EP. 6 | Navigating Hard Talks on Gender and Race at Home w/ Melinda Wenner Moyer

"Small actions like these can have a big impact in showing our kids that gender is more complex than the binary idea society often promotes. It’s not a fixed concept dictating behavior, interests, or roles—it's much more fluid" .- Melinda Wenner Moyer

Today on Within:

• Learning how to be more cognizant about gender stereotypes as parents.
• How to model an equal parenting home?
• Talking to our kids about race.
• Tips for opening the sex conversation with your children.
• Making our daughters aware that they are growing up in a “good girl” society.
• Talking about accountability in front of our kids.

Melinda Wenner Moyer

Melinda Wenner Moyer is a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Times.

She writes the popular science-based parenting Substack Is My Kid the Asshole? Her first book, How To Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes, won a gold medal in the 2022 Living Now Book Awards. Her second book, Hello Cruel World!: Science-Based Strategies for Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times, will be published in May 2025 and is available for pre-order.

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