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It's complicated. What fresh hell. Laughing in the face of motherhood.

I got some good mixed tapes back in the day with Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson.

So you want to start some drama?

A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas so you don't have to.

Just parachuting in to be like this guy is trash and I know it and you don't, it's not going well.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to What Fresh Hell Laughing in the Face of Motherhood. This is Amy.

And this is Margaret. And this week we are talking about dating, all things dating for our kids, basically. Amy and I are both married. We're not dating currently. We're supposed to be dating our husbands. No notes about how that's going. But I will say right from the start, if you're starting to listen and you're like, wait a minute, I have a three-year-old, I don't need to listen to a topic about dating.

Spoiler alert, you do.

I think a lot of the work that we're going to be talking about and a lot of how we talk to kids about dating is really how we talk to three-year-olds in play about consent and self-esteem and how you stick up for yourself. And when you are kind to someone and when you need to set a boundary with someone.

And this is the work of life and it will play out in your teenagers dating life, but it does not start when your teenagers start

dating. That's such a good point. There's been a lot of talk about this recently in our Facebook

group, Facebook.com slash groups slash webfreshoutcast. A lot of questions about should seventh graders

be having co-ed get-togethers? You know, what are the rules? Can I let this kid be

alone with this kid? And so I'm anxious to hear what the thoughts are out there on this.

As I started thinking about this as a mom of teenagers, it really struck me that these are conversations

that we start way too late or we skip all together.

And so I think I want to start with the idea that like many things, we often think that we

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