parent-teen talk

• Good communication between parents and their children is critical to the sexual development and overall well-being of adolescents particularly in view of the easy and heightened access of adolescents to information through various media
• Without proper guidance, adolescents are exposed to inaccurate information that can lead them to risky behaviors
• In the Philippines, it is culturally expected that parents serve as the primary provider of information about sexuality-related issues
• Parents are usually uncomfortable or unable to discuss information about sex, sexuality and romantic relationships with adolescents
• This drives adolescents to turn to their friends and other sources of information
• Filipino parents, while recognizing their need to educate their adolescent children on sexuality-related concerns, feel ill-equipped to engage their teens in a non-threatening discussion about preventing teen pregnancies and sexually-transmitted infections

  
• There is a continuing need to nurture good and effective parent-adolescent communication especially about sexuality-related concerns to effectively enable adolescents to make responsible decisions
• Interventions for the promotion of adolescent health and development need to focus on "facilitating communication between parent and child, training parents to communicate in a non-confrontational manner, while also giving children an opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings"
• Parent-Teen Talk


  A highly interactive and participative adult learning strategy that aims to educate and enhance the skills of parents as well as adolescents in a two-way communication about sexual and reproductive health concerns

  
• Parent-Teen Talk


  • Applies a peer-to-peer educational approach that engages parents and adolescents in mutually understanding the current environment within which the modern adolescents behave and live as they experience growth and development
  • Promotes a non-judgmental appreciation of how parents and adolescents behave and react towards issues about sexuality-related concerns so both parties understand where they are coming from
  • Aims to break the barriers to parent-adolescent effective communication and eventually foster trust, respect, and partnership to more empowered parents and adolescents

  
• Parent Track


  • Starts with the appreciation and understanding of the physical, emotional, and psychological changes that are happening to adolescents by journeying back to their own adolescence experiences
  • Parents then proceed to discuss their parenting styles and appreciate its implications to the way they relate to their adolescent children
  • Parents then discuss the different sexual and non-sexual risks behaviors that adolescents are facing and how they can protect their children from these risks and threats
  • Parents then discuss the most effective way to communicate with their adolescent children given the different insights they gained in the previous sessions
• Teen Track


  • Adolescent participants start with the understanding of the various changes that are happening to them
  • Adolescents then share their experiences in relating with their parents to let them understand the critical barriers that constrain them to open up or communicate with their parents particularly on sexuality-related concerns
  • Adolescents then further discuss the various risks and threats that they may be exposed to and the corresponding life skills that they need to address these development issues
  • Adolescents then discuss how they can improve their communicative relationship with their parents to establish a partnership in achieving their potentials and aspirations
• The Parent-Teen Talk is a four-hour interactive learning experience for at least 10 couples and at least one of their teen children (20 adults and 10 teens)
• The participants may be prioritized from among families belonging from middle to lowest income groups
• The parents will be grouped into one group and the adolescents as another group. Each of the parent and adolescent groups shall be divided into four sub-groups
• A short opening program (10-15 minutes) where all participants are present shall be conducted to provide the background, objectives, and other important arrangements for the activity
• After the four learning sessions, participants will be convened for a closing program
• When analysing markets, a range of assumptions are made about the rationality of economic agents involved in the transactions
• The Wealth of Nations was written

  1776
• Rational


  (in classical economic theory) economic agents are able to consider the outcome of their choices and recognise the net benefits of each one
• Rational agents will select the choice which presents the highest benefits
• Rational agents


  • Consumers
  • Producers
  • Workers
  • Governments
• Consumers act rationally by


  Maximising their utility
• Producers act rationally by


  Selling goods/services in a way that maximises their profits
• Workers act rationally by


  Balancing welfare at work with consideration of both pay and benefits
• Governments act rationally by


  Placing the interests of the people they serve first in order to maximise their welfare
• Groups assumed to act rationally


  • Consumers
  • Producers
  • Workers
  • Governments
• Rationality in classical economic theory is a flawed assumption as people usually don't act rationally
• Marginal utility


  The additional utility (satisfaction) gained from the consumption of an additional product
• If you add up marginal utility for each unit you get total utility
• Rationality


  (in classical economic theory) economic agents are able to consider the outcome of their choices and recognise the net benefits of each one
• A firm increases advertising

  Demand curve shifts right
• Adolescence


  Period of sexual maturation where boys and girls become capable of reproduction. Also known as "pagdadalaga" and "pagbibinata".
• Physical and physiological changes during adolescence

  • Voice deepens slightly
  • Voice deepens and may crack
  • Period of menstruation begins (menarche - first menstruation)
  • Nocturnal emissions of wet dreams
• Most changes among adolescent girls and boys are the same, they just vary in degree (e.g. enlargement of breast)
• The major difference between adolescent boys and girls is their reproductive function - wet dreams for boys and menstruation for girls
• Sexual maturation


  The process where the body becomes capable of reproduction during adolescence
• The adolescent brain remains under construction, with cognitive processes like reasoning, planning, and judgment developing last
• This may be responsible for immature and impulsive behavior and neurobehavioral excitement during adolescent life
• Developmental tasks


  The various tasks that adolescents are expected to successfully achieve during this stage of human development