Tag Archive: NAIS Blog

The Harvey Weinstein Challenge: Combating Sexual Harassment In and Out of School I encourage you to read my article published by NAIS. https://www.nais.org/learn/independent-ideas/january-2018/the-harvey-weinstein-challenge-combating-sexual-harassment-in-and-out-of-school/

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February 16

I am quoted in this good article in the Washington Post: “A Man Tries to Explain Sex to his Son and Finds the Meaning of Life” by David Strauss, Washington Post, January 8, 2018. “Whenever a topic touched upon sex, my body would tense up, my words were limited, and I never over-answered the specific question asked. Here's what I learned.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2018/01/08/a-dad-tries-to-explain-sex-to-his-son-and-realizes-the-meaning-of-life/

Whenever a topic touched upon sex, my body would tense up, my words were limited, and I never over-answered the specific question asked. Here's what I learned.

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January 26

A Key To Appropriate Behavior: Self-Respect Following my recent letter in the New York Times, I was interviewed for the program On The Record, on WYPR, public radio for Baltimore and Maryland. The program was titled, “A Key To Appropriate Behavior: Self-Respect,” on December 7, 2017, and the audio is here. http://wypr.org/post/key-appropriate-behavior-self-respect “We talk with Deborah Roffman, author and human sexuality educator at the Park School of Baltimore, about eye-opening events in the past five years that changed attitudes about taking what you want versus getting permission. Roffman teaches boys and girls as young as 9--fourth graders--and says forming personal boundaries starts with building self-respect.”

The intense reckoning America is experiencing around sexual harassment didn’t come out of nowhere. We talk with Deborah Roffman , author and human

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December 11