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This Is So Awkward
Peoples Media, This Is So Awkward
Frequency: 1 episode/5d. Total Eps: 337
This is so awkward…but it doesn’t have to be. These days, puberty starts earlier, lasts longer, and happens with a cellphone in hand. The most trusted voices on puberty, Dr. Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett, are here to remove cringe from this stage of life – not just for kids going through it but also the adults who care about them. With science, guidance and humor, they cover all the physical, emotional, and social changes that happen between ages 8-18 and beyond.
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Youth Sports (Over-)Specialization
Season 4 · Episode 40
vendredi 30 août 2024 • Duration 48:07
For today’s tweens and teens, youth sports specialization reigns supreme, a new “normal” that presents enormous physical, emotional and financial challenges for kids and their families. We get into all the pros and cons, from helping kids fulfill their potential and achieve their goals to keeping them safe and healthy.
Show Notes:
Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP
Three Sixty-Five brand by Whole Foods Market
Go to K12.com/AWKWARD today to learn more and find a tuition-free K12-powered school near you.
Get 25% off your first order of Phyla, when you visit PhylaBiotics.com and use the code PUBERTY at checkout!
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
Produced by Peoples Media
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Fad Diets and Supplements
Season 4 · Episode 39
mardi 27 août 2024 • Duration 35:09
Most people feel pressure to look a certain way regardless of gender or age. And at least as long as we can remember, fad diets and supplements have been marketed as shortcuts to achieve these goals. Things have only amplified over the past decade thanks to social media. So what diets are effective? And safe?? If any! And how should tweens and teens make sense of all of the information streaming their way at the very same time their bodies are transforming? We try to make sense of it all.
Show Notes:
Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP
Three Sixty-Five brand by Whole Foods Market
Go to K12.com/AWKWARD today to learn more and find a tuition-free K12-powered school near you.
Get 25% off your first order of Phyla, when you visit PhylaBiotics.com and use the code PUBERTY at checkout!
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
Produced by Peoples Media
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Early Bloomers
Season 4 · Episode 30
vendredi 26 juillet 2024 • Duration 42:36
There isn’t ONE time to start puberty or end puberty and someone has to go first. In this episode, Cara explains the science behind early puberty and we explore the social and emotional impact of being an early bloomer. Plus you get to learn what an orchidometer is! This is a great episode to listen to with your kids.
Show Notes:
Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP
Get $25 off any Gabb smartphone GABB.com/AWKWARD
Go to K12.com/AWKWARD today to learn more and find a tuition-free K12-powered school near you.
Get 25% off your first order of Phyla, when you visit PhylaBiotics.com and use the code PUBERTY at checkout!
Andrew Goldberg on Being a World Famous Early Bloomer
Dr. Louise Greenspan’s on Puberty’s Dramatic Shift
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
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Going Through Puberty with Disabilities
Season 2 · Episode 77
mardi 6 juin 2023 • Duration 38:14
Disability rights activist Emily Ladau describes her experience through puberty with a physical disability, sharing her own story in the most eye-opening, heartwarming conversation. If you’ve never thought about what it’s like to transform physically and emotionally while managing physical limitations, this episode will open your mind.
Show Notes:
National Council for Independent Living
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
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NOW WHAT?! Health and Sex Ed Standards Across the US
Season 2 · Episode 76
vendredi 2 juin 2023 • Duration 34:23
We are joined by our fantastic intern, Elizabeth Rudge, to hear what she learned while researching the health and sex ed standards across the country. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there’s a huge range of requirements here, not to mention consequences for *not* teaching the bare minimum.
Show Notes:
Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships with Ebele Onyema
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
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When a Younger Kid Hangs Out with Older Kids…
Season 2 · Episode 75
mardi 30 mai 2023 • Duration 37:12
A listener shared her concern about her early-blooming 7th grade daughter hanging out with 8th and 9th graders. She’s asking a version of a very big, very common question: how should adults manage the known risks to a younger kid in a social dynamic without irritating or alienating that same kid enough that they run straight into the arms of the older crowd?
Show Notes:
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
Produced by Peoples Media
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NOW WHAT?! Disappearing Breast Buds
Season 2 · Episode 74
vendredi 26 mai 2023 • Duration 19:01
This super common question comes our way regularly: Is it normal for breast buds to appear and disappear? (Often followed by: because it happened to my kid!). The short answer is a resounding YES. This episode offers the longer answer.
Show Notes:
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
Produced by Peoples Media
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dopamine in the Adolescent Brain
Season 2 · Episode 73
mardi 23 mai 2023 • Duration 46:18
Dopamine is the famous – and somewhat infamous – feel good neurochemical in the brain. Neuropsychologist Molly Colvin returns to The Puberty Podcast, this time to explain adolescent moods, decisions and actions given where they are along the path of brain maturation and their heightened sensitivity to dopamine.
Show Notes:
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
Produced by Peoples Media
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NOW WHAT?! Parenting Whack-A-Mole
Season 2 · Episode 72
vendredi 19 mai 2023 • Duration 24:39
A parent wrote in with a wonderful question about how to manage the increasing demands of his tweens and teens. When one is having an issue, is there a way to find balance with the others who still deserve (and need!) attention?
Show Notes:
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
Produced by Peoples Media
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Importance of Sunscreen and How to Get Kids to Wear It!
Season 2 · Episode 71
mardi 16 mai 2023 • Duration 34:57
Sleep and food may dominate the chorus of parenting battles, but sunscreen is a highly predictable seasonal interloper. Wearing it prevents skin cancers (and wrinkles!), yet our less-than-consequential-thinking kids often refuse to (or worse yet, they flat-out lie). This episode is all about sunscreen – different types and ingredients and SPFs – and how the heck to get a kid to actually use it.
Show Notes:
Order our book This Is So Awkward
Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
To bring us to your school or community email [email protected]
To submit listener questions email [email protected]
Watch the full episode on Youtube!
Produced by Peoples Media
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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