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

You want to hide it.

And listen, the oil glands are the oil glands and pores are pores and bacteria are bacteria.

And when those three things get together, they really like to have a party and they like to cause acne and it can show up on your face or on your chest or on your back or on your butt or

on all of them, or they can roll out at different times in different places.

And it's all part of a very anticipated experience through adolescence.

I don't mean to frame it this way, but it's kind of a power play with your kids when you can drop a word like situationship.

When I first started using that term with my kids, they were like, oh, mom, how'd you know about that word?

talk about it now.

You know, it opens up a conversation or they roll their eyes deeply and then you know you're in.

Situationship is a great one because it defines the new generation of dating.

And there is almost no chance that the primary adult audience of this book lived an adolescence that involved situationship.

It may have involved some version of a situationship, but they didn't use that language.

I would just add that if you can normalize some basic anatomical language, then having conversations that involve basic anatomical language become easier.

So the first few times you start to use the word vagina instead of vajayjay or hoo-ha, right?

It's awkward.

It's awkward for the person who's using the word.

It's awkward for the person who's receiving the word.

And then if you just keep doing it, it becomes a matter of course.

And you've proven by doing, instead of saying what you're going to do, you've just done it.

And you've essentially just kicked open the door an inch.

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