Episodios

  • How can parents and educators support LGBTQ+ youth?

    How can parents and educators support LGBTQ+ youth?
    Jul 3 2024

    On today's show, Becca dives into a lively conversation with Dr. Lulu, aka The Momatrician, about how parents and educators who care about LGBTQ+ youth can best support them. Listen to learn about how Dr. Lulu learned from her own mistakes as the parent of a trans child, why it's important to understand the difference between gender identity, gender expression, and genitalia, and even why we should scrub the phrase "committed suicide" from our lexicon. While the language in this episode is clean, this may not be the right episode to listen to with kids by your side since Dr. Lulu does allude to the painful and avoidable deaths of Nex Benedict and Matthew Shepard. However, overall this episode is filled with hope, laughter, and some great tips; it will lift you up and help you see why it's much simpler to be a good ally to queer youth than you might think.


    Check out Dr Lulu's podcast, Moms4TransKids, visit her website at dr-lulu.com, and follow her on instagram @themomatrician.


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    45 m
  • How do you find your people?

    How do you find your people?
    Jun 26 2024
    This episode jumps into a question raised by a young person looking for ideas on finding their people, especially in college. Grace, Becca, and Jess discuss why that first year of college can be an especially tricky time to find a real sense of belonging, why it's worthwhile, and some strategies Grace stumbled into in her subsequent years of college that helped her find friends she really connected with. Though this episode focuses on that first year of college, the feelings and ideas relate to high school (we talk about one of the stories shared by an interviewee in the book that gets into the high school experience of thinking you'd found your people only to discover you hadn't) and the workplace as well. Hope you enjoy it, and feel free to be the next one to submit a different kind of question for us to think through in a future episode on our website, canyouhelpmegivea.com

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    26 m
  • How can adults help support positive peer relationships?

    How can adults help support positive peer relationships?
    Jun 19 2024

    As kids approach and enter adolescence, it becomes more challenging for educators and parents to know what they can do to support young people in engaging in kind and supportive ways with each other. In this episode, we share stories from inside and outside the school building about the difficult experiences young people have experienced in not belonging and how adults can support belonging without accidentally taking away your kid's autonomy.


    Also, as a quick note, this is one of the first episodes we ever recorded, though we're posting it later in our season, so please forgive our noob podcaster vibe in this one!


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    29 m
  • How can I stop being my kids' frontal lobe?

    How can I stop being my kids' frontal lobe?
    Jun 12 2024
    In today's episode, we answer a question from a parent who realized they might accidentally be preventing their kid's executive functioning from developing more fully because they were operating as their child's frontal lobe without even realizing it. Our in-house EF expert, Liz Daly, chimes in with some pro tips on how to scaffold toward goal-setting, planning, and execution skills; Becca talks about "moving the magnets" (it'll make sense as both a literal and metaphorical strategy once you listen!), and Grace chimes in with how she has lately been reflecting on how much of her goal-setting and pursuit has been her idea vs things she just unconsciously carried forward from her parents' dreams. If you've ever felt like your middle- or high-school student is just never going to figure out how to plan anything and wondered whether you might accidentally be contributing to that, this one is for you!

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    36 m
  • How can adults support authentic student voice?

    How can adults support authentic student voice?
    Jun 5 2024
    On today's episode, we answer a question submitted by a listener about student voice: what is it really, and how can adults support it? To help us dig into this topic, we invited Connor Flick, current undergrad student and longstanding member of the Kentucky Student Voice Team, to share examples and stories of what tokenized vs authentic student voice look like, what is possible to accomplish with real student voice, and practical steps on how to get there. This episode is a bit longer than most, but it's worth it--Connor saves some of his best tips for the end.

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    38 m
  • Why does multitasking slow down learning?

    Why does multitasking slow down learning?
    May 29 2024
    In today's episode, Liz gives us the skinny on what multitasking is (and isn't--hint, it's not when you're doing dishes and also listening to music) and why it can both feel so tempting and is so destructive to our ability to learn efficiently. Becca, Jess, and Liz all share stories from their own experience plus those of students and parents they know, as well as helpful and simple tips on how to switch to getting more mono-tasking in your life so you can get on to the good stuff faster.

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    32 m
  • What do college students wish they'd known in high school?

    What do college students wish they'd known in high school?
    May 22 2024
    In this episode of Can You Help Me Give a Sh*t: the podcast we tackle a question that high schoolers (and their parents and teachers) wish they'd thought of before getting to college: what do college students wish they'd known in high school? We suspect this will be first in a series of conversations with different young people, but in this episode Grace, co-author of the book, gives her "hot take" on why a gap year between high school and college is undervalued by high-acheivers, and why, as a worn-down high-acheiver herself, she wishes it wasn't.

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    34 m
  • Why are some teens unmotivated in school?

    Why are some teens unmotivated in school?
    May 17 2024
    In this episode, Becca dives deep into the questions she was seeking to answer with the research behind the book Can You Help Me Give a Sh*t? Unlocking Teen Motivation in School and Life, and the ways that listening to young people from around the county surprised, inspired, and changed the ways she approaches her own kids' education.

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    25 m