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This is so awkward…but it doesn’t have to be. These days, puberty starts earlier, lasts longer, and happens with a cellphone in hand. The most trusted voices on puberty, Dr. Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett, are here to remove cringe from this stage of life – not just for kids going through it but also the adults who care about them. With science, guidance and humor, they cover all the physical, emotional, and social changes that happen between ages 8-18 and beyond.
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This Is So Awkward Peoples Media

    • Kids & Family
    • 4.7 • 278 Ratings

This is so awkward…but it doesn’t have to be. These days, puberty starts earlier, lasts longer, and happens with a cellphone in hand. The most trusted voices on puberty, Dr. Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett, are here to remove cringe from this stage of life – not just for kids going through it but also the adults who care about them. With science, guidance and humor, they cover all the physical, emotional, and social changes that happen between ages 8-18 and beyond.
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    The New Menopause with Dr. Mary Claire Haver

    The New Menopause with Dr. Mary Claire Haver

    Menopause maven Dr. Mary Claire Haver, author of The New Menopause, joins us to debunk myths and educate listeners about some of the big topics like: hormone therapy treatment, the data on estrogen, and new ways to approach this complex stage of life that so often intersects with puberty.

    Show Notes:
    Go to magicspoon.com/PUBERTY to save $5
    Visit Bioptimizers.com/PUBERTY and use code PUBERTY10 for 10% off your purchase.
    Go to FACTORMEALS.COM/puberty50 and use code puberty50 to get 50% off your order.
    Get 25% off your first order of Phyla, when you visit PhylaBiotics.com and use the code PUBERTY at checkout!

    The New Menopause by Mary Claire Haver
    North American Menopause Society

    NEW! Community Membership and link this https://lessawkward.com/community/

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    Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
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    To submit listener questions email podcast@lessawkward.com
    Watch the full episode on Youtube!
    Produced by Peoples Media

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    • 52 min
    How to Talk about Rough Sex

    How to Talk about Rough Sex

    Recent news highlights troubling trends in sex, like sexual strangulation (often called choking). Acknowledgment of sexual aggression among teens and young adults — and they report lots of it — has motivated many adults to engage in conversations about sexual mores with the kids in their lives… not one of the sex talks they ever imagined having. This episode provides some initial ways into those conversations.

    Show Notes:
    Go to magicspoon.com/PUBERTY to save $5
    Visit Bioptimizers.com/PUBERTY and use code PUBERTY10 for 10% off your purchase.
    Go to FACTORMEALS.COM/puberty50 and use code puberty50 to get 50% off your order.
    Get 25% off your first order of Phyla, when you visit PhylaBiotics.com and use the code PUBERTY at checkout!
    The Troubling Trend in Teenage Sex

    NEW! Community Membership and link this https://lessawkward.com/community/

    Order our book This Is So Awkward
    Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
    To bring us to your school or community email operations@lessawkward.com
    To submit listener questions email podcast@lessawkward.com
    Watch the full episode on Youtube!
    Produced by Peoples Media

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    • 36 min
    Digital Wellness with Dr. Michael Rich

    Digital Wellness with Dr. Michael Rich

    Managing technology use is one of the steepest climbs in the modern age. It’s true for ourselves, and goes double for kids we care about. Dr. Michael Rich, author of The Mediatrician’s Guide and founder/director of the Digital Wellness Lab, frames the current issues and then offers calm, thoughtful advice.

    Show Notes:
    Go to magicspoon.com/PUBERTY to save $5
    Visit Bioptimizers.com/PUBERTY and use code PUBERTY10 for 10% off your purchase.
    Go to FACTORMEALS.COM/puberty50 and use code puberty50 to get 50% off your order.
    Get 25% off your first order of Phyla, when you visit PhylaBiotics.com and use the code PUBERTY at checkout!

    The Mediatrician’s Guide
    Digital Wellness Lab

    Order our book This Is So Awkward
    Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
    To bring us to your school or community email operations@lessawkward.com
    To submit listener questions email thepubertypodcast@gmail.com
    Watch the full episode on Youtube!
    Produced by Peoples Media


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    • 49 min
    LIVE! Building Resilience with Dr. Aliza Pressman

    LIVE! Building Resilience with Dr. Aliza Pressman

    In this live recording, Dr. Aliza Pressman offers actionable and realistic ways to build resilience in kids (and ourselves). Her advice, grounded in the fundamental principles of developmental psychology, adds a joyful and humorous twist!

    Show Notes:
    Go to magicspoon.com/PUBERTY to save $5
    Visit Bioptimizers.com/PUBERTY and use code PUBERTY10 for 10% off your purchase.
    Go to FACTORMEALS.COM/puberty50 and use code puberty50 to get 50% off your order.
    Get 25% off your first order of Phyla, when you visit PhylaBiotics.com and use the code PUBERTY at checkout!
    Order Dr. Aliza Pressman's book The 5 Principles of Parenting
    (And our book This Is So Awkward)
    Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
    To bring us to your school or community email operations@lessawkward.com
    To submit listener questions email thepubertypodcast@gmail.com
    Watch the full episode on Youtube!
    Produced by Peoples Media
    Transcript

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    • 50 min
    Jessica Lahey on The Addiction Inoculation

    Jessica Lahey on The Addiction Inoculation

    Substance use and abuse education is critical to keeping kids healthy and safe through adolescence and beyond. We’re joined by bestselling author and teacher Jessica Lahey who combines the best research about teen brains with clear how-to-advice. This episode is so rich with science and data, you’ll revisit this episode down the road. 
    Show Notes:
    Go to magicspoon.com/PUBERTY to save $5
    Visit Bioptimizers.com/PUBERTY and use code PUBERTY10 for 10% off your purchase.
    Go to FACTORMEALS.COM/puberty50 and use code puberty50 to get 50% off your order.
    Get 25% off your first order of Phyla, when you visit PhylaBiotics.com and use the code PUBERTY at checkout!
    Jessica Lahey Videos 
    The Addiction Inoculation by Jessica Lahey
    Dopamine Nation by Anna Lemke
    High by David and Nic Sheff
    Order our book This Is So Awkward
    Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
    To bring us to your school or community email operations@lessawkward.com
    To submit listener questions email thepubertypodcast@gmail.com
    Watch the full episode on Youtube!
    Produced by Peoples Media
    Transcript

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    • 1 hr
    ChatGPT Infiltrates Adolescence

    ChatGPT Infiltrates Adolescence

    Artificial intelligence – and especially ChatGPT – have been ascendant this year. This episode asks (humans) about all the ways this technology has rapidly integrated into our lives. Suddenly there are a whole host of conversations to have with kids about the use of AI, in school and beyond.

    Show Notes:
    Visit Bioptimizers.com/PUBERTY and use code PUBERTY10 for 10% off your purchase.
    Go to FACTORMEALS.COM/puberty50 and use code puberty50 to get 50% off your order.
    Get 25% off your first order of Phyla, when you visit PhylaBiotics.com and use the code PUBERTY at checkout!
    Order our book This Is So Awkward
    Check out all our speaking and curriculum at www.lessawkward.com and our super comfy products at www.myoomla.com
    To bring us to your school or community email operations@lessawkward.com
    To submit listener questions email thepubertypodcast@gmail.com
    Watch the full episode on Youtube!
    Produced by Peoples Media
    Transcript

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 39 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
278 Ratings

278 Ratings

iheartpodcasts30 ,

Love the show, cue your ad breaks!

Love this show, but please consider adding at the very least a second of silence before the ad breaks- it’s so disorienting as it cuts in while you’re talking. A little fade in, fade out music could serve as a cue, you don’t even need to tell us you’re going to a break… truly love the show so accept this critique with love!

SlayerLady ,

Great information and fun to listen to!

My boyfriend is a single dad with a tween and I find it very helpful to hear lots of relevant discussions and a reminder that “you are not alone “ in dealing with the latest challenge.

RunnerRD ,

Some good but some cringeworthy

I really wanted to love this podcast, but there are a lot of views that do not mesh with Christian values. So, if that is what you’re looking for, this isn’t the place. There is definitely some good content here, but a lot of things make me cringe.

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