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Figuring out who you are can take time. You don’t need all the answers, the perfect label, or a plan for what comes next.
50 Things I Want You to Know While You’re Figuring This Out is an affirming guide written directly to LGBTQ+ young people. It’s designed for a parent or caregiver to hand to a child or teen who is questioning, exploring their identity, coming out, or simply trying to understand themselves a little better.
Rather than telling young people who they should be, this resource gives them 50 messages they deserve to hear: you can take your time, you don’t owe anyone a label, you get to decide who knows, your boundaries matter, your relationships deserve respect, faith is allowed to be complicated, you deserve community, and there is a future much bigger than what you can see right now.
Inside the guide:
50 affirming messages written directly to LGBTQ+ young people
Support for questioning and changing labels
Coming out, privacy, names and pronouns
School, friendships and finding community
Dating, consent and healthy relationships
Faith, church and difficult religious experiences
Boundaries and responding to invasive questions
What to do when someone outs you
Encouragement for navigating rejection or difficult reactions
“When You Don’t Know What to Say” conversation starters
“What I Want My Grown-Up to Know” reflection pages
A final page of affirmations to return to when things feel difficult
This isn’t a guide to rushing a young person toward certainty. It’s something an affirming adult can quietly hand them and say, “You don’t have to have this figured out. I’m here while you do.”
Part of the People & Belonging collection from Curiosity & Common Good.
Printable PDF • Instant digital download • LGBTQ+ affirming • Teen-friendly • Parent-to-child resource
Figuring out who you are can take time. You don’t need all the answers, the perfect label, or a plan for what comes next.
50 Things I Want You to Know While You’re Figuring This Out is an affirming guide written directly to LGBTQ+ young people. It’s designed for a parent or caregiver to hand to a child or teen who is questioning, exploring their identity, coming out, or simply trying to understand themselves a little better.
Rather than telling young people who they should be, this resource gives them 50 messages they deserve to hear: you can take your time, you don’t owe anyone a label, you get to decide who knows, your boundaries matter, your relationships deserve respect, faith is allowed to be complicated, you deserve community, and there is a future much bigger than what you can see right now.
Inside the guide:
50 affirming messages written directly to LGBTQ+ young people
Support for questioning and changing labels
Coming out, privacy, names and pronouns
School, friendships and finding community
Dating, consent and healthy relationships
Faith, church and difficult religious experiences
Boundaries and responding to invasive questions
What to do when someone outs you
Encouragement for navigating rejection or difficult reactions
“When You Don’t Know What to Say” conversation starters
“What I Want My Grown-Up to Know” reflection pages
A final page of affirmations to return to when things feel difficult
This isn’t a guide to rushing a young person toward certainty. It’s something an affirming adult can quietly hand them and say, “You don’t have to have this figured out. I’m here while you do.”
Part of the People & Belonging collection from Curiosity & Common Good.
Printable PDF • Instant digital download • LGBTQ+ affirming • Teen-friendly • Parent-to-child resource