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When To Give Your Kids The Talk | Parenting Uncovered | Dave & Ashley Willis

Name: When To Give Your Kids The Talk | Parenting Uncovered | Dave & Ashley Willis
Uploaded: 2023-11-21T17:00:31+00:00
Duration: 30 s
Channel: Dave Willis
Description: Ashley Willis (on the Parenting Uncovered segment) describes when she and her husband begin talking to their children about puberty—around third or…

21 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Ashley Willis (on the Parenting Uncovered segment) describes when she and her husband begin talking to their children about puberty—around third or fourth grade—and emphasizes framing bodily changes positively. She recommends celebrating puberty, normalizing the transition ("you're becoming a man/woman"), and using light, practical milestones (e.g., getting deodorant) to make the change feel exciting rather than fearful.

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We started these talks, I would say, even talking about puberty and how the body's going to change. Probably around third or fourth grade, wouldn't you say, sweetie? With each of our boys. Yeah. Yeah. And just celebrating the fact that that is going to happen. And I know that it's important that we don't dread that, that we don't look at it like, oh, no, you're not a baby anymore and you're going to have all this hardship and, you know, like, not this thing that they dread, but a thing they look forward to. And so you're becoming a man. Yeah. You're becoming a woman. You get some deodorant now. This is awesome. Yeah.