Episode 42: Learning to be an adult, creative wellsprings, and talking to kids about the birds and the bees

Summary: <font><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Do you ever feel like being a parent means having to be prepared to answer ANY question from your kids about ANY life thing at ANY given moment? In this episode, we talk about scrambling for age-appropriate answers to questions from our kids about their bodies, sex, and those strange noises they might have heard coming from the next room after bedtime. *Ahem*.</span></font><br> <div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <br> <br> </div><br> <div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Other not-NSFW topics of conversation include our current reads online and off, whether motherhood makes you more creative, and even a recipe to try for dinner. </div><br> <div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <br> <br> </div><br> <div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">If you like this episode, <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">or any of our other 41 chat-a-thons, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">we'd love it if you left us a review at iTunes. See thenewnormalpodcast.com/review for step-by-step instructions. Thanks!</span> </div><br> <div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br> <br></span></div><br> <div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">SHOW NOTES:</span></div><br> <div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Podcast Dear Sugar (again!)</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Books: Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Book: Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Book: Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Article: A millennial and a baby boomer trade places by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Michele Hanson</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Blog/book: Adulting</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Blog post: Why Do Teenagers Rebel? Thoughts from a 19-Year-Old Who Didn’t</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Recipe: Jamie Oliver's Cheesy Broccoli Cauliflower Bake</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Hot topic article: A list of behavioural things to expect from preschoolers when they are learning about their bodies</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Book: Where Did I Come From?</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Yay: Miranda July</span></font></div> <br> <div><font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Yay: You can still buy Gratton Design furniture!</span></font></div> </div>