Teaching Kids to Trust their Guts

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 skill kids need to master. To do this, we need to shed the “stranger danger” approach of the 1980s, replacing it with the concept of “tricky people,” because it turns out that those who harm kids are often not strangers to them at all. This episode is all about helping kids recognize when someone makes them uncomfortable, how to set boundaries, and express difficult feelings in relationships. Show Notes: Watch the full episode on ⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠! ⁠⁠⁠Join the LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP HUB⁠⁠⁠ Go to ⁠⁠⁠Quince.com/AWKWARD⁠⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns. Download the ⁠⁠⁠FREE Playbook for Getting Your Kid to Talk⁠⁠⁠ Order our book ⁠⁠⁠This Is So Awkward⁠⁠⁠ Check out all our speaking and curriculum at ⁠⁠⁠ and our super comfy products at ⁠⁠⁠ To bring us to your school or community email ⁠⁠⁠operations@lessawkward.com⁠⁠⁠ To submit listener questions email ⁠⁠⁠podcast@lessawkward.com⁠⁠⁠ Produced by ⁠⁠⁠Peoples Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Teaching Kids to Trust their Guts is an episode from The Puberty Podcast by This Is So Awkward.

This episode is 57:37 long.

This episode was published on Feb 17, 2026.

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