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Category: Family Conversations

Explaining Corona Virus to Kids

March 27, 2020July 8, 2020 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

The Pitfalls of Trite Advice

October 18, 2018 Dr. Karen Rayne

You have probably heard all kinds of trite relationship advice over life because it’s a staple of conversations about relationships. You may even give trite relationship advice sometimes, because sometimes it’s useful. But it’s important to see the advice for what it is and consider whether what you’re repeating makes […]

Classes, Communication, Family Conversations, Sex Education advice, facilitating, sex education, sexuality education, teaching, trite advice

Back to School (i.e., Unhushed Comprehensive Sex Ed)!

August 7, 2018September 13, 2018 Dr. Karen Rayne

For ten years now I have sent out a variation of an email that I just sent out a few days ago. It’s a momentous occasion for me, and I’m so excited to share it with you: This is UN|HUSHED’s 10th year providing comprehensive sexuality education programs to the Austin […]

Classes, Family Conversations, Middle School, Parenting, Sex Education

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

Breaking the Hush Factor: Ten Rules for Talking with Teenagers about Sex

May 27, 2015 Dr. Karen Rayne

Dear parents, You may have heard about my book, Breaking the Hush Factor, and this post is to give you some more information about the theoretical underpinnings that support the ten rules in the book. Recently, my friend and midwife Christy Tashjian and her wife Jenni Huntly interviewed me for her blog. […]

Breaking the Hush Factor, Family Conversations, Parenting, Sex Education book, Breaking the Hush Factor, parent teen communication

Need a date night? I've got you covered!

June 25, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne 2 Comments

You asked for it. I’m delivering it. Parents have asked me for some time to have a sex ed class for adults. But that never sat quite right with me. Parents need something special. Something unique. Something that recognizes that their time away from their children is unusual and should be […]

Adult Sex Ed, Classes, Communication, Family Conversations, Parenting Have You Seen SEX, Sam Killermann, sex ed for adults

Condom Week: Today's debate: Providing condoms for your teens…?

June 6, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne

No side: BUT THEN THEY’LL HAVE SEX! Yes side: But if they want to, they’ll have sex anyway. I do an experiment with my classes every now and then, for fun. I ask them through an anonymous question and answer system whether they plan to have sex later in the […]

Adolescent Sexuality, Communication, Contraception, Family Conversations, Parenting, Teenagers

Condom Week: Condom time? Hooray!

June 5, 2014 Dr. Karen Rayne

Condoms can be hilarious. I mean, really, really funny and fun. Starting with condom commercials (and I’m particularly fond of the international ones…)   To all of the just absurd things that people film themselves doing with condoms and then upload to YouTube: Young people are able to identify with […]

Adolescent Sexuality, Communication, Contraception, Family Conversations, 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

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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