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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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What if the hardest conversations with your kids could become the most meaningful? In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Robyn Silverman, also known as the Conversation Doc, to explore powerful insights from her upcoming book, How to Talk to Kids About Anything. Robyn offers practical, encouraging strategies to help adults communicate with clarity and compassion—even when the topics feel uncomfortable. She shares why you should be the one your child turns to with hard questions—and how these conversations shape their values, confidence, and character.
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| 1:16.6 | Hey everyone. Before we dive in, I wanted to let you know that today's episode is a special |
| 1:21.4 | re-air. This is one of the most loved conversations from the archive, and since so many of you |
| 1:26.5 | are new to the show or may not have heard it the first time around, I wanted to go ahead and bring it back. |
| 1:31.3 | It's still just as relevant today, and I think you'll get a lot out of it. So let's get to it. |
| 1:38.1 | And then if you don't know the answer, because many times we won't. I mean, my kids ask all kinds of questions and now they're |
| 1:45.2 | older. So I might not know either. You know what? I don't know the answer to that. Let's look it up |
| 1:51.5 | together. Or I have this book on that. Let's read it together. And being able to bridge that gap, |
| 2:00.6 | maybe through a book or a resource or saying, hey, you know, |
| 2:04.5 | I know Aunt Jen actually has experience with that. |
| 2:08.4 | Let's find out when she's available so we can talk to her. |
| 2:11.9 | You can be the bridge to the person who knows the information. |
| 2:15.3 | You don't have to know all the information. |
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