I am in no way saying that the parents of the Harvey Weinstein’s of the world are the guilty ones. Not one bit. What I am saying is that as parents, we can help our daughters and sons navigate through these hard and challenging times. In fact, we are the ones who SHOULD be helping them navigate. Not the one sex ed class in fifth grade, not the sex ed teacher. US. We can do better than the generations before us.
Because if we don’t start talking and listening someone else will. The kid on the bus, the website they stumbled upon, the book they picked up, the girls in the locker room, the boys in the locker room, their best friend, the show, the billboard, the radio ad, the movie, the magazine.
Don’t think it won’t be your son or your daughter. That it won’t be your family, because you are good people, because you go to church, because you love them, because you’ve had the talk. There are too many, me too’s for us to think that any longer.
It’s time we stop being complacent parents. We need to uncross our fingers, and stop hoping for the best. It is time to step up, to have hard conversations, to make time to listen, not just once but multiple times, on-going, never ceasing. We need to take our head out of the sand so that there are no more who can say me too.
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This article originally appeared at AlanaDawson.com.
