# This Is So Awkward by MD Cara Natterson (Paperback)

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The ultimate guide for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty.**  
  
**“An accessible, enjoyable, and detailed road map for addressing even the most delicate topics with confidence and compassion.”—Lisa Damour, PhD, author of _Untangled_, _Under Pressure_, and _The Emotional Lives of Teenagers_**  
  
Almost everything about puberty has changed since today’s adults went through it. It starts, on average, two years earlier and stretches through high school . . . and for some, beyond. Gens Z and Alpha are also contending with a whole host of thorny issues that parents didn’t experience in their own youth but nonetheless need to understand: everything from social media and easy-access pornography to gender identities and new or newly-potent drugs. Talking about any of this is like puberty itself: Awkward! But it’s also critical for the health, happiness, and safety of today’s kids.  
  
Bewildered adults have begged for reliable and relatable information about the modern adolescent experience. _This Is So Awkward_ answers their call. Written by a pediatrician and a puberty educator—together the hosts of a lively and popular podcast on puberty, and moms to six teens between them—this is the handbook everyone has been searching for, and includes:  
  
• Pointed advice about how to talk to kids about almost anything: acne, body odor, growth spurts, eating disorders, mood swings, sexuality, and more.  
• Science-based explanations for all of puberty’s physical, emotional, and social changes, including the many ways hormones affect kids both above and below the neck.  
• What adults needs to know about today’s teen culture: their mental health drivers, the un-gendering of body image issues, the ways they think about sexual orientation, and more.   
• Invaluable commentary straight from young adults just out the other side of adolescence that highlights what they wish the adults in their lives had known or done differently.  
  
Eye-opening and reassuring, _This Is So Awkward_ will help adults understand the turbulent pubescent decade and become confident guides for today’s kids.

## Details

- **Price:** 15.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Random House
- **Type:** Self Help
- **Tags:** All Books, Self Help

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