Less Awkward
Less Awkward, Vanessa BennettScience-based guidance for anyone caring for tweens + teens from pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson and educator Vanessa Kroll Bennett — subscribe for data-driven insights and practical tools that make puberty and growing up a little less awkward.
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Never Enough Sleep
Today we dropped a podcast all about sleep and our guest on the pod, Lisa Lewis, has taken over our newsletter, too. Read or listen — or both! — to Lisa’s explanations of the ongoing permanent daylight savings debate, why falling back is ea...
The 5 Traps That Make Parenting Decisions Harder
“It's really easy to seek out whoever the authority is or to hear something that's really compelling and then assign authority to them.”
The people raising tweens and teens make what feels like a million decisions a day. How do we know...
Modern Marijuana: What You Need to Know
“It’s not your parents’ weed.”
What you think you know about marijuana doesn’t entirely translate to today’s weed. Yes, they’ve got the same active ingredient — cannabis — but the dose is now far higher, making it essentially a new dru...
Guys and Sex with Dr. David Bell
“Emotions are not gendered. They’re human.”
We’ve covered boys and we’ve covered sex, but we’ve never covered male sexual health… until now. To understand more about what they’re doing and why, we’re joined by adolescent medicine physic...
Multitasking Isn’t a Thing
As we get older, we are increasingly rewarded for doing unrelated tasks simultaneously. We might catch up on calls while driving or reply to a text while in actual conversation with someone else. Most of us rationalize this doubling up as e...
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Science-based guidance for anyone caring for teens from pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson and educator Vanessa Kroll Bennett.
Teen whisperer and co-founder of Less Awkward, Vanessa is co-author of the nationally bestselling book This Is So Awkward and co-host of a podcast of the same name. Coming 1/19/27 Teenhood: Confessions & Lessons for the Trickiest Phase of Parenting.
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