Option #1 Imagine a parent
of a pre-teen who is about to have “The Talk” with him/her. Please write the
scenario (where/when/how) the talk would take place and exactly what the parent
should say. Include any resources the parent might recommend to the pre-teen,
or questions (and their answers) the parent should anticipate.
Characters: Brandi (daughter) Mrs. Russell (mom)
Place: Living Room
Time: Noon
In the morning, while eating breakfast Mrs. Russell heard
her daughter Brandi’s ringtone go off on her phone. Mrs. Russell went inside
her daughter’s room to cut off the ringer. After cutting off the ringer, Mrs. Russell decided
to check the text messages in her daughter’s phone and found that her daughter
had asked a question to her friend on what it feels like to kiss a boy. Mrs.
Russell waited until her daughter woke up and decided to have a conversation on
the birds and the bees.
Brandi woke up around 11:00 and Mrs. Russell told her daughter that she needed to talk to her in the living room around noon. She tells her daughter that this conversation will
probably make her feel a little awkward; but that this is normal and that they
need to discuss these types of things. Mrs. Russell starts out by asking her
daughter if any of her friends have ever discussed sex before and what did she
know about sex already? Brandi is very shy and doesn’t really know that much
about sex plus she feels very uneasy in speaking with her mother on this topic.
Mrs. Russell notices the tension and decides to break the ice with her daughter
by openly discussing the time that her mother had discussed the birds and the
bees with her and that this helped her feel more comfortable. Brandi felt a
little more comfortable after hearing this story and Mrs. Russell was able to
ask her another question. The question was what body parts were involved with
sex? Brandi was not able to correctly name the body parts involved because she felt
funny saying this in front of her mother, but Mrs. Russell openly explained the
body parts and also recommended the website called http://www.iwannaknow.org/teens/index.html.
Mrs. Russell asked if she had ever
thought about having sex and if so did she know about contraception? Brandi
said that she had never thought of having sex, but that if she ever did that
she would talk to her mother first before actually engaging in that type of
behavior. At the end of the conversation, Mrs. Russell stated that she was
always open to discuss anything at any time with her daughter.
