Difficulty: Moderately Challenging
Things You’ll Need:
- Honesty
- a touch of reality
- a dose of understanding
- Lots of L-O-V-E.
Step1
Try think of this as a special time for you and your son or daughter. This is a subject not to go into lightly afraid to say to much. remember to be totally honest if not their friends will be.
Do not encourage by telling them to do it but tell them all the risk they face if they do.
Step2
Most teens today are visual so start by taking them for a ride to the park or just for a ride around the city to see the baby carriage syndrome. Teen females walking along pushing that baby carriage alone the father no where around. Go visit a relative who is a single mother asking her to talk honestly with your son/daughter. If you know someone with a baby have your son/daughter baby sit for the weekend and not allow your self to help just supervise.
If you have no baby in the family get a doll and put it on a feeding timer for the weekend make them care for the baby like it was their own. Have them wake up to feed it and comfort it even if they are tired. Take them on a shopping spree bring your calculator. You are going to calculate one week of baby supplies. In case you forgot milk (seven cans) Pampers(thirty six diapers) wipes, baby lotion, etc... then tally showing them the total.... Have them call three different daycare for the cost and write it down.
Calculate the week supplies and the cost of day care let them know this is what they would have to pay. Compare it to the minimum wage minus the taxes and see if they have enough to care properly for a child. Remind them this cost doesn't include rent, utilities, food, car note, insurance, gas, bus pass.
Step3
Take them to the library to get information on HIV/AID and other sexually transmitted diseases. Let them know nothing not even condoms are one hundred percent effective against pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease. There are no flashers on a person head to warn them against a person who has a sexually transmitted disease. That the it won't happen to me syndrome is a fantasy in today's time they have to know it can happen to them. Love is a beautiful thing a true treasure their virginity a gem to value not just give away. To save it and wait for that true love the one that gives them a symbol of their love a ring, and seals it with marriage that's true love.