This Is So Awkward

Acts of service stretch far beyond a resume or a college application – giving back has been proven to enhance peoples’ social-emotional health. Natalie Silverstein, MPH, author of The Busy Teens Guide to Giving Back shares data, real life stories, and practical ways to help kids engage with their communities. Show Notes: Simple Acts Podcast Simple Acts Guide  Simple Acts Instagram  Production by P...

A listener wrote in asking for help balancing how to have open conversations with teaching privacy, especially when a subject is complicated or charged. How can we talk to kids about certain topics and ask them not to broadcast the conversation to everyone they know without conferring shame? Production by Peoples Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Porn is everywhere, which is why kids are exposed – either accidentally or on purpose. It’s on all of us to have clear, calm conversations with them, which is why this episode offers several different ways in with kids of all ages. Production by Peoples Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are adding a second episode each week inspired by listener questions called: WHAT NOW?! where we answer questions and offer next steps to the wild array of challenges that crop up during the decade of puberty. This week’s question: Is my 5-year old in puberty? Production by Peoples Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There isn’t one path to raising a thriving kids, but there is a special sauce to help tweens and teens get there. Educational psychologist and author of Thrivers, Michele Borba, unpacks the strategies that best support and encourage kids. Show Notes Michele Borba, Ed. D. Thrivers  Production by Peoples Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Homework can be a massive source of conflict throughout the school years. Brian Platzer is an expert on how to minimize this: he’s a teacher, tutor and writer. His advice isn’t just realistic and actionable, it changes the dynamic for good!  Show Notes: Twitter: @bplatzer IG: @brian.platzer Taking the Stress Out of Homework Teachers Who Tutor Brian Platzer’s article in The Atlantic Production by P...

Last week, we dropped our kids off at college. This week, we share the excitement, grief, pride, terror, and all of the other emotions that went along with it. It was a journey, from crying on airplanes to remembering there are siblings still left at home.  Production by Peoples Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our two oldest children, now in college, get raw (and funny!) as they reflect back on conversations about puberty, telling us where we got it right and all the ways we didn’t. Production by Peoples Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As kids head back to school, we chat with Dr. Jill Grimes, author of The Ultimate College Student Health Handbook who offers pearls for kids of all ages and the adults who love them. Show Notes The College Student Health Handbook by Dr. Jill Grimes The Campus Cure by Marsha Morris 525 Foundation Social handle: @JillGrimesMD  Production by Peoples Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...

An honest conversation with our interns about hook-up culture, situationships and friends with benefits. Yes, today’s sexual culture is just as confusing as it sounds. Show Notes: https://myoomla.com/pages/the-puberty-portal Production by Peoples Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode will blow your mind. Dr. Yug Varma, microbiologist and entrepreneur, takes us on a journey through the wondrous microbiome of the skin, unmasking the causes of acne and offering up a completely new approach to treatment. Show Notes: Phyla Collection Production by Peoples Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Consent conversations can – and should – start early. So early that they begin around topics that have absolutely nothing to do with sex. Learn how to apply the lessons of consent to a bunch of different topics in kids’ lives and start getting comfortable with a conversation that will happen many different times in many different ways. Shownotes: Tea and Consent Video Cycling Through Consent Video...

Struggles with body image affects people of all genders and all ages. Psychologist and author Charlotte Markey talks us through all of it, debunking myths and offering guidance for building positive body image. Production by Peoples Media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Judging ourselves, judging other parents, judging our partners and judging our kids… none of these feels good, and all clog lines of communication. But this is a really tough habit to kick. The first step is owning our judgment, so in this episode we share a bunch of our own parenting fails and then (try to) forgive ourselves.   Visit OOMLA to shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras!   Produced by De...

Guiding kids through the adolescent years requires finding true north, a trusted point in the distance during the chaos. So we interviewed education consultants and co-authors of The Parent Compass to get guidance on how to support kids and get out of their way.   Shownotes: The Parent Compass Teenager Pro Tips on Instagram & Visit OOMLA to shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras!   Produced by Dear...

We get lots of questions about young love – and lust. It’s an enormous topic incorporating everything from first relationships to hook ups; from crushes to being crushed. This episode explores how to open conversations with kids on all of these fronts while managing our own feelings and behavior on the sidelines.   Shownotes:   The Power of Melancholy on Raising Good Humans Podcast    Visit OOMLA ...

Spoiler alert: the only life hack for sleep deprivation is… more sleep! Lisa Lewis is the journalist who helped pass California’s new later school-start time law, all in an effort to prioritize teen sleep. This episode makes you look at sleep needs – for our kids and us, too – in a whole new light.     Shownotes:   Visit OOMLA to shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras!   Produced by Dear Media Learn...

All about breast development: when they grow, why they can be painful or lumpy (or both), and how to manage this shifting landscape.   Shownotes:   The Puberty Podcast Episode with Dr. Louise Greenspan on Earlier Puberty   Visit OOMLA to shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras!     Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s a lot about the law that is assumed but never clearly discussed with kids. We cover a ton of it – from cell phone rights to the rules around how to act when you’re pulled over by the cops to legal details around sexual consent – in conversation with City of Los Angeles prosecutor Jonathan Cristall.    Shownotes: What They Don't Teach Teens book by Jonathan Cristall, Esq. What They Don’t Te...

Dr. Dolly Klock, a family medicine physician and the founder of Adolessons, has become a go-to resource on the evolving party scene. In this episode, she walks us through what’s accessible to kids today, how drugs and alcohol have changed, and what everyone needs to know about new risks.      Shownotes:  IG: @adolessonsLA FB: @adolessons Tw: @DollyKlockMD Linked In: @DollyKlockMD Adolessons CDC Yo...

Getting kids ready for summer outings, camps, and other adventures means more than just nametags and bug spray. This episode spans the various ways we prepare tweens and teens for all of the physical, emotional and logistical needs of the season.   Shownotes:   Visit OOMLA to shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras!   Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...

Tina Bryson provides a masterclass in the science of why it’s so important to show up for kids and how we can do it, even imperfectly.   Shownotes: Tina Bryson Website @tinapaynebryson The Power of Showing Up The New Adolescence The Sleep Deprived Teen   Visit OOMLA to shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras!   Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice...

Everything from the clothes kids wear to their desire for makeup, piercings, tattoos, certain hairstyles and hair colors can generate stress, conflict, and drama at home. We explore why different generations see self-expression differently and how to communicate our way through it.   A transcript of today's episode is available below: Transcription of today's episode   Shownotes:   Visit OOMLA to...

Shafia Zaloom, author of Sex, Teens and Everything in Between, joins us for an eye-opening and reassuring conversation about teen sexuality, communication and vulnerability.    Shownotes:   Shafia Zaloom's Website Instagram Shafia Zaloom Making Caring Common "The Talk"   Dynamo Girl Puberty Workshop Registration   Visit OOMLA to shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras!   Produced by Dear Media Learn...

There is an endless list of points of contention between adults and tweens + teens: curfew, allowance, screen time, piercings…and on and on. This episode explores how to come up with rules and limits on these issues while making them palatable to our kids, in other words, making our rules seem like their idea.   Shownotes:   Dynamo Girl Puberty Workshop Registration   Visit OOMLA to shop thoughtfu...