What Parents Get Wrong About Teaching Kids About Consent

Maskot/Getty ImagesA relative leans in for a hug. Your kid backs away. What you do in that 10-second window teaches more about consent than any talk you'll have at 13.Consent doesn't start with one big conversation about sex but, rather, a series of “whethers.” Whether a toddler gets to say "no more" mid-tickle-fight. Whether you knock before walking into your tween’s room. Whether "stop" actually means stop, even when everyone else is laughing.Most of us aren't trying to override our kids’ boundaries. A far more probable scenario: We're just trying to get through one family gathering without...

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