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

great.

Yeah.

I mean, I like to say because my daughter, when she was 10, asked me how old I was when I lost my virginity.

And I was like deer in headlights.

Luckily, it was in a dark room and she was going to bed.

But I said to her, somehow I came up with this in my shocked moment.

I said, I'm really glad you feel comfortable asking me that question.

I'm actually going to choose not to answer it right now because it's not an appropriate thing for us to talk about at your age.

But maybe when you're older, if you want to ask me again, I might find the right moment to talk about it with you.

And it's that principle, Debbie, over and over of validating a question, validating curiosity while still being allowed to set a boundary and say like, yeah, I'm going to talk to you about this.

I'm not going to talk to you about that.

But as Kara said, do not, do not lie.

I also really feel like these kinds of conversations are wonderful practice for understanding kids, understanding that you're human and that you had a life before them, but that it's not all an open book.

And what that teaches them is actually they have a right to privacy too, because the age that our kids are growing up in the digital age is

they don't feel so much right to privacy.

And so showing them, hey, I have boundaries about what's public and what's private, and therefore it's okay for you to have those boundaries, I think is a really useful thing for this generation.

Yeah, and I would just piggyback on that to say, if you're entering a tough conversation, a conversation that feels tough for you, you can literally narrate for a kid.

I am so nervous to talk about this.

My pits are sweaty.

My hands are sweaty.

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