Anxiety abounds: it was surging before COVID, but then leapt to new highs (> 20% of all kids!) during and after the pandemic. We’re joined by LCSW Amy Killy to learn about innovative anxiety management strategies like SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), because having tools to manage anxiety makes us all a little less anxious. 
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Managing Anxiety in Adolescence

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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Education for Kids

A listener asks: Is it ok to snoop through your kid’s phone? And if you do, and then you find something surprising or worrying, what next? We cover the complexities of talking to kids when information was gathered while spying on them. 

 Show Notes:
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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.
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To Spy Or Not To Spy?

This sounds negative, but it’s not: helping kids to avoid failure is a major parenting goal. They need to learn to handle setbacks in order to navigate life. Educator and author of 8 Setbacks that Can Make a Child a Success, Michelle Icard, g0es beyond managing kids’ failure to making space for healthy risk taking.

 Show Notes:

 Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP 

 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 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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Managing Failure with Michelle Icard

Ah, the first pancake: it’s either overcooked, undercooked, or somehow both simultaneously. Every parent (and grandparent, too!) lives a steep learning curve the first time through, racking up a long list of what and how they could have done better. But there’s also a silver lining as we all get better at the job over time. This episode is about letting go of the guilt we feel when we make mistakes, instead leaning into a parenting growth mindset.

 Show Notes:
Join our LESS AWKWARD MEMBERSHIP 

 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 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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Mistakes We Make With The First Kid

Trailblazing integrative pediatrician and author of Healthy Kids, Happy Kids Elisa Song has long been a deep believer in the brain-gut connection. Her two decades in functional medicine have made her a leading voice… you’ll understand why when you hear how she explains the gut microbiome to the youngest kids and connects it to issues like teen anxiety for the older ones. 

 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 Elisa's book: Healthy Kids, Happy Kids

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

Elisa Song on Healthy Kids, Happy Kids

A listener wrote in asking: if I give my kid a hard “no” answer to something I know they really want to do, am I just setting them up to go behind my back and do it anyway? Limit setting would be so much easier if it were black and white. This episode explores the gray area of boundary-setting so that adults can remain in conversation with the kids they’re desperately trying to keep safe.

 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!

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

Managing Anxiety in Adolescence

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