'Big Mouth' Creators On Embracing The Awkwardness Of Puberty
Life Kit: Parenting
NPR
4.6 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
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| 0:16.3 | Hi, I'm Any Kamenetz. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm Corey Turner and this is NPR's Life Kit. |
| 0:21.5 | Now, we've done a couple of episodes now on sex education for a new generation. |
| 0:26.8 | Yeah, we did one for parents of little kids and one for puberty and beyond. |
| 0:31.2 | Now, when we do these episodes, there's always tape that ends up on the cutting room floor. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah, not for any fault of their own, but just people we talk to who don't make the cut |
| 0:39.6 | for some reason. |
| 0:40.5 | But for our sex episodes, did you hear what I did there, Anya? |
| 0:44.2 | I'm going to change your name from Corey to Corny. |
| 0:49.4 | You sound like my kids. |
| 0:50.3 | You're terrible. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, so for our sex episodes, we had to cut something that |
| 0:55.2 | Ani and I both really loved. Yeah, but we didn't really think it was appropriate, I guess. |
| 1:02.3 | As puberty begins, hormones are released, and the sexual organs begin to change. The uterus |
| 1:08.9 | is the center of... It's an animated show from Netflix called Big Mouth. |
| 1:13.6 | It's about a bunch of tweens |
| 1:14.7 | stumbling their way through the mysteries of puberty. |
| 1:17.8 | And they don't shy away from being pretty explicit. |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah, so maybe don't listen to this with your kids. |
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