- Maintain open communication
- Foster child’s self-esteem/confidence
- Establish trusting relationship with child
- Be aware of your child’s relationships
- Be good role models
- Model respectful behavior
- Teach children to give/expect respect
- Educate yourself about dating violence
- Talk to your teens about healthy
- relationships & abusive relationships
If you live in RI, be sure your school is following the Lindsay Ann Burke Act
which requires:
- —dating violence policies in schools
- —secondary school staff dating violence training
- —teach about dating violence each year in health class from grades 7-12