Back to school: Want to actually connect with your teenager? Tactics actually work from Gin Hammond

The kids that I'm going to be around now are all in or heading into high school, and so I'd like to recommend the book The Emotional Lives of Teenagers by Lisa Damore, PhD, and there were some things in there that I've been using. For example, my son and I didn't text much before, but we're texting more now, and different ideas, thoughts, feelings sometimes come through a text more than they will in a face-to-face conversation, and related to that, you're going to get a lot more out of your kid in terms of listening if you're both facing the same direction, like in a car, within five minutes of arriving in the driveway when they know that they can escape, right? So those tactics, those techniques have been helpful, and I recently talked to a dad who's read—it's amazing that this guy read the book Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, who's a sex therapist, and so he wants his—it's geared towards women, and he wants his daughter to be aware of the amazing things in this book, and I've since read the book, and it's fantastic.Seminal idea, all the same parts, different configuration, thank you, Emily Nagoski, which also relates in a way to being mixed, but yeah, so he said, so what I'm going to do is I took the book, and I just put it in her bookcase, and I'm just kind of hoping she'll go, where'd this come from, and just like get into the book, you know, because there's a lot of amazing information, sensitive information, graphic information, useful information, so highly recommend, and especially, think, if you're a dad, and you want to reinforce the idea of consent, consent, consent, consent with your daughter, this is a great book that way, but it's also very sex positive, so you have to be ready for that as well, so if that's you, then that's your book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.