This new series reflects issues faced by today's teens, such as resisting peer pressure, protecting their sexual and emotional health, participating in healthy relationships and planning for their future. Each program is accompanied by an extensive, downloadable Teacher’s Resource Book with dozens of reproducible student activities and fact sheets at the Human Relations Media Web site.
101. Tough Roads: Teen Parents Tell Their Stories [28:00] (grades 8-12)
This powerful video enters the lives of five young parents—-male and female, of various races—-who speak honestly about the contrast between what they thought having a baby would be like and the reality of teen parenthood. Tough Roads takes a hard look at what it means to be an adolescent parent: financial pressures, personal sacrifices, not being able to hang out with friends, unrelenting hard work, emotional stress, often desertion by the partner, lost schooling, and limited job opportunities.
102. Parenthood: Are You Prepared? [20:00] (grades 7-12)
Viewers follow a diverse group of young parents, and a pregnant teen, through their daily tasks. The program is broken down into four sections: emotional preparation, physical preparation, financial preparation and social preparation. Key points include: maturity; a stable home environment; and reprioritization of life, time and money. Teens will learn that being a parent is a demanding job that needs careful consideration before it happens.
103. Take Charge: Resisting Sexual Pressure [29:00] (grades 8-12)
This primer shows teenage girls and (to a lesser extent) teenage boys how to respond to the pressure to have sex. Listening to real kids in dating situations, this program reviews a variety of common sexual pressure scenes and offers effective ways for young people to set their own limits and stick to them. A psychologist maintains young girls often make the mistake of using sex as a tool to boost their self-esteem, instead of learning the real skills of valuing themselves and setting their own comfortable limits.
104. Resistance: Preventing Teen Fatherhood [27:00] (grades 9-12)
This engaging documentary helps young men understand the pressures to be sexually active that come from the media and their peers, helps them understand the lifelong emotional and financial consequences of fathering a child as a teen, and offers strategies for avoiding teen fatherhood. In each case, viewers hear from experts as well as real teens who are grappling with these issues. The program questions the male stereotype of machismo and being sexually aggressive and models the wisdom of exercising the three R’s: responsibility, restraint, and respect.
105. I Should Have Waited [27:00] (grades 7-12)
Under pressure from peers and the media, one of the biggest decisions a teen has to make is whether or not to have sex. Without preaching, this program presents arguments against having sex too early. Follow Lisa through her first day of high school where she is shocked to find that sex is everyone’s main concern. Wanting to fit in, Lisa responds to the advances of Jason, a smooth-talking senior. Convinced that he loves her, Lisa has sex with Jason. The next day he is on to someone else, leaving Lisa to face the risks of possible pregnancy, STD’s and HIV. She realizes that one night with Jason may have affected the rest of her life.
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