Assignment task:
Goals: To increase student awareness of issues involved in parenting adolescents.
Prompt:
You have two children, a boy, and a girl, who are both about to enter adolescence. At the present time, you are a long distance from your children, and tomorrow you will be leaving on a long journey that will prevent you from having contact with either child for the next 10 years. Tonight is your last opportunity to inform your children of the changes they will experience during puberty, so you must use this chance to tell your children what you consider important to help them better deal with these changes. The only form of communication available to you is email.
Directions: Write two messages, one to your daughter and one to your son. Decide what to put in your messages. The choice is yours, except that the letter to your daughter must discuss menstruation, and the letter to your son must discuss nocturnal emissions and spontaneous erections. You are to write these letters using a vocabulary that will be understood by these children and that will give them a positive attitude toward the changes they will experience.