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[quote=Anonymous]Consent and respect has always been the center of our discussions and that started at a young age in appropriate ways.

Not only for anyone else but for himself. I wanted my DS to be brought up to understand if something was being done to him by someone else that he didn't like or felt was wrong (another child, an adult) that he can protect himself and his body and that I would also respect his boundaries. Not making him walk into a room full of adults and make him go around the welcome line to embrace or kiss people like so many parents do.

Now that he's a teen, I also talk to him about consent and respect more freely/straightforward as well as talk about how crazy boys AND girls can be. As a former teenage girl who has a very clear memory of myself and my friends and the type of dumb decisions teens make.

It's important to not make our sons feel like they are guilty of all wrong doing in relationships. Plenty of nutty teen girls grow up to be nutty women and I don't want him to be stuck with one later in life. [/quote]

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