Scarleteen Confidential!
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Parents! Scarleteen is Here for You with Scarleteen Confidential!
Scarleteen.com is a website that has been providing accurate, inclusive, and accessible information to teens and twentysomethings since 1998. Because of doing that, we basically have an ear, as close as it really gets, to hear teens candidly talk about everything pertaining to sex, sexuality and relationships.
So, we’re offering you, parents, guardians, and other supportive adults, the information we gather from all of this interaction and observation, and what we know or suspect this tells us about things some of you could improve, others of you should keep on doing; ways some of you are truly screwing this up, big-time, and ways some of you are hitting it out of the park. We can also share with you ways to communicate with youth so that this is easier on all of you.
About Scarleteen Confidential
Every day, we talk with young people at Scarleteen about sex and sexuality, sexual health and their relationships, including their relationships with their families.
We’ve been providing truly comprehensive sex education, information, and one-on-one help in our direct services online to millions of young people worldwide for over seventeen years now. Our work is strongly influenced by Montessori and unschooling approaches, so we spend a lot of time carefully observing and reflecting on what our readers and users share with us, and engage with them in ways – like active listening and the given that they are whole beings who deserve the respect we afford all whole beings – we find to be most conducive to good communication and nurturing an environment they feel safe and free in.
We’ve got a direct line to young people: we listen to them speak candidly and honestly about all of those things, and where they’ll often talk with us in ways about those things they don’t with parents, especially in families where parenting around sex and sexuality just isn’t going so great, or isn’t happening at all.
We know how impactful parents and guardians are for young people when it comes to sex, sexuality and all their relationships. We want to do what we can to support not just the young people we serve, but their families, so that the way parents and their children are engaging with these areas of life and development can be sources of connection, strength and comfort, rather than places of conflict, disconnection or fear. We’ve also had many parents over the years tell us they’d love it if we had some content just for them.