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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

Explaining Corona Virus to Kids

March 27, 2020June 27, 2022 Nyk Rayne

Times are crazy, weird, hard, all of the above! Here at UN|HUSHED we write curriculum on hard topics the easy way, sex ed done right. The thing is, sex ed is more than just “sex”. It’s about relationships, communication, and so much more. That’s why we’re all about medically accurate […]

Children, Communication, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Family, Family Conversations, Parenting, SARS-CoV-2, 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

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

I Don’t Know!

January 2, 2017July 14, 2018 Jessica Smarr

In their 2014 book, Think Like a Freak, Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner claimed that the three hardest words in the English Language to say are “I don’t know.” This isn’t the wildest claim to make. If knowledge is power, then admitting you don’t know something can seem akin to […]

Children, Communication, Parenting learning, parenting

Condom Week: Who can talk about it?

June 4, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne 2 Comments

Who has the right to talk with your child about sexuality? What about your teenager? Or your adult child? These are questions parents often start to grapple with far earlier than they realized that they would have to. A parent came to me once, very distraught, because her eight-year-old daughter […]

Adolescent Sexuality, Children, Communication, Contraception, Family Conversations, Parenting, Social Media, Teenagers, Violence condoms, contraception, family, sexual rights

What are they doing now?

May 29, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne

One of the various issues with the Disney Princess line – and, in fact, with many stories and movies and television shows for children – is that they reach this point of “and then they all lived Happily Ever After!” It’s such a nice and tidy ending. It’s so dramatically […]

Adolescent Sexuality, Children, Communication, Family, Parenting

When we sexualize the young…

February 18, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne

Parents: Your messages to your children about clothes, sexiness, etc, needs to be consistent across their childhoods. There’s not one (more permissive) message that’s right for babies and another (less permissive) message that’s right for preteens and teenagers. I took this picture at the local Walgreens this morning. I’m going […]

Children, Family, Family Conversations, Gender, Parenting, Sex Education




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