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Helping Teens Navigate Their Sexual Identity

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

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What Role Can Parents Play in Identifying Sexual Identity?

As a parent, understanding that process that the adolescent, that your child going through, i think i can do can play a huge roll in calming your anxieties around that. The best thing you can do for your child is not give them something that they need to rebel against, that then makes themselves betray by claiming an identity to get back at you. You want anything that they claim to really be coming from their honesty and not pure pressure or pressure from you. So like just taking off the table that the question of acceptance is in any way linked to them being their honest selves in the world,.

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