Cara Natterson

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 343: What You Need to Know About Modern Day Puberty, with Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett · 3 Oct 2023 podcast

And so often we're talking about using soap in the shower.

I mean, you know, sex is a very important but very small piece of the much bigger conversation about growing up and being safe and healthy.

So the path through conversations around puberty and education throughout puberty, it begins with basic tenets of hygiene and sleep and nutrition and exercise and consent in the form that has nothing to do with sex, but consent in the form of

If you want to braid my hair, please ask me, right?

Or if you want a bite of my sandwich, please ask me.

There's so much laying of the groundwork and foundational work that needs to be done

before we can talk about what people do with sexually mature bodies.

And this is not to minimize the conversation about sex.

We have two very, very detailed chapters about sex, STIs and STDs, contraception, porn.

They really cover the gamut of what kids and the adults in their lives need to be talking about and thinking about.

But it's a corner of the conversation.

Our goal is to take a dreaded topic,

And to reveal it for what it is, which is, it's a stage of life that 100% of all people go through.

And so we might as well enjoy it, engage with each other about it, flip it positive where we can, and educate each other with good factual information.

Oh yeah, we can say a word or two.

I mean, right?

Zits on the butt, butt knee, zits on the back, back knee.

And kids have named these things because they deserve naming, because they exist and they exist in spades.

But if we don't name them and

and help people understand them and help people address them with the kids in their lives, then they become either shameful or secretive.

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