EP. 6 | Navigating Hard Talks on Gender and Race at Home w/ Melinda Wenner Moyer

"Small actions like these can have a big impact in showing our kids that gender is more complex than the binary idea society often promotes. It’s not a fixed concept dictating behavior, interests, or roles—it's much more fluid" .- Melinda Wenner Moyer Today on Within: Learning how to be more cognizant about gender stereotypes as parents. How to model an equal parenting home? Talking to our kids about race. Tips for opening the sex conversation with your children. Making our daughters aware that they are growing up in a “good girl” society. Talking about accountability in front of our kids. Melinda Wenner Moyer Melinda Wenner Moyer is a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Times. She writes the popular science-based parenting Substack Is My Kid the Asshole? Her first book, How To Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes, won a gold medal in the 2022 Living Now Book Awards. Her second book, Hello Cruel World!: Science-Based Strategies for Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times, will be published in May 2025 and is available for pre-order. Follow Melinda: IG: @melindawmoyer  Website: melindawennermoyer.com Pre-order her new book: Hello, Cruel World! Science-Based Strategies for Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times Subscribe to Melinda’s weekly Substack newsletter Follow Kathryn: IG: @katyrexing  Join us in Panama,in March 2025 for our weeklong Women’s Meditation and Yoga Meditation Retreat  Get your copy of my recent e-book, “Well Within” featuring over 100 pages of recipes, meditations and daily mindfulness practices. Subscribe to Katy’s weekly Substack Newsletter