Teaching Girls About Their Bodies

As a teenage girl in high school, it breaks my heart to hear how much our appearances are topics of conversation.

So the dreaded letter from school arrives in the mail.  It is a warning you that your child will soon be learning about puberty in school.   What will the letter say?  ? The girls and boys will be separated to learn [...]

Creating Turning Teen has been an eye opening experience in so many ways. One of the most interesting things to see is how people have such vastly differing views about what is “right” in terms of introducing tough topics like [...]

  Actual (verbatim) conversation between me (Dr. Lisa) and my 10 year old. So mom, you have only had sex twice, right? Why do you want to know that? Well, you only have two kids.  So that means you have [...]

Rachel admits she was a bit embarrassed to come to a Turning Teen workshop....but watch this short clip to see how she felt afterwards about the program :)  

Hailey, Age 9 , tells her mom why she likes Turning Teen :)

Metro Parent Magazine Features Turning Teen Helping Moms and Daughters Talk about Puberty :) Looking forward to having new girls at our workshops thanks to the help of Metro Parent spreading the word! http://www.metroparent.com/metro-parent-magazine/m-parenting/m-tweens-teens/turning-teen-program-helps-moms-daughters-talk-puberty/

Thank you to WDIV Channel 4 Detroit and Paula Tutman for featuring Turning Teen!  We had a blast! And love spreading the word that we are here to help moms help their daughters!!!!  http://www.clickondetroit.com/lifestyle/program-helps-moms-daughters-who-have-puberty-questions   What a fabulous group [...]

My winter break vacation was one long Turning Teen workshop. Fortunately I didn’t mind since I love talking to other parents about the complicated life of pubertal tweens. There were about twenty families at this family resort, all with [...]

Turning Teen has officially been in business just over one month, and the response has been overwhelming.  Dr. Lisa and I set out on this journey nine months ago, and have truly enjoyed sharing our “passion for puberty”.  We discussed, [...]