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It’s time to talk to your children about relationships
As a global community, we’re having hard conversations about relationships and respect. You have to include your children in the dialogue.
4 min readMar 25, 2021
by: E.B. Johnson
In the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder and the horrendous Atlanta shootings, we have once again been faced with a conversation about intimacy, consent, and respect. This week in The Guardian, experts explored how this conversation is being pointed at teachers and parents, highlighting the roles they both play in teaching our youth to be respectful of one another in their relationships.
We cannot afford to downplay the importance of this conversation.
The patterns that we continue to follow in our adult relationships are set and reinforced in adolescence. Our children are learning now how to connect with the people that interest them. They’re learning too where to lay their boundary lines, and what they are willing to tolerate in their relationships.
