Michelle Icard: ...how to make your child comfortable with difficult conversations

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🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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As you probably know, we're a mother-daughter duo and this episode is especially important to us because we’ll be talking about the ways parents can help prepare their tweens and teens for the emotional, physical and social challenges they’ll be facing.

Our guest is Michelle Icard, who’s a member of the Today show parenting team and NBC News Learn. She’s also the author of a great new book called, Fourteen Talks By Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. We're a mother-daughter duo, and this
0:16.0	episode is especially important to us because we're talking about the ways parents can help their tweens
0:21.7	and teens prepare for the emotional, physical, and social challenges they'll be facing.
0:27.3	Our guest is Michelle Eikard, who's a member of the Today Show parenting team and NBC News Learn.
0:34.4	She's also the author of a great new book called 14 Talks by age 14, the essential
0:41.1	conversations you need to have with your kids before they start high school. Michelle,
0:45.7	thank you so very much for joining us. Hi, thank you for having me. Why have you been so
0:51.2	interested in studying the world of adolescence?
0:54.9	It's such a good question because I am specifically fascinated by middle school.
1:00.2	And so often people say to me, why would you ever want to go back to middle school?
1:06.0	I was going to say the exact same thing.
1:08.7	I think once most of us have gone through that phase,
1:11.9	we're done and we don't want to look back at it. That's right. It isn't a very awkward,
1:18.0	emotional, can be very painful time of our lives. And for me, I hated middle school the first
1:25.1	time around. So I'm not unlike most people listening, but when your kid goes back to middle school, you have to sort of put yourself back in that emotional space again. So I've actually been doing this work for 16 years. My kids are now 18 and 20. So I have been deeply immersed in middle school for most of my adult life.
1:47.2	And I think that what we don't see when we're living it is just how fascinating it is as a
1:53.6	developmental period and how much opportunity there is for growth during this time.
1:57.7	The challenges that have been faced by teens and tweens in the past, say a year
2:03.1	and a half ago, are so different than what they are now. How have you seen kids cope? And what do you
2:09.9	expect these kids are going to be like in the future? Is it going to be beneficial or not for them
2:14.4	to have stayed home for so much time?
2:26.4	Well, you're right. This is an entirely unchartered territory. This is an entirely different time.
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