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THE PUBERTY PODCAST weaves together scientific research, parenting strategies, and hilarious stories to help guide adults who are raising kids through puberty. Each episode takes on one piec...
Growing up requires the building blocks of many, many skills over time. From crossing the street to driving a car to working a first job, ea...
“Find a trusted adult.” Kids hear this endlessly––you probably do, too, if you’re a frequent listener to this podcast. Why? Because it’s one...
It’s simultaneously wonderful and worrying to launch a kid. The most common denominator question is a version of this: Are they going to be...
If you ask parents what they want for their kid, 99% say some version of: I just want them to be happy! But happiness––and how we achieve it...
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The world around kids’ access to technology is changing at lightning speed – from bell-to-bell school phone bans to the re-emergence of the...
Two particularly powerful forces affecting boys – looksmaxxing and the manosphere – have gone mainstream. If you care about boys and young m...
When people think of gynecology, they usually think of care that happens for older teens and adults, from birth control to pregnancy to meno...
Exams have always been a stressful part of growing up. But layer on growing college admissions pressure, spiraling teen mental health, and r...
What makes kids tick? Even when they appear uninterested, defiant, or lazy, there’s usually much more lurking under the surface. To learn ho...
Emotional intelligence is often called EQ. Some might say it’s a soft skill, but in fact research shows it’s central to lifelong resilience...
Sexuality education is proven to have positive impacts on kids’ lifelong wellbeing in all areas and yet, people assume it only covers S-E-X....
Gut instinct is only partially innate – it’s also very much learned and developed over time. And it turns out to be a fundamental safety ski...
Parenting brings up so many difficult emotions like: disgust, disappointment, anger and more. Layer on top the shame parents experience for...
Kids are constantly analyzing and expressing their views on fairness––they do it in school, at home, on the sports field, basically everywhe...
It’s easy to feel untethered in a modern world filled with stressors and tech-laden realities, but research tells us that the secret sauce i...
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence is affecting every aspect of our lives, including education. When it comes to the impact of A...
The pressure to look a certain way and perform at peak athletic levels keeps moving younger and younger. It begs the question: what’s actual...
Teaching kids about consent begins in their earliest years as they learn what it looks like to give and receive permission for any number of...
We’re not big believers in New Year’s resolutions, but we ARE big believers in resolving to make change and do better. This episode is about...
There is another F word – no, not that one. It’s FAWN, the under-appreciated fourth companion of the well-known coping responses: fight, fli...
Headlines blare with the dangers of tech, frightening parents and shaming kids. Making sense of the data requires research-based guidance ro...
Secure attachment is a term that gets thrown around, but it’s often not clear what it means or why it matters! In fact, it’s a decades old p...
A life with more independence, generally has more risk. As kids get older, they might start walking to school alone, playing on travel sport...
Longevity isn’t just about living longer, but living well. Yes getting enough sleep, eating a balanced diet, and regular exercise are import...
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The world often pits tweens + teens against their trusted adults. But research shows that young people actually thrive when they feel a conn...
Many of today’s adolescent relationships look radically different than they used to: from the labels used to describe them to the order of f...
Higher education is changing at a wildly dramatic pace. Shifting politics, rising tuition costs, and draws like sports and weather all contr...
Gambling, nicotine and e-bikes… Some degree of increased risk taking during the tween + teen years is completely expected, even among the no...
Being a girl in today’s world can be highly empowering, but at the same time it often means walking through a cultural minefield of social m...
The drinks have changed, yet the alcohol education of young people has remained relatively simplistic. This podcast offers listeners the cla...
The endocrine system – in charge of making and sending all the hormones throughout the body – is basically the musical conductor for puberty...
Caffeine might be the most socially acceptable addictive substance on earth. For starters, it’s sold in coffee shops on nearly every city co...
Parenting gets easier right? HA. As our kids get older our expectations grow right along with them, sometimes outpacing their abilities. We...
The world (wrongly) assumes that teenage boys want to be left behind their closed bedroom doors until emerging years later. In fact, tween a...
Individuation is an important theme threaded through the tween and teen years: the formation of independent identity ultimately allows a kid...
The benefits to kids of playing sports are super clear. But the picture has gotten more complicated with the pay-to-play takeover of youth s...
Moving from summer mode into school gear is a tricky transition for everyone – kids and adults. Predictable battles arise over tech use, clo...
Tech, social media, and the law intersect in ever-evolving and highly confusing ways. Rules vary from state-to-state, without any consistent...
Most of us would prefer to avoid conversations about big, hard topics with the kids in our lives. But we also know how critical it is for us...
The skin erupts with surprises across the tween and teen years… and it’s not all acne! Stretchmarks happen when bodies grow out or up quickl...
It’s simultaneously wonderful and worrying to launch a kid. The most common denominator question is a version of this: Are they going to be...
We are rereleasing one of our most popular episodes addressing one of the biggest challenges for caregivers: How do we discipline kids with...
It can be really hard to gauge what tweens + teens actually know about the biggest ticket topics. That’s because, in this age of information...
In this Season 1 re-release: Our own puberty stories are seared into our brains and the temptation is to share those experiences, the good a...
Parents know better, right? Maybe. While we may have brains mature enough to anticipate what’s coming down the road 5, 10, 20 years from now...
We’re rereleasing one of the very first episodes we ever recorded because it’s also one of the best. Developmental psychologist, Dr. Aliza P...
Setting boundaries takes practice: kids need to learn this skill and most adults need to evolve it. Practically speaking, boundary-setting s...
Dr. Hina Talib, adolescent medicine specialist, joins us for a deep dive on periods. We discuss menstruation as a vital sign, what’s conside...