Vanessa Kroll Bennett
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200 appearances
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first heard Oct 2023
last heard Oct 2023
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So she, when I say she's written many of the books that people use, she has truly written many of the books
on the grenade,
like,
Yeah, so Cara can explain the medical and biological evolution, and then we can talk about how that actually impacts day-to-day lives.
Debbie, and this is an even more complex issue for the population that your podcast addresses, but the disconnect between the way a child looks, how they present an appearance to the world versus where they are developmentally and where their brain is on the spectrum of development and in this age range can be vast.
I mean, you can have a kid who looks...
16, who is 12 years old, or you can have a 10 year old who looks 14.
And so one of the things that we really emphasize in the book is that you have to understand where a kid is in their development and in their being rather than looking at them and assuming from the outside, you know exactly who they are and how old they are and how to speak to them and how to treat them because there's a huge disconnect between those two things in the current reality.
And we hear from parents, Debbie, who are like, why is my 10 year old acting like a teenager?
And because they have the hormones that you might've expected a teenager to have, right?
If you have a 10 year old, who's really in puberty,
they might be behaving in the way you expected them to behave when they were 14, except because puberty starts earlier, those behaviors, those hormonal shifts, those mood swings will start to present earlier.
And the funny thing, funny and not haha, but interesting is,
is that puberty is not happening faster.
In fact, it's happening slower for many kids.
And so it's now almost a decade as opposed to the three or four awkward years that we think of when we were going through puberty.
Oh, it's like, you know, middle school and then it's over.
And
It is a long, long journey.
That means that people are having many, many, many more conversations with the kids under their roofs and in their classrooms because all of a sudden, a decade involves a whole variety of topics that people assume they didn't need to cover under the umbrella of puberty.
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