This Is So Awkward

By Peoples Media, This Is So Awkward

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... more

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This Is So Awkward episodes:

April 05, 2024 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:
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46min
April 02, 2024 Understanding Autism and Puberty
Navigating the intersection of autism and puberty requires a combination of scientific information, shared vocabulary, and sensitivity to everything from learning style to temperament to neurodiversity type. Hear the guidance of neuropsychologist Dr. Donna Henderson, who is passionate about identifying and supporting autistic individuals.

Show Notes:
Is This Autism? A guide for clinicians and everyone else
Is This Autism? A companion guide for diagnosing
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59min
March 29, 2024 Gambling Tweens and Teens
Move over sex and drugs, there’s a new hot topic to add to the list of the zillion talks you’ll have with the kids in your life: gambling. It’s time to start conversations about everything from online gambling sites to gaming platforms to fantasy sports leagues. Plus the fact that kid-targeted phone-based apps offer lots of entry points into the world of wagering.

Show Notes:
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38min
March 26, 2024 Ellen Galinsky on The Breakthrough Years
Let go of your assumptions about adolescents – it’s time for a reframe! Author and researcher Ellen Galinsky has spent decades studying societal questions – particularly about kids and their families – and offering actionable advice. She sees adolescence as a time for opportunity, creativity and positive change. This episode will have you positively giddy from Ellen’s insights, optimism, and positivity.

Show Notes:
The Breakthrough Years
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56min
March 22, 2024 Warmer Temps, Less Clothing
Changing bodies plus individuation plus warming temperatures. Springtime is a time kids begin to make new choices about what they wear. Some feel insecure, some feel super confident, and some are looking to reflect the latest trends… adults often have lots of opinions about all of it.

Show Notes:
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
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52min
March 19, 2024 College Admissions with Jeff Selingo
The college admissions process starts almost as early as puberty does! Okay, not quite… but it can feel that way. It’s ever-evolving, as mystifying as it is complex. Joining us to make sense of it all and reframe the insanity is journalist and author of Who Gets In and Why, college admissions expert Jeff Selingo.
Show Notes:
Who Gets In and Why
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54min
March 15, 2024 Dolly Klock on Zyn, Vapes and Nicotine
Nicotine ranks up there with heroin and cocaine on the list of most addictive substances. And yet it has been folded into daily routine life, making it a substance that is both abused and normalized. We dive into the delivery devices for nicotine – explaining the evolution from cigarettes to smokeless tobacco in the form of vapes, chew, and nicotine pouches – and then examine why this substance works differently in developing tween and teen brains.

Show Notes:
Episode Resources:
Adolessons
Huberman Lab podcast on nicotine
Big Vape documentary
NY Times article on Zynfluencers
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March 12, 2024 Understanding Teens and Headaches
Kids’ chronic headaches can be one of the most frightening, mystifying, and frustrating issues parents face. To help us understand headaches, particularly migraines and why teen girls (and women) are so prone to them, is pediatric neurologist and headache medicine specialist Dr. Daniel Noam Lax.

Show Notes:
American Headache Society
American Migraine Foundation
Daniel N. Lax, MD
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57min
March 08, 2024 The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls
In a world that fears or reviles teen girls, Chelsey Goodan, seasoned tutor and author of Underestimated, offers powerful insights into what we get wrong about teen girls. Relying on the voices and perspectives of the girls themselves, Chelsey offers a new way forward for supporting and empowering the girls in our lives.

Show Notes:
Underestimated: Connecting to The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls
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56min
March 05, 2024 Becoming a Force of Nature
Youth is marked by the feeling that anything is possible, a readiness to take on the world. And then somewhere along the way, many of us lose that feeling. Photographer and New York Times bestselling author Kate Parker has captured the feeling of unstoppability in her new book, Force of Nature. She shares how she found inspiration in young women across the country, and how we might rediscover it in ourselves.

Show Notes:
Order Kate's book: Force of Nature
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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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