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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff Mom never told you?

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Speaker 1: From housetop works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Kristen and I'm Caroline. And Caroline neither you nor

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Speaker 1: I our parents. But there was one time that I

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Speaker 1: was on the verge at least I was worried that

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Speaker 1: I was on the verge of having to give at

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Speaker 1: least part of the talk to a child. How did

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Speaker 1: you find yourself in this situation? Well, it was all

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Speaker 1: um all due to an episode of Fear Factor, which

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Speaker 1: I was watching with my young nephews and niece, and uh,

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Speaker 1: they had an eating challenge and the contestant in question

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Speaker 1: had to eat a plate of reindeer testicles. And the

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Speaker 1: host is describing this reindeer testicle challenge, and my sweet

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Speaker 1: well meaning nephew turns to me and says, Aunt Kristen,

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Speaker 1: what are testicles? And as I looked around the room

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Speaker 1: and turned bright red. I'm sure yes, I turned bright red,

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Speaker 1: looking around the room searching for how to say this.

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Speaker 1: I was on the verge of saying, ask your mom

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Speaker 1: when she gets home. When my my oldest nephew. His

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Speaker 1: older brother pipes right in and very nonchalantly goes, well,

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Speaker 1: those are your balls, and the conversation was over. My

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Speaker 1: younger nephew was like, oh, you were saved. I was

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Speaker 1: saved from having to explain what testicles do. But something

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Speaker 1: to a preview though, if we are ever find ourselves

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Speaker 1: with children of what is coming down the line. Because

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Speaker 1: this question of when to have the talk about sex

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Speaker 1: and anatomy with kids comes directly from a listener who

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Speaker 1: was in a quandary about when to talk to her daughter,

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Speaker 1: what to talk about, how honest to be, how to

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Speaker 1: frame sex. So I figured, well, the best thing that

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Speaker 1: we can do is research it right and kind of

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Speaker 1: help parents give them the little nudge that they need

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Speaker 1: it my oldest nephew we have any anatomical questions, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he can be our other source. Um. But a lot

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Speaker 1: of these studies that we looked at about having the

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Speaker 1: parents aren't having them early enough, and they're not necessarily

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Speaker 1: covering all the bases, so to speak. Yes, in two

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Speaker 1: thousand nine, there was a widely publicized study that was

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Speaker 1: parents have with their kids focused on girls bodies, menstruation,

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Speaker 1: All of this is information that could have been pretty

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