This Is So Awkward

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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. Watch the full episodes on Youtube!

Episode Date
Transitioning to College with Harlan Cohen
Nov 19, 2024
Choosing Joy Over Fear
Nov 15, 2024
Having BIG Conversations with Boys
Nov 12, 2024
Understanding and Managing Concussions
Nov 08, 2024
Putting Media Research into Action
Nov 05, 2024
Handling Lies! Lies! Lies! with Betsy Brown Braun
Nov 01, 2024
Ears, Noses and Throats, Oh My!
Oct 29, 2024
Middle School Wisdom
Oct 25, 2024
The Bloody Episode
Oct 22, 2024
Healthy + Unhealthy Adolescent Relationships 
Oct 18, 2024
Estrogen Matters with Dr. Avrum Bluming 
Oct 15, 2024
Talking About Masturbation
Oct 11, 2024
Raising a Healthy Gamer with Dr. Alok Kanojia
Oct 08, 2024
Messing Up
Oct 04, 2024
Autonomy Supportive Parenting with Dr. Emily Edlynn
Oct 01, 2024
The “Consistently Inconsistent” Adolescent Brain with Dr. Molly Colvin
Sep 27, 2024
Substance Use Questions and Worries
Sep 24, 2024
The Sleep Deprived Teen
Sep 20, 2024
Body Image with Dr. Charlotte Markey
Sep 17, 2024
The Power of Shutting Up
Sep 13, 2024
Parenting with a Big Age Gap
Sep 10, 2024
The Family Group Chat
Sep 06, 2024
Sensory Integration in Tweens + Teens
Sep 03, 2024
Youth Sports (Over-)Specialization
Aug 30, 2024
Fad Diets and Supplements
Aug 27, 2024
The Power of Showing Up With Dr. Tina Payne Bryson
Aug 23, 2024
Interviewing Our Second Borns
Aug 20, 2024
Taking the Stress out of Homework
Aug 16, 2024
Understanding Boys with Ruth Whippman
Aug 13, 2024
Executive Function in Tweens & Teens with Dr. Tori Cordiano
Aug 09, 2024
Kids Managing Their Health
Aug 06, 2024
Late Bloomers
Aug 02, 2024
Empowering Boys + Young Men
Jul 30, 2024
Early Bloomers
Jul 26, 2024
Growth Spurts
Jul 23, 2024
When is my daughter getting her period?
Jul 19, 2024
Plastic Surgery in Teens (and Tweens!) with Dr. Steven Teitelbaum
Jul 16, 2024
All About Acne
Jul 12, 2024
The 4 Pillars of Health
Jul 09, 2024
Boobs, Breasts, and Breast Buds
Jul 05, 2024
How to Talk to Kids About Anything
Jul 02, 2024
Erections & Nocturnal Emissions (AKA Boners & Wet Dreams)
Jun 28, 2024
It’s Not Hysteria with Dr. Karen Tang
Jun 25, 2024
The Sex Series: What Teens Need to Know
Jun 21, 2024
Mood Swings
Jun 18, 2024
The Sex Series: Talking to Tweens About Sex
Jun 14, 2024
Stress Reset with Dr. Jenny Taitz
Jun 11, 2024
The Sex Series: What School Aged Kids Need to Know
Jun 07, 2024
Trends in Sex with Professor Debby Herbenick
Jun 04, 2024
What Jonathan Haidt Gets Right… and Wrong
May 31, 2024
Health Tips for Launched Kids
May 28, 2024
Stress in Growing Bodies
May 24, 2024
Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders with Dr. Kelly Bhatnagar
May 21, 2024
To Spy Or Not To Spy?
May 17, 2024
Managing Failure with Michelle Icard
May 14, 2024
Mistakes We Make With The First Kid
May 10, 2024
Elisa Song on Healthy Kids, Happy Kids
May 07, 2024
Setting a Firm Limit
May 03, 2024
Data and Decision Making with Emily Oster
Apr 30, 2024
Smells and Puberty
Apr 26, 2024
The New Menopause with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Apr 23, 2024
How to Talk about Rough Sex
Apr 19, 2024
Digital Wellness with Dr. Michael Rich
Apr 16, 2024
LIVE! Building Resilience with Dr. Aliza Pressman
Apr 12, 2024
Jessica Lahey on The Addiction Inoculation
Apr 09, 2024
ChatGPT Infiltrates Adolescence
Apr 05, 2024
Understanding Autism and Puberty
Apr 02, 2024
Gambling Tweens and Teens
Mar 29, 2024
Ellen Galinsky on The Breakthrough Years
Mar 26, 2024
Warmer Temps, Less Clothing
Mar 22, 2024
College Admissions with Jeff Selingo
Mar 19, 2024
Dolly Klock on Zyn, Vapes and Nicotine
Mar 15, 2024
Understanding Teens and Headaches
Mar 12, 2024
The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls
Mar 08, 2024
Becoming a Force of Nature
Mar 05, 2024
Understanding the Female Athlete Triad
Mar 01, 2024
Today’s Educational Landscape with Ana Homayoun
Feb 27, 2024
Summer Jobs and Internships
Feb 23, 2024
Nostalgic + New: The Care and Keeping Re-Release
Feb 20, 2024
Puberty Gets BANNED!
Feb 16, 2024
Inclusive Sex Education for Families
Feb 13, 2024
When Kids Treat Us Like Crap
Feb 09, 2024
Pantsuit Politics on Talking Politics with Kids
Feb 06, 2024
Fainting Tweens and Teens
Feb 02, 2024
Understanding Gender with Aydin Olson-Kennedy
Jan 30, 2024
BONUS EPISODE: Raising Athletes with Kirsten Jones
Jan 26, 2024
Rachel Simmons on Makeup + Skincare for Tweens
Jan 23, 2024
Aliza Pressman on 5 Principles of Parenting
Jan 16, 2024
Allergies and Sexual Activity
Jan 09, 2024
Managing Anxiety in Adolescence
Jan 02, 2024
The Grandparent Episode with Henry + Zoe Winkler (Holiday Rerun)!
Dec 26, 2023
Neurodiversity and Puberty with Debbie Reber of Tilt Parenting
Dec 19, 2023
Lessons Learned from the Road
Dec 12, 2023
Middle School Superpowers with Phyllis Fagell
Dec 05, 2023
Understanding STI’s/STD’s
Nov 28, 2023
Fostering Gratitude
Nov 21, 2023
Talk to Your Boys
Nov 14, 2023
Big News! Our New Health Education Curriculum
Nov 07, 2023
Sex Ed Standards Across the US
Oct 31, 2023
Consequences + Discipline with Tina Payne Bryson
Oct 24, 2023
Managing Divorce with Adolescents
Oct 17, 2023
Ask Us Anything! with Nick Kroll
Oct 10, 2023
Emily Oster on Puberty and Parent Data
Oct 03, 2023
Deciphering Appropriateness
Sep 26, 2023
Supporting Cross-Cultural Kids with Dr. Anisha Abraham
Sep 19, 2023
Navigating Tech & Social Media with Devorah Heitner
Sep 12, 2023
What it Feels Like to Finish Writing a Book!
Sep 05, 2023
Is Puberty Happening EVEN Earlier? with Dr. Louise Greenspan
Aug 29, 2023
How to Navigate Changing Friendships
Aug 22, 2023
Battling Toxic Achievement Culture with Jennifer Wallace
Aug 15, 2023
Calming the Chaos with Dayna Abraham
Aug 08, 2023
How to Rejigger Tech Habits Post-Summer
Aug 01, 2023
Raising Boys Who Do Better with Uju Asika
Jul 25, 2023
Self-Diagnosis: Kids Do It, Too
Jul 18, 2023
The P Word with Dr. David Hu
Jul 11, 2023
Hydration Station!
Jul 04, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Sibling Dynamics during Puberty
Jun 30, 2023
Caught Off Guard by Emotions
Jun 27, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Pre-Summer Conversations
Jun 23, 2023
Building Boys with Jennifer Fink
Jun 20, 2023
NOW WHAT?! What is Orthorexia?
Jun 16, 2023
What to know when a kid turns 18?
Jun 13, 2023
Disability and Sexuality with Emily Ladau
Jun 09, 2023
Going Through Puberty with Disabilities
Jun 06, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Health and Sex Ed Standards Across the US
Jun 02, 2023
When a Younger Kid Hangs Out with Older Kids…
May 30, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Disappearing Breast Buds
May 26, 2023
Dopamine in the Adolescent Brain
May 23, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Parenting Whack-A-Mole
May 19, 2023
Importance of Sunscreen and How to Get Kids to Wear It!
May 16, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Situationships, Hook-Up Culture, and the Absence of Adults
May 12, 2023
Study Skills with Dr. Tori Cordiano
May 09, 2023
NOW WHAT?! When does someone need to wear a bra?
May 05, 2023
Birth Control Pills for Tweens?
May 02, 2023
NOW WHAT?!: In Judy Blume We Trust
Apr 28, 2023
Peggy Orenstein Moves Beyond Sex
Apr 25, 2023
NOW WHAT?!: Finding Balance
Apr 21, 2023
Cosmetic Procedures in Kids
Apr 18, 2023
NOW WHAT?!: Managing Chronic Illness through Adolescence
Apr 14, 2023
Raising Kids Through Health Challenges with Dr. Kelly Fradin
Apr 11, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Emotions Around Admissions
Apr 07, 2023
Yeast and Itch
Apr 04, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Does Gender Matter When Talking About Body Changes?
Mar 31, 2023
Executive Function in Tweens & Teens with Dr. Tori Cordiano
Mar 28, 2023
NOW WHAT?! When They Shut You Down
Mar 24, 2023
Talking About Masturbation Can Freak People Out
Mar 21, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Orthodonture Woes
Mar 17, 2023
Handling Lies! Lies! Lies! with Betsy Brown Braun
Mar 14, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Hickeys
Mar 10, 2023
Girls on the Brink with Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Mar 07, 2023
NOW WHAT?! To Sleepover or Not to Sleepover…
Mar 03, 2023
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Feb 28, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Managing Tricky Topics with Dr. Lisa Damour
Feb 24, 2023
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers with Lisa Damour
Feb 21, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Breaking News from the New Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Feb 17, 2023
Body Positivity Meets the New AAP Guidelines on Obesity
Feb 14, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Why Is My Kid Such a Slob?
Feb 10, 2023
The Right Time to Talk About…
Feb 07, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Snapchat Snafu
Feb 03, 2023
5 Key Conversations Before a Night Out
Jan 31, 2023
NOW WHAT?! PFAS and Period Underwear
Jan 27, 2023
Healthy + Unhealthy Adolescent Relationships
Jan 24, 2023
NOW WHAT?! How Tech Impacts Teens’ Social Lives
Jan 20, 2023
Teens and Tech
Jan 17, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Brand New Research About Porn & Teens
Jan 13, 2023
Handling Information About Another Kid
Jan 10, 2023
NOW WHAT?! The Impact of Big Age Spans within a Single Grade
Jan 06, 2023
Intersection of Parenting and Race with Uju Asika
Jan 03, 2023
NOW WHAT?! Getting Silent Ones to Open Up
Dec 30, 2022
New Year’s Resolutions(-ish)
Dec 27, 2022
NOW WHAT?! How Many Friends Is Enough?
Dec 23, 2022
You Thought Feeding Toddlers Was Hard?!
Dec 20, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Starting the Conversation about Money
Dec 16, 2022
High School Romance
Dec 13, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Bedwetting
Dec 09, 2022
Dr. Becky on Seeing the Good Inside
Dec 06, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Shoplifting
Dec 02, 2022
Youth Sports (Over-)Specialization
Nov 29, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Gifting Adolescents
Nov 25, 2022
Sex Talks with Amy Lang
Nov 22, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Managing the Holidays with Tweens + Teens
Nov 18, 2022
Going Viral on TikTok
Nov 15, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Middle School Romance
Nov 11, 2022
LIVE: Caring for Kids Through Mood Swings w/ Dr. Aliza Pressman
Nov 08, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Good Kids, Bad Decisions
Nov 04, 2022
LIVE: What is Modern Puberty?
Nov 01, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Sexting
Oct 28, 2022
Finding Community When Kids are Grown & Flown
Oct 25, 2022
NOW WHAT?! When My Kid is Wired Differently Than Me
Oct 21, 2022
Vocab Lessons for the OG’s
Oct 18, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Access to Social Media
Oct 14, 2022
The TikTok Generation Gets Sex Educated
Oct 11, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Talking About Masturbation
Oct 07, 2022
Penises, Testicles and Internal Reproductive Organs
Oct 04, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Apologies
Sep 30, 2022
Vulvas, Vaginas and Internal Reproductive Organs
Sep 27, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Making Activities Stick
Sep 23, 2022
The Very Real Benefits of Teens Giving Back
Sep 20, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Oversharing
Sep 16, 2022
Starter Conversations About Porn
Sep 13, 2022
NOW WHAT?! Is This Early Puberty?
Sep 09, 2022
How Kids Thrive with Dr. Michele Borba
Sep 06, 2022
Taking the Stress out of Homework with Brian Platzer
Aug 30, 2022
The Emotional Whiplash of Launching a Kid
Aug 26, 2022
Cara and Vanessa Interview Their Kids
Aug 23, 2022
If Only There Were a Student Health Handbook…
Aug 16, 2022
Hook-Up Culture from Those Living In It
Aug 09, 2022
Treating Acne with the Microbiome
Aug 02, 2022
Beginner Conversations about Consent
Jul 26, 2022
Ungendering Body Image
Jul 19, 2022
How to Parent without Judgment
Jul 12, 2022
Giving Parents A Compass
Jul 05, 2022
First Loves and Desires
Jun 28, 2022
Life Hacks for the Sleep Deprived Teen
Jun 21, 2022
Boobs
Jun 14, 2022
Teens and the Law with Jonathan Cristall, Esq.
Jun 10, 2022
Party Culture with Dolly Klock, MD
Jun 07, 2022
Summer Prep for All Ages – From Sunscreen to Condoms
May 31, 2022
The Power of Showing Up With Dr. Tina Payne Bryson
May 24, 2022
The Battle Over How Kids Present Themselves
May 17, 2022
Advice from Famous Sex Educator Shafia Zaloom
May 10, 2022
How to Negotiate with Your Kid
May 03, 2022
Puberty Meets Perimenopause with Monica Corcoran Harel
Apr 26, 2022
Hair, Hair Everywhere
Apr 19, 2022
When Puberty Doesn’t Go As Expected
Apr 12, 2022
What Teens Need To Know About Sex
Apr 05, 2022
Talking to Tweens About Sex
Apr 01, 2022
What School Aged Kids Need to Know About Sex
Mar 29, 2022
Goodbye to Anxiety with Dr. Terri Bacow
Mar 22, 2022
From the Horse’s Mouth: Older Teens Give Puberty Advice
Mar 15, 2022
Menstrual Equity with Melissa Berton of The Pad Project
Mar 08, 2022
Jessica Yellin on How to Talk to Teens About War
Mar 04, 2022
It’s Sex Ed Season in America
Mar 01, 2022
Rachel Simmons on Being Honest and Authentic with Kids
Feb 22, 2022
The Importance of Air (Down There and Everywhere)
Feb 15, 2022
Mallika Chopra on Adolescent Self-Reflection
Feb 08, 2022
The Do-Over (AKA The Best Parenting Tip Ever)
Feb 01, 2022
Unicorn Space for All with Eve Rodsky
Jan 25, 2022
The Brave New World of Period Products
Jan 18, 2022
The Grandparent Episode with Henry + Zoe Winkler
Jan 11, 2022
Body Positivity in Puberty with Zoe Bisbing of The Full Bloom Project
Jan 04, 2022
Pediatrician Kelly Fradin on Talking to Younger Kids about their Bodies
Dec 21, 2021
Care and Keeping with the Original Author Valorie Shaefer
Dec 14, 2021
All About Acne
Dec 07, 2021
Busting Adolescent Myths with Dr. Nina Shapiro
Nov 30, 2021
When You Didn’t Grow Up Talking About IT with Mary Pat Draddy, LMSW
Nov 23, 2021
Adolescents Don’t Have to be Assholes with Melinda Wenner Moyer
Nov 16, 2021
The Science of Late Bloomers
Nov 09, 2021
Dr. Louise Greenspan on Puberty’s Dramatic Shift: Earlier but Not Faster
Nov 02, 2021
Hygiene...Or Lack Thereof
Oct 26, 2021
Having the TALKs...by Personality Type
Oct 19, 2021
The Blessings of Wendy Mogel
Oct 12, 2021
Andrew Goldberg on Big Mouth and Being A World Famous Early Bloomer!
Oct 05, 2021
Someone Has to Go First...The Early Bloomers
Sep 28, 2021
Dr. Hina Talib with a DEEP DIVE on Periods
Sep 21, 2021
Erections & Nocturnal Emissions (AKA Boners & Wet Dreams)
Sep 14, 2021
Dr. Lisa Damour on Return to School Resilience
Sep 07, 2021
Dr. Molly Colvin on the “Consistently Inconsistent” Adolescent Brain
Aug 31, 2021
The Path Through Puberty: Order of Operations
Aug 24, 2021
Roger Bennett on his English Adolescence
Aug 17, 2021
Leaving Our Baggage at the Door
Aug 10, 2021
Dr. Aliza Pressman on Parenting the Emotional Rollercoaster of Puberty
Aug 03, 2021
When Is My Daughter Going To Get Her Period?!!!
Jul 27, 2021
Nick Kroll On Being Late To The Puberty Party
Jul 20, 2021
Why Does Talking About Puberty Even Matter?!!!
Jul 20, 2021
The Puberty Podcast - Trailer!
Jul 13, 2021