in the media
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Responding to "Mean Girls" aka Getting Curious About Cruelty
Let’s throw out the term “Mean Girls” and get real about why kids can be mean to each other and how we can respond productively as parents.
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Adolescent heartbreak
Intimacy, dating, and relationships are important parts of the adolescent experience. How to support your teenager when a relationship ends.
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Protecting and caring for LGBTQ+ kids and teens
Very thankful that the team at Moms Rising gave me space to talk about caring for queer and gender expansive youth in a hostile country. Check it out!
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COMPREHENSIVE SEX ED
Parents care that the sex ed their kids receive is comprehensive and up to date - sometimes that means sex ed happens outside of school with someone like me.
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Supporting Non-Binary Youth
Hear me in conversation on Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner of Moms Rising on supporting gender expansive children and adolescents.
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Talking to Kids about current events
I spoke with Brittany Wong at Huffington Post about the wave of anti-trans legislation and how to make current events and politics a topic of discussion in age-appropriate ways while not letting parental worries and fears for our children become their worries and fears.
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Memory, Taylor Swift, and the Adolescent Brain
Brittany Wong of Huffington Post and I chat again - this time about how relationships in our teens and early 20s get stored in our still-developing, extremely neuroplastic brain differently and much more vividly than those from later in life (the fancy science terms is the reminiscence bump).
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Steps for Stepping Out of your comfort zone
Korin Miller from Well and Good writes about Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone and I share some ideas for how we can and why it’s okay if it’s really scary to do so.
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Supporting Loves Ones When They Come Out
Brittany Wong at Huffington Post catalogues advice about supporting trans folks and I share some thoughts about leaning into the honor of having a loved one share their identity with you.