This Is So Awkward

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 to shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras! Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Teach TeensRAINN – nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization & Visit OOMLA to shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras! Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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: @adolessonsLAFB: @adolessonsTw: @DollyKlockMDLinked In: @DollyKlockMDAdolessonsCDC Youth Risk Behavior Report  & Visit OOMLA to shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras!  Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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/adchoices

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@tinapaynebrysonThe 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/adchoices

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 shop thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras! Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 WebsiteInstagram 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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 thoughtfully designed (OOM)Bras! Produced by Dear Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices