Vanessa Kroll Bennett

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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

Number two is there's nothing inappropriate about the book for any kid or adolescent to read.

So some of the science and some of the language is more elevated and more complicated, but we would encourage adults who don't actually know the answer to a kid's question on a particular subject,

to sit down with a kid and look together at a particular paragraph or at a particular piece of information so that it becomes a trusted place to go.

And finally, we want people to feel a sense of relief that they are gonna make mistakes.

and that it's okay, and that there are many, many, many opportunities to cover these topics, to try different strategies, to do it in new ways, and to cut themselves a break.

We are under so much pressure to get it right, and we just want people to feel like,

okay, I messed that one up.

I'm going to try it again and I'm going to do it in a new way.

So most of all, Debbie, I would say it's just reassurance.

It's reassurance with information and it's reassurance that you're not going to get it perfect, but at least you'll give it a shot, which is most important.

Yeah, I mean, we say not if you mess up, but when you mess up, because we have blown it more times than we can count.

And we do this for a living.

And we don't hold ourselves up as paradigms of perfection, but rather people in the trenches with everyone else just trying to do the best they can.

And I think often people are afraid to enter into these conversations because they don't want to mess up.

And they think that's like going to scar their kid.

But the messing up is great.

It's just repairing it and correcting it and circling back.

That's the most important.

I mean, there are chapters that we really debated, including, I mean, we have a chapter on youth sports over specialization.

It's one of the longest chapters of the book, either that or STIs and STDs and contraception, take your pick.

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