186. A Banned Book, Helping the Next Generation, and Closing the orgasm gap by 2040

<p>Dr. Carrie Leff is a practicing Internist and Pediatrician in Michigan. She is passionate about Adolescent and Women's health. Dr. Leff is on a mission to educate teens about their bodies and to help parents become more comfortable with difficult conversations with their kids. She is the mother of 3 daughters, a professional multi-tasker and a believer in the power of women.</p> <p>Dr. Leff co-wrote Celebrate Your Body 2: The Ultimate Puberty Book for Preteen and Teen Girls in 2019. It is a #1 Best seller in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/171188/ref=zg_b_bs_171188_1" title="Teen & Young Adult Health Books on Sexuality & Pregnancy"> in Teen & Young Adult Health Books on Sexuality & Pregnancy</a> on Amazon.</p> <p>We met at the ISSWSH conference March 2022 in Texas – we were both giving lectures.</p> <p>“Mommy, I feel like you wrote this book just for me” – Dr. Leff’s daughter</p> <p>Why she wrote this book and created a program about puberty?</p> <p>How puberty is like menopause.</p> <p>She discusses when puberty starts and what first signs are.</p> <p>What does an all-American puberty education in a public school look like?</p> <p>“Talking to your kids should be 30 one minute conversations, not one 30 minute conversation” – Dr. Leff</p> <p>“Our kids aren’t connecting puberty and sex unless we make that connection for them” – Dr. Leff</p> <p>If you can’t/won’t discuss puberty with your kids then you are teaching them that you aren’t a resource for this information.</p> <p>I love how you call private parts “personal parts” – why is this important?</p> <p>So many middle aged women have body shame – when does this start?</p> <p>How she found out her book was banned.</p> <p>Consent – example of trying a shirt on at a store - - so important – many middle age women don’t practice consent.</p> <p>How to close the orgasm gap by 2040 – her plan</p> <p>A golden question, “how will you know you are ready to have sex?”</p> <p>Moms buying teens their first vibrators – thoughts and her experience</p> <p>You didn’t bring up birth control – when to bring it up, how to bring it up, resources for adults.</p> <p>You wrote an op-ed for the Washington post about your book getting banned: “Some parents believe that telling children the truth about sex and our bodies will spoil their innocence. But innocence and ignorance are not the same.”</p> <p>Celebrate Your Body 2 Book: <a href="https://amzn.to/3dLZzc7">https://amzn.to/3dLZzc7</a></p> <p>https://turningteen.com/</p> <p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/drcarrieleff/">https://www.instagram.com/drcarrieleff/</a></p> <p>Did you get the You Are Not Broken Book Yet? <a href="https://amzn.to/3p18DfK">https://amzn.to/3p18DfK</a></p> <p>Join my membership to get these episodes ASAP when they are created and without advertisement and even listen live to the interviews and episodes.</p> <p><a href="http://www.kellycaspersonmd.com/membership">www.kellycaspersonmd.com/membership</a></p> <p><strong>Our podcast sponsor is Bonafide</strong></p> <p>Bonafide products help women embrace the natural changes that occur throughout all phases of life.</p> <p><strong>Discount code for 20% off:</strong>NOTBROKEN</p> <p><strong>Sales link: </strong><a href="https://hellobonafide.com/notbroken"><strong>https://hellobonafide.com/</strong>notbroken</a></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message

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