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Parenting Unplugged – Listen In

Parenting Unplugged just had Mike Domitrz, the Executive Director of The Date Safe Project Inc, on their show to reveal unique and helpful strategies for parents of tweens and teens. Listen to the thought-provoking interview below. You will get lots of great ideas you will want to implement immediately with your family. If you are a teacher, you will find the tips helpful for when school starts back up in the Fall.

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What is the TREASURE you seek?

When trying to reduce sexual violence, create a healthier understanding of intimacy, inspire bystander intervention, and support survivors, what is the TREASURE you seek? What is the goal you are pursuing? The goal YOU have control over achieving and will sacrifice to do so?

Share in the “COMMENTS” section below and let each of us inspire one another!

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Single, Married, Parents, and Schools

Family life has one of the biggest influences on the men and women in our military. Providing useful and insightful resources which can give our military members with teenagers real solutions to challenges in their home leads to more focused & well-rounded military members.

More and more military installations are having The Date Safe Project, Inc and Mike Domitrz to provide an educational package which is truly all inclusive. The military gets fantastic training, teens of our military members get a whole new approach to decision-making, and their parents gain simple skills to reinforcing positive choices back in the home. For installations who want to provide their men and women the ultimate experience and growth opportunity, they will often do at least the following:

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Listen LIVE to Mike Domitrz

Tuesday, June 22nd, Mike Domitrz will be the featured guest on Parenting Unplugged Radio at http://parentingunpluggedradio.com/ at 1pm (Central Time Zone or 11am West Coast Time Zone). You can listen live from the website. Mike will share strategies for talking to your tweens and teens about dating, intimacy, and decision-making. Join this insightful, revealing, and powerful 30 minutes of MUST HEAR content!

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Share YOUR “favorite teacher” story

How many “story” or “chain emails” do you receive each day? You know the email filled with great life lessons. Have you received so many over the years that you’ve stopped reading them? Is your day too busy to read “those” emails anymore?

If your day is “too busy,” maybe you need to take a moment to read those emails. Find a smile or a moment of reflection at LEAST once a day. Below is a classic email shared around the internet.

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Stop blaming girls and their clothes!

In a recent article about a school in England, females are not being allowed to wear skirts as a “safety” precaution. However, Year 11 females ARE ALLOWED to wear skirts. The reasoning by the school is that skirts put the girls in more danger. If so, then why do the Year 11 females get to wear skirts? The school is willing to put the older students in danger on purpose (according to their logic, skirts create danger)?

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Are you a Matador or do you like the costume?

“Remember that there are many people who think they want to be matadors, only to find themselves in the ring with two thousand pounds of bull bearing down on them, and then discover that what they really wanted was to wear tight pants and hear the crowd roar.” ~Terry Pierce

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Parents Just Don’t Understand (especially parents of teens going to parties)

Remember the old Will Smith song, “Parents Just Don’t Understand”? Well I fell into that category last night (along with another Mom of a high school teenager hosting a party). One of my sons was going to a party at a house where we did not know the family. As we advice in our programs, we called ahead to talk with at least one of the parents – to find out their rules and policies for hosting a party. Do they allow alcohol and what are their expectations for the students?

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