Teen boys and hormone control

Director of Admissions at a prestigious high school and coach Rob Kodama gives some insight on teen boys and hormone control, as well as what is most important for teenagers to understand consequences.
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Teen boys and sexual activity is a really tough question. Their hormones are going crazy. I think that one of the things that happens when they realize that anything is possible. They think they are indestructible, as teenage boys. If sexual activity does occur, that babies can happen. Once they understand that, and babies are here, you can't put them back. I think for boys to understand that is a really important avenue. Also understanding what it means to be a parent, once that occurs, and how difficult that is. Teenage boys don't think about consequences all the time, so you have to remind them that sexual activities have consequences. I think you run a risk of them fighting you. Go through all the risks, I think they will re-evaluate things and hopefully, begin to think about things.

Director of Admissions at a prestigious high school and coach Rob Kodama gives some insight on teen boys and hormone control, as well as what is most important for teenagers to understand consequences.

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Rob Kodama

Director of Admissions & Marketing, Crespi Carmelite High School

Mr. Kodama has been a Certified Gurian Trainer since 2007. He is the Director of Admissions, Marketing, and Public Relations at Crespi Carmelite High School. He is also the head soccer coach and the Director of K-sports Soccer Camps. He has been involved in the educational field since 1991.  In his role as the Director of Admissions he has increased enrollment at Crespi Carmelite High School nearly 20% within his first five years. He has taught a revolutionary course called ”Becoming a Man” to seniors at Crespi Carmelite High School for the past eight years. In this innovative class, he challenges his students to look at what it truly means to become a man in our society. He explores what their roles are as sons, brothers, fathers, husbands, and mentors. He has presented this class at the Gurian Institute in Colorado Springs. He has served as the social studies department chair, and taught World Cultural Geography, US History, AP Macroeconomics, Micro Economics, and World History.

As a certified trainer and teacher, Mr. Kodama brings a wide variety of experience working with children, parents, students, and athletes. He has been training parents and schools about how boys and girls learn differently and how to help them succeed in school since 2007. He was recently the Keynote Speaker at Pierce College in Woodland Hills for the Early Childhood Development program. He has presented numerous times at The Gurian Summer Institute in Colorado Springs, and has worked with the following schools: Berkeley School, Crossroads Christian, Serra High School, Encino Presbyterian Children’s Center, St. Mel’s School, Kirk of the Valley School, Laurel Hall, Weekday Preschool, Young Oak Kim Academy, Our Lady of Malibu, Palma High School, and Army Navy Academy.

As a coach, he has worked with both boys and girls as young as four, through college. He has been running soccer camps, clinics, and coaching for over 20 years throughout the Los Angeles area. Many of his players have gone on to play at advanced levels of soccer.

He grew up in the San Fernando Valley. He is the youngest of five siblings, and is married and has a seven year-old son and six year-old daughter.

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