In a message dated 5/12/00 11:04:36 PM Central Daylight Time,
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 Date:    Fri, 12 May 2000 18:42:54 -0400
 From:    Beth Seidel Ibclc <[log in to unmask]>
 Subject: update on high school talk

 Last week I asked for ideas for opening up a talk for high school students.
 I received so many wonderful ideas that I could have talked for three hours,
 unfortunately I only had 3o minutes!

 Diane Wiessinger shared with me the very humorous words of a PSA run by the
 Ithaca Breastfeeding Coalition and I gave each student a line to read from
 it and that is how I started.  It got lots of laughs and really broke the
 ice.  I also started by passing out a home made chocolate chip cookie to
 every other student and a tiny store bought cookie to the other students.
 Those students were asking for a home made cookie but I told them they could
 not have one. I decided to pass them out myself rather than let them choose
 so they could appreciate the fact that this is a feeding decision that the
 mother makes, leaving the baby powerless as to what he gets...and after all
 didn't every student in the room really deserve the best cookie?  They
 really got it!

 I tackled the sex issue right away.  The words to the PSA start out "I can
 do it for an hour and not get sore.  We love to do it in bed..."  So they
 all were thinking sex.  I asked them if they thought I was here to talk to
 them about something sexual.  Many heads nodded, I told them I wasn't there
 to talk about anything to do with sex or even really to talk about
 breasts...I was there to talk about feeding babies.

 It was a great start and they were almost all paying attention!  Then I had
 picked out short pieces of information...one or two liners about benefits of
 breastmilk, bonding issues...simple statements and quotes, and put those on
 overheads.  I spoke for 1 -2 minutes on each overhead.

 They seemed excited and one boy even told his teacher at the end that he had
 changed his mind about breastfeeding and would definitely encourage his wife
 to breastfeed...that made all the effort worth it!

 Thanks again for all the great ideas!

 Beth Seidel, IBCLC
 Pekin, IL >>

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