Paul Eastwick

Thanks so much for having me.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Teasing is a part of all of our lives for sure.

Yeah, with kids it's difficult because what we find is that for very young kids, they don't understand that teasing can be fun.

When you talk to younger kids and you ask them about teasing, they think teasing is mean.

They say, you know, you wouldn't tease your friend because they're your friend.

That would be mean.

And it's not until early adolescence and into adolescence that...

You kind of understand there's some nuance there.

Right.

And you can say something that, you know, has that bite to it, has some of that meanness in it, but can still be fun and friendly.

Yeah.

And I think even as adults, we don't always get that.

I think, you know, teasing doesn't have a super clear definition, right?

We know there's something to do with humor.

There's, you know, there's some joking aspect to it, but then there's something to do with aggression.

There's that kind of, you know, mean-ish nature.

But I think we kind of throw around the word teasing a lot and we may not actually understand what it is all the time.

But we know it when it happens.