Kitchen Conversations:  The New Approach to Discussing Sex, Pregnancy, and STI’s With Your Teens

by Elizabeth Schuttler

Kitchen Conversations provides a creative pathway and the necessary steps to begin, develop and successfully achieve talking with teens about sex, pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STI’s).  To have successful and meaningful conversations between parents and teens we need to think outside the box and try a new approach.  We need to understand that “the talk” or conversation on sex between parents and teens does not have to be the traditional awkward and uncomfortable conversation it has always been labeled as in the past.  The conversations in Kitchen Conversations are designed to be light hearted and create stronger bonds and open lines of communication between both parents and teens by tying conversations and cooking and together .

The once dreaded “talk” now becomes a series of welcomed conversations and events that evolve in the kitchen.   Introducing a successful new approach to schedule, plan and execute conversations between parents and teens while preparing family meals.  The new approach to talking to teens about sex open doors to more powerful and engaging conversations.  Conversations on tough issue teens fact today, teen pregnancy, STI’s and the consequences of early sexual involvement.

The author of Kitchen Conversations shares her real life stories and experiences to explain the reasons teens need to understand why early sexually involvement can have immediate and long lasting consequences.  In addition, the current national statistics on teen pregnancy and STI’s are included.  Education, knowledge and engaging teens in successful conversations on the topics related to sex empowers teens to make the best decisions possible in situations concerning sexual actions.  We need to talk to teens about sex!