Puberty Talks and Back-to-School Prep - Ep. 428

In this week's "What's in Your Bag?" segment, Shanna and Laura confess the items they've somehow ended up hauling around, including one thing that survived a 102-degree drive across town. Also, Shanna preps her daughters for the first day of school and finally delivers the puberty presentation she'd been procrastinating for months, and Laura reports on the tail end of her family's Portland trip and a tiny plane Sebastian refused to leave. They also share this week's BFPs and BFNs.

Kids' ages: Shanna's kids are 7.5 and 10.5 years old, and Laura's kids are 7.5 years old and 5.5 years old.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How to spend the last week of summer break

• Creating a buffer day between summer camp and the first day of school

• How schools announce teacher assignments and why they wait until the last minute

• Making a puberty and periods presentation for your kids

• What to put in a tween puberty readiness kit

• Destigmatizing period conversations as a family

• Including younger siblings in big-kid conversations

• Aviation museums with kids: what to expect

• The Spruce Goose and Howard Hughes

• Hanging on to gift cards for way too long

• Using gum or mints to redirect a dysregulated kid

• Changing your child's sensory experience to interrupt a meltdown

• Why your purse becomes a black hole (and what accumulates in there)

• When grandparents win prizes your kids don't care about

• Teaching kids to write thank you cards

• How a small act of kindness came back around

Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:

• Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, McMinnville, OR

• Ice Breakers Sparkling Mints

• Universal Studios Hollywood

• Chuck E. Cheese

• Funny Instagram reel: Bag of clothes for donation in your car

• Next Level Arcade and Pinball Museum

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