Healthy Boundaries

Age focus: 11–18 Relationships and Sex Education is one of the few subjects where disengagement is often blamed on the students. “They just giggle.” “They’re immature.” “They won’t take it seriously.” In reality, teenagers are highly attuned to quality. When RSE is done well, they lean in. When it isn’t, they switch off quickly. Great RSE teaching is not about charisma or shock value. It is about credibility, timing, and method. And the gap between compliance-based delivery a

Age focus: 13–18 Ghosting has become so common that adults often minimise it. “It’s just how people communicate now.” “They’ll get over it.” “It wasn’t that serious anyway.” For teenagers, it often was serious. And even when it wasn’t, ghosting can still hit hard. What makes ghosting so painful is not just the loss of the relationship. It’s the silence. The unanswered questions. The sudden feeling that something meaningful disappeared without explanation. For many young peop