MY PEER EDUCATORS EXPERIENCE

                                           
                                           

            
When I was in high school, during my senior high to be précised, I did training with the UNICEF representatives who came to my school for outreach programmes on educating the youth on different issues of importance, ranging from; overall knowledge on puberty, peer sexuality and how to handle peer pressures of any form.

During this training, I realised that; the youth had a lot of issues ranging from; sexually peer related pressures and bullying, the most emotional part of this training was when, I came in contact with youths facing this problems on a face-to-face basis, listening to them, while they narrated how helpless they felt in the situation and disappointedly how afraid they were to speak to their parents about sexually related issues.

Nonetheless; after that experience I realised how relevant it is to give a listening ear to youths who are faced with issues like that without criticism, because; judging them would only make matters worse and scare them away from talking about such issues with people they should talk about them with (Their parents).   Therefore; parents should endeavour to pay critical attention to their children in matters like this, because; there is a tendency that; they would be getting bad advice elsewhere if parents often careless or criticize their children on sexually related issues, often believing that; they are too young to be discussing such matters.

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