This is Ask Lisa, a podcast to help people understand the psychology of parenting, now in the midst of a pandemic.

Psychologist Dr. Lisa DeMore, author of two New York Times bestselling parenting books, takes your questions.

And I'm co-host, Rina Ninan, a journalist and mom of two.

Some of what we talk about comes from raising children ourselves. Most of the time, I'll be getting

answers to your parenting questions. So send your questions to Ask Lisa at Dr.Lisademore.com.

So this is episode 33. It's going to be our encore presentation of

Toolbox for Terrible Times. So the things I never expected you to teach me about that you have

porn. Ah, that's right. We had quite the conversation about that a couple weeks ago. That episode has done

gangbusters. It has. And I have to tell you, Rina, I am both surprised and also thrilled.

Surprised because I think porn is one of those topics that parents would really rather just ignore,

and I understand completely why. And I am so glad that that episode has gotten

so much traction because it means parents are looking at the problem head on, dealing with it,

having the conversations. Yeah, that was a conversation. I thought the birds and bees were hard to

have, but you talking about why that is so important. And then also me realizing, like,

I think 1995 was the last time I looked at porn. And a lot has changed since 1995. A lot has changed.

A lot has changed. You know, another thing that you're a big advocate of is taking a break.

So we decided to have an encore presentation of episode five, which is Toolbox for Terrible Times.

And it's so interesting, we're going to replay that this episode.

But at that moment, when we were doing that, my children were just going back to school for the first time in Connecticut.

And I was so emotional in that episode.

And there's so much that we talked about that still stands true today.

It's true. So while we take a break this week, I do hope people will enjoy this episode. And one of

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