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

The kids who are resistant, and we hear about this from all parents, that they really struggle about the way in.

They feel like their kids don't want to talk about X, Y, or Z, and they just feel like their kids are really shut down.

And some of that can be hormonal, right?

Some of that, the silence, the distance can be hormonal.

And as Wendy Mogul said, when we had her on the podcast, she wrote Blessings of a Skin Knee and is just really a guru in the parenting space.

She said, be enchanted with their enchantment.

So if they wanna talk about Fortnite or Roblox or sports statistics,

Talk to them about that stuff.

Sit and be with them in that stuff.

And then there will be opportunities, little moments to find a way into smaller conversations about big, important topics.

And Debbie, I just want to make one point piggybacking on Cara talking about anatomically correct language.

We know that the research tells us that kids who know the correct terminology for their body parts

are less likely to be victims of sexual predators.

Because it says to a sexual predator, oh, someone is talking to their kid, someone is talking to this kid about their body and their body parts and how they work.

And this isn't a good kid to consider grooming.

And we don't like to be fear-based and we don't like to spend a lot of time in this area because it's frightening for people.

And we like to stay constructive and positive and optimistic.

But this is a really important

point particularly for this population because they are at higher risk.

And so making sure that kids have ways to communicate their knowledge of their genitals and knowledge of their body parts is really protective and really helpful, not just in the doctor's office, but out in the wider world when they are encountering people who are not their trusted adults.

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