component to communication: […]

Adolescent Development, Children, Communication, Family, Family Conversations, Middle School, Parenting, Social Media, Teenagers communication, parent teen communication

Caring Before Sharing

September 22, 2016September 13, 2018 Jessica Smarr

In the spring of 2009, I was a junior in high school and cable news anchors were warning parents about the dangers of sexting. For me, this was just another tech threat that my parents didn’t need to worry about, though they probably still would.  The internet and I grew […]

Adolescent Development, Parenting

The dreaded sleepover question

February 8, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne 3 Comments

In a world with flexible gender and sexual identities, what’s a parent to do? I’ve been asked about sleepovers through two channels in the last few days, so it seemed the right time to finally write a post about it. This question comes up all the time – first in […]

Adolescent Development, Adolescent Sexuality, Communication, Family Conversations, Gay Teens, Gender, Parenting, Sex Education adolescents, parenting, sex, sexuality, sleepover, teenage

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