Toxic

Episode 13: Having the Sex Talk With Teens Featuring Author Shafia Zaloom


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Talking dating and sex with your pre-teen or teenager can be nerve-wracking, and your inclination may be to avoid it altogether — after all, won't TikTok and P*rnhub teach them eventually? Ugh, no, stop it. Shafia Zaloom, author of "Sex, Teens & Everything in Between" (www.shafiazaloom.com) tells us we should consider changing the focus from drowning our kids in warnings and scary stuff to talking up the plus side of healthy, consensual relationships and sex. Radical thought. She also walks us through an exercise where we need to picture a bear. Listen, it's eye-opening and shockingly, Jenna and Amanda have very different bears. This week, Amanda is also joined by her good friend and parent of a teen Alissa Weber, who she taps for intel on what it's like parenting this age group and what the kids these days are talking about in terms of sex.
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