Healthy Teen Relationships

A Parent’s Guide to Love, Connection & Boundaries, and How to be a Trusted Adult

Shafia Zaloom: March 28, 2024 & February 1, 2024

Navigating Teen Relationships: A Practical Guide for Parents

***UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENT OPPORTUNITY! CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION PARENT EDUCATION - THURSDAY MAY 16 COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS from FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE

EVENT FOLLOW-UP RESOURCES:

Shafia Zaloom shared her wisdom and expertise on a topic that is incredibly important to our community: how to understand and support teen mental health. Dr. Damour​​ offered advice on navigating the teen years, and provided key insight on what is important to understand about the emotions of teenagers, when it's time to worry, and what to do about it. We are honored and grateful to have had her as our speaker. Special thanks to our Moderator, Stacy Cohen, Dean of Students at San Domenico School.

Resources from Shafia Zaloom:

  • CLICK HERE to visit Shafia Zaloom’s website.

  • READ Shafia Zaloom’s book: Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between (click HERE to purchase the book)

  • BROWSE Shafia Zaloom’s articles with tools and advice for teens HERE

  • NEW BOOK: “Yes Your Kid: What Parents Need to Know about Today’s Teens and Sex” by Dr. Herbenick (click HERE)

Additional Links:

Peggy Orenstein’s Resource Page

Scarletten.com
Amaze.org
Sex, etc.
Sexpositivefamilies.com
Strategic Questions By Fran Peavey
Examples of Strategic Questions
Common Sense Media Favorite Books about Sexuality & Relationships
More books for Shepherd

Literary Resources for LGBTQQIA+ Youth

Acevedo, Elizabeth, Clap When You Land, HarperTeen, 2020

Callender, Kacen, Felix Ever After, Balzer + Bray, 2020

Corinna, Healthier & Rotman, Isabella, Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies and Growing Up, Limerence, 2019

Emezi, Akwaeke, Bitter
Feder, Tyler, Bodies are Cool
Hernandez, Mili, Federico and All His Families
Hill-Meyer, Tobi, A Princess of Great Daring!
Johnson, George, All Boys Aren’t Blue, 2020
Khorram, Adib, Darius the Great is Not Okay, Penguin Books, 2020 Kilodavis, Cheryl, My Princess Boy, 2009

Leyh, Kat, Snapdragon, First Second, 2020
Lo, Malinda, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Dutton Books, 2021

Loke, Katherine & Melleby, Nicole, This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them and Us

Love, Jessica, Julian Is a Mermaid & Julian at the Wedding Lukoff, Kyle, When Aidan Became a Brother
O’Leary, Sara, A Family Is a Family Is a Family
O’Neil, K., The Tea Dragon Society

Oseman, Alice, Heart Stopper, Graphix Scholastic, 2020

Ostertag, Molly Knox, The Girl from the Sea, Scholastic, 2021

Panetta, Kevin & Ganucheau, Savanna, Bloom, First Second, 2019

Pitman, Gayle, My Maddy

Prince, Liz, Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir, Zest Books, 2014

Rivera, Gabby, Juliet Takes a Breath, Dial Books, 2015

Rotman, Isabella, A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent, Limerence, 2020

Sanchez, Alex, Rainbow Boys: Rainbow Trilogy, Simon & Schuster, 2003

Sanders, Rob, Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag

Silverberg, Cory, What Makes a Baby, Triangle Square, 2013

Silverberg, Cory, Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings and YOU, Triangle Square, 2015

Silverberg, Cory, You Know, Sex: Gender, Puberty and Other Things, Triangle Square, 2022 Simon, Rachel, The Every Body Book: The LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex,

Gender, Bodies and Families
Smith, Danez, Don’t Call Us Dead, Graywolf Press, 2017

Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid The Witch And The Sea, Candlewick Press, 2020 Ukazu, Ngozi, Check Please! Book 1: #Hockey, First Second, 2018