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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October News Flash
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More veggies, more unprotected sex. We borrowed that title from a recent Politico headline about the YRBS because it’s brilliant click bait. Also, the YRBS is back! The Youth Risk Behavior Survey collect...
The Puberty Update: Timing, Trends, and What We Still Don't Know
“We have a deeper understanding of the environmental and socioeconomic factors that impact the onset of puberty, not just for individual kids, but for entire communities.”
Just like the kids going through it, puberty data is constantly...
The Insidious Ranking Lists of Middle + High School
“We are talking about laws that are being violated by not just high schoolers but middle schoolers and sometimes grade schoolers. These are not kids who are intentionally trying to manufacture pornography. Law enforcers are so fed up th...
Talk about consent is suddenly everywhere
Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual assault.
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It has been a terrifying and heartbreaking couple of weeks on the college front. Last week’s news about drug overdoses at the University of Mississipp...
The Childhood Wounds We Bring to Parenting
“People really experience their own teenager the way they experience their aggressive parents. So that teenager, we respond to them in the way that we experienced our own frightening parents.”
Our childhoods may be long ago, but they d...
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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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