120: Amy Lang: Birds and Bees and Kids

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Amy Lang is a childhood sexuality expert and parent educator who helps parents talk to their kids about sex and sexuality. Her engaging, humorous and inspiring style shows parents how to turn conversations they dread into something they look forward to and embrace whole-heartedly. Though her business, Birds + Bees + Kids® Amy helps parents of all beliefs have easy, open and effective conversations about sex with their kids. She is the author of Birds + Bees + YOUR Kids - A Guide To Sharing Your Beliefs About Sexuality, Love and Relationships and Dating Smarts – What Every Teen Needs To Know To Date, Relate Or Wait. Amy has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post Live and Babble.com. Learn more about her work at www.birdsandbeesandkids.com I have been dying to get Amy on the show for awhile now because I knew there might be things I was already behind on in talking to my 4 year old about sexuality. In this interview, Amy helped me get my ducks in a row and she’ll help you too! Listen in to hear Amy share: How her discomfort in talking to her own 4 year old about sexuality catapulted her into a career as a childhood sex expert At what age you should be talking to your kids about sex and sexuality (hint: NOW) Why talking to your kids about sex includes talking to them about masturbation (especially girls) How you can become more comfortable and less awkward as you venture into territory that might be uncomfortable for you The reality of why were seeing more sexualized behavior and mature dress in younger children and how you can protect your child The 3 ways you can protect your kids from sexual abuse Where Radical Responsibility comes into play with parenting and how to find your boundaries between being the parent and being accepted by other parents Links Mentioned: Amy’s Website: Birdsandbeesandkids.com Birds+Bees+Kids on Facebook Book: It’s Not the Stork App: Aaptiv.com (use code SMA30 for free 30 day trial!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 120 with Amy Lang.
0:05.1	Show notes for this episode can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode
0:09.0	1-200.
0:14.4	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms
0:21.2	the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams.
0:25.5	I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building
0:30.2	a life, you're extraordinarily proud of, what kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in.
0:36.7	This episode of the Shameless Mom Academy is brought to you by
0:39.6	Aptiv. Aptive is an app that brings your workouts right into your earbuds by syncing the
0:44.8	motivational guidance of a personal trainer with the perfect playlist to bring you an elevated
0:49.5	on-demand audio fitness experience. Amy Lang is the founder of Birds and Bees and Kids, where she is a
0:57.4	childhood sexuality expert and parent educator who helps parents talk to their kids about sex and
1:02.2	sexuality. Her engaging, humorous, and inspiring style shows parents how to turn conversations
1:07.8	they dread into something they look forward to and embrace wholeheartedly.
1:12.4	Through her business, birds and bees and kids, Amy helps parents of all beliefs have easy,
1:17.0	open, and effective conversations with their children about sex. Amy is the author of Birds and
1:22.1	Bs and Your Kids, a guide to sharing your beliefs about sexuality, love, and relationships,
1:27.2	and dating smarts, what every team needs to know how about sexuality, love, and relationships, and dating smarts,
1:28.5	what every teen needs to know how to date, relate, or wait.
1:32.6	Amy has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post Live, and Babel.com.
1:37.0	You can learn more about her at birds and bees and kids.com.
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