We Will Educate | All Things Sex Ed

It's sexual assault awareness month! This month, everyone can get involved in supporting survivors and preventing further sexual violence. If you haven't joined in the cause yet, now is the perfect time. Listen in to get ideas of how you can participate and make a difference in your community.

It's sexual assault awareness month! This month, everyone can get involved in supporting survivors and preventing further sexual violence. If you haven't joined in the cause yet, now is the perfect time. Listen in to get ideas of how you can participate and make a difference in your community.

We had a lovely conversation with Rian Gordon, relationship educator and founder of the Healthy Humans Project on Instagram. We talk about what relationship education is and all the ways it can help you, no matter who you are. Relationship education can help prevent sexual violence, listen in to find out how.

"Everyone has it in them to have a healthy, happy, positive relationship. We just need to be willing to practice and put in the investment." -Rian Gordon.

We had a lovely conversation with Rian Gordon, relationship educator and founder of the Healthy Humans Project on Instagram. We talk about what relationship education is and all the ways it can help you, no matter who you are. Relationship education can help prevent sexual violence, listen in to find out how.

"Everyone has it in them to have a healthy, happy, positive relationship. We just need to be willing to practice and put in the investment." -Rian Gordon.

Today we’re talking about sexual education and how to normalize these conversations with your children. We want to share our own experiences that we’ve had with our parents and other family members that have worked and also what things have not worked. Jenna’s parents took their kids on father-son and mother-daughter camping trips where they had sex talks and discussed sex education. Brittney’s mom had open dialogue about having a period and shared her own experiences with her when she began to go through it at a young age, which opened her up to feeling comfortable discussing those topics in the future.

Jenna’s experience 0:35
Brittney’s experience 3:36
A study on parents’ abilities to discuss sex 7:21
A team effort between parents 11:46
Helping you have this conversation with your kids 16:53

“Research shows that children really benefit from talking, learning about these topics at younger ages, and preparing them through the developmental aspects of life. You can start having these conversations with children when they’re as young as 2. Just talking to them about their body and how it’s growing, how amazing it is and kind of building upon those moments to prepare them so that when they are around 12 or 14 years old, they have a solid basis on the topics, but also they’re just comfortable talking about it.” 8:01

Today we’re talking about sexual education and how to normalize these conversations with your children. We want to share our own experiences that we’ve had with our parents and other family members that have worked and also what things have not worked. Jenna’s parents took their kids on father-son and mother-daughter camping trips where they had sex talks and discussed sex education. Brittney’s mom had open dialogue about having a period and shared her own experiences with her when she began to go through it at a young age, which opened her up to feeling comfortable discussing those topics in the future.

Jenna’s experience 0:35
Brittney’s experience 3:36
A study on parents’ abilities to discuss sex 7:21
A team effort between parents 11:46
Helping you have this conversation with your kids 16:53

“Research shows that children really benefit from talking, learning about these topics at younger ages, and preparing them through the developmental aspects of life. You can start having these conversations with children when they’re as young as 2. Just talking to them about their body and how it’s growing, how amazing it is and kind of building upon those moments to prepare them so that when they are around 12 or 14 years old, they have a solid basis on the topics, but also they’re just comfortable talking about it.” 8:01

In this episode we have a mother daughter team to speak with us who design and deliver presentations, workshops, and curriculum to schools and organizations throughout the United States and Mexico. They bring together the perspectives and insights of an educator and a psychologist and they teach their sexual health and responsibility curriculum at public and independent schools internationally, and they support parents in communicating their values and ethics through meaningful dialogue. Additionally, they offer parents and educators practical ways to help children navigate the world of media technology.

What inspired them to get involved in this work 2:11
Sexual exposure 8:59
Helping people know and share their values with children 11:12
Teaching children about sexual arousal in a healthy way 17:12
One thing people should know about sex education 24:30

“That mother had no idea that her son had access to that game, like there were no bad parents here. We’re living in a culture where kids are being told all the time about sex in a thousand different ways, if it’s video games, or advertisements, or YouTube videos, or TikTok, whatever it is, a lot of people are telling them what sex is and what sexy is, and how they’re supposed to be. It’s really outside of what any parent can get control over.” 7:25

In this episode we have a mother daughter team to speak with us who design and deliver presentations, workshops, and curriculum to schools and organizations throughout the United States and Mexico. They bring together the perspectives and insights of an educator and a psychologist and they teach their sexual health and responsibility curriculum at public and independent schools internationally, and they support parents in communicating their values and ethics through meaningful dialogue. Additionally, they offer parents and educators practical ways to help children navigate the world of media technology.

What inspired them to get involved in this work 2:11
Sexual exposure 8:59
Helping people know and share their values with children 11:12
Teaching children about sexual arousal in a healthy way 17:12
One thing people should know about sex education 24:30

“That mother had no idea that her son had access to that game, like there were no bad parents here. We’re living in a culture where kids are being told all the time about sex in a thousand different ways, if it’s video games, or advertisements, or YouTube videos, or TikTok, whatever it is, a lot of people are telling them what sex is and what sexy is, and how they’re supposed to be. It’s really outside of what any parent can get control over.” 7:25

Today we will be talking about what consent means, how the definition has transformed over the years with culture, and then we’ll be breaking down some of the myths people believe about it. Consent is a freely given, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and informed agreement between two people for something to happen or to do something. Traditionally it has always been the job of the woman to tell the man no or when to stop and that no means no, which experts now say should not be the case. We also discuss the myths of consent, such as children under the age of 18 and what kind of things they’re able to give consent to and what things they’re not able to.

Informed, knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and freely given 1:13
Coercion 3:07
How consent has changed over the years 7:06
Yes means yes 9:11
Dispelling myths about consent 11:06
Holding hands and respecting consent 16:01
The basis of consent 18:02

“It also teaches children that they have the right to decide what happens to their bodies, that they are in charge of their bodies. No one else is in charge of their bodies except for themselves.” 14:17

Today we will be talking about what consent means, how the definition has transformed over the years with culture, and then we’ll be breaking down some of the myths people believe about it. Consent is a freely given, enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and informed agreement between two people for something to happen or to do something. Traditionally it has always been the job of the woman to tell the man no or when to stop and that no means no, which experts now say should not be the case. We also discuss the myths of consent, such as children under the age of 18 and what kind of things they’re able to give consent to and what things they’re not able to.

Informed, knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and freely given 1:13
Coercion 3:07
How consent has changed over the years 7:06
Yes means yes 9:11
Dispelling myths about consent 11:06
Holding hands and respecting consent 16:01
The basis of consent 18:02

“It also teaches children that they have the right to decide what happens to their bodies, that they are in charge of their bodies. No one else is in charge of their bodies except for themselves.” 14:17