You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.

A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.

As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilgus.

Hey, everyone, and welcome back on today's episode we will be discussing how far is too far.

Today's episode might contain some mature content so if you have little ones around pause it and listen to this when you're alone

okay dr ken is this going to be like that awkward conversation that my dad tried to have me

with me when i was maybe 11 or 12.

This is going to be uncomfortable all the way through.

You know, let's be honest, I think it's going to be a little more awkward than the one that your dad had.

Oh, no. Oh, no. I got to get off. I got to get off.

But, well, let me ask you this. Where was that conversation?

Well, I do remember a very firm memory for me was having this conversation in the car on the way to Mexico from Texas.

It was a long car trip. And we were trapped in the car, my sister and I, and my parents were discussing all of this.

But I also remember bits and pieces of details coming out with my dad telling me what I should

and shouldn't do in dating at restaurants and other places where I was just afraid we were being

overheard.

So I can at least do that part.

This isn't at a restaurant.

I like the way that you use the term, we were trapped in the car. We were. I'm pretty sure my parents regretted the whole situation.

So yeah, no, it's, it's, it's, there's an awkwardness to this because what we're going to talk about is

I think important information that

teenagers don't know about really just the mechanics of if you're getting increasingly intimate

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