How to Talk to Kids About Hard Things: Sonya Renee Taylor

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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386. How to Talk to Kids About Hard Things: Sonya Renee Taylor Sonya Renee Taylor returns to help us talk to kids about hard things like climate change, racial injustice, and sex. -The three rules to keep in mind when talking to kids about sex or any complex topic -Why sharing reality with your kids protects their self-esteem long-term -How to buy yourself some time when your kid asks you a tough question -The best way to become a reliable narrator and guide for your child Sonya Renee Taylor is one of many hands currently called to midwife the new world. She is a guide, poet, storyteller, vision holder, intuitive astrologer, and evangelist of radical love. She is the author of seven books including the New York Times bestseller The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love and her most recent offering for young readers The Book of Radical Answers. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.8	Sign up. Sonia Renee Taylor is one of many hands currently called to midwife the New World.
0:53.5	She is a guide, poet, storyteller, vision holder, intuitive astrologer, and evangelist of radical love.
0:55.6	She is the author of seven books,
1:00.5	including the New York Times bestseller, The Body Is Not an Apology, The Power of Radical Self-Love, and her most recent offering for young readers is the book of radical answers. Today,
1:06.7	we are learning from Sonia how to talk to our kids about the hard stuff.
1:12.6	Money, sex, the planet, the things that we want so hard to get right with our kids that we often freeze up and don't try at all.
1:21.9	Sonia's going to help us try.
1:24.4	This conversation is so important, not just for parents or anyone who has a kid in their
1:28.0	life, but just for any adult who's trying to get any clarity around these incredibly
1:33.1	nuanced but important human issues. Let's go. How are you? Are you in L.A.? Yes.
1:42.1	Yeah. So we, Sanya, are right outside of L.A. It's a beach town that's 15 miles outside of where everything's happening. So we are both in it and out of it. We have people staying with us. We are feeling it and seeing it in the sky. We don't know anyone who hasn't been evacuated.
2:04.2	Yeah. And also we're safe. It's a very confusing time. And this morning we're talking about how
2:12.2	sometimes it just feels like the universe is just like really hooking us up. I can't believe we're
2:17.2	talking to you today. This is just, we'reoking us up. I can't believe we're talking to you today.
2:18.2	This is just, we're in it now. We're in the climate crisis, the Armageddon, the apocalypse
2:26.4	situations that we have been warned we would be in. You know, that idea that you will see climate
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