Lael Stone
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And you're like, well, if I want him to kiss me, I'll let him kiss me.
And I'm like, great.
And then I go, and what do you, what would you do if he then went to touch like your breast?
And you were like, well, if I wanted him to touch my breast, that would be okay.
But if I didn't, I would say back off, buddy.
I think you were like about 14 or something.
And then we were doing this full role play of what would you say if you're in this situation?
And what would you do if someone did this?
I remember laughing lots with it, but trying to give you language of things to say when you are in those situations to be able to go, how do I navigate this?
Because you said that to me.
I didn't know how to deal with those situations as a teenager where I didn't know how to say no.
And that was what was really, really tricky.
It was encouraging.
Sorry.
It was encouraging this, you know, I'm strong and I can stand my ground and use my voice.
You know, the role playing, even though it was this giggly fun thing.
really that implemented so many things for us so that then when we were in situations it was like, oh, no, I need to come back to this.
I know that was one of the things I always used to say to you guys.
I don't care who you talk to.
Just talk to someone, an adult, someone who's got a bit of wisdom.