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| Parent and Youth Retreat - "Talk about sex? With them?" by Carol Duerksen | |||||||||||||
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YOUTH GROUP LESSON 47
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| 2 Introduce the weekend with words something like this: Welcome to a weekend adventure when you will be talking about sex together. Now before you all get up and run off, listen up. Kids, whether you want to think about it or not, your parents do know something about sex. They are sexual beings now, and they were when they were your age. Parents, your kids are also sexual beings living in a world that is quite different from the one in which you were a teenager. So … .it’s time to talk about it. This weekend is a time to be open and honest with each other … or at least to begin those conversations. Because, kids, no matter what you think, the decisions you make about sex are not made in a vacuum. They do affect more people than just you. The decisions you make affect your parents, and they may have affects on the rest of your life. 3 Give everyone paper and pens and let them work on this activity alone. Tell parents to make a list of the ten things they’d like their son or daughter to know about sex. Ask youth to make a list of ten things they want their parents to do or not do in their relationship with their teen—half of those things should relate to dating and sex. No one should sign their names. 4 Bring the parents and students together and read the lists. Lead a discussion about the lists. 5 Option: Invite one or more parents to tell stories of their own children and how their sexual choices affected the whole family. These should NOT be parents of the teens present. They should be parents whose children are already adults, or parents of teens not in your church. The stories could involve abortion, teenage pregnancy and raising a child, early marriage. STDs, etc. The general idea is that the story tells about choices made and consequences of the choices. 6 Option: Read or tell stories you have located on the topics noted in #5. 7 Whether you use option #5 or #6, divide the parents and youth into separate groups and ask them to talk about the stories. What do they think when they hear the stories? How do they react when they hear the story? Make a list of the feelings that they had as they listened. 8 Bring the group together and compare the reactions. Continued... |
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