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Today we’re talking about vaping or juuling or any other kind of substances that we need to be aware of with our kids. We have two guests in the studio with us today. We have Holly Bristol and Kim Nichols. Thanks for being here, guys. They help us run our high school and college division. They have older kids. They are our heads up mamas. They tell us what’s happening ahead of like middle school. Like I’m in middle school, y’all are in high school. Y’all are my good heads up mamas here we are here, we are prepared.
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Well, they also rewind for us a little bit and they say hey, you with the three-year-olds come be. Okay, you’re going to survive. We are so glad you guys are here because you can give us some insight into what all this is, because it’s kind of the rage right now, so lay it out ladies.
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Okay, well, let’s do a little bit of background on what vaping is. Okay, yes, vaping appeared, oh, I would say probably a good oh close to a decade ago, not quite. It was a really nice, really healthy way of people who were trying to step down from cigarette smoking and cigar smoking et cetera, to sort of step down with their use of nicotine. They would use these things called a vape and it was based kind of on a hookah pipe, which is more water-based, something like that, and so they became more popular and then they realized they could add stuff to it and more nicotine or more flavors and things like that. And I would say probably three or four years ago it became this thing with college age kids and, of course, has trickled down to high school and then on to it, starting in middle school. We’re starting to see it right, mandy, you’re starting to see it in middle school.
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I mean, she started asking me about it in sixth grade. She didn’t really know anybody doing it in sixth grade but she heard about vaping and now by eighth grade she knows people. I mean it’s very common now.
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Well, I mean, you drive down the street in any metropolitan area, you’re going to see a little smoke shop or a vape shop or things. They’re everywhere, truly. I mean, I know, within a mile of my house and I live in a pretty normal suburban neighborhood, there’s probably five and they have cute little names and their storefronts are nice and clean and neat. But they’re there.
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So let’s talk about, like e-cigarettes, vaping, juuling all these words are describing the same thing, the same thing. We’re talking about the same thing here. The Juul is one of the largest manufacturers, and so you can go to their website it’s JuulLabscom. But it’s one of the largest manufacturers of this kind of device and I think what makes it so kind of it can be secretive is because it’s a very small device. It’s a very small device.
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It’s also spelled J-U-U-L. Yes, thank you for saying that so if you hear that from your kids and you’re looking for it online or maybe on a search on your computer or something. That’s how it’s spelled and it is. Yeah. A lot of times it can look like a jump drive, a flash drive.
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Like a little USB and it plugs into your computer to actually charge it. Right, you can actually charge them. That’s what I understand. We don’t have them in our homes.
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We do not, we do not, but that’s what makes them so easy to hide too. Yeah, they can hide it in the cap of a Sharpie marker. They can take it to school. They can hide it from parents it’s super easy to hide and teachers.
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Yeah Well, sometimes the teachers look at us. They’ll use them in class because the teachers don’t realize what it is.
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They can put that up to their mouth and there’s no smoke inhaling there or coming out like a typical cigarette, I know, I mean, I think that there often is.
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But they can hide it. They can hide it better, they can hide it.
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And the problem where they wait until teachers not looking because I know my daughter said oh yeah, this guy just vaped all over me in class, yeah, Like things. The teacher was turning the other way or had walked out of the room, so it’s real quick and easy to hide.
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And so what my daughter has said too now is they come in different colors. They come in different like Holly was saying different flavors. So you can have, you know, your mint infused nicotine with your purple jewel, and it’s almost become like an accessory. It’s like cappuccino, mm-hmm. Yeah, kind of like the phones and the phone cases. It’s another little accessory that kids are picking up on.
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One of the problems that we see is with vaping is it’s come and it’s for some kids. It’s kind of is not particularly the kids that we know. It’s not as maybe trendy as it was a year ago.
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Or even the beginning of the school year it’s tapered off a bit.
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So this is high school, though this is high school, but you know, things trickle down and things move around, two different areas the geographical and it depends on your geographic area whether it’s popular or not.
One thing to be very aware of with the jewel, though, is it’s way more nicotine than even a regular cigarette. That is the danger of that right there is, and also, kids don’t realize that they’re getting nicotine, so therefore they are getting addicted to nicotine because, you know, for years kids were told oh, don’t smoke. These kids don’t want to smoke, they don’t. They think cigarettes are gross. Yeah they find them. No, no, not cigarettes. But this is like oh, but it’s fine, it’s not addictive.
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Well, that’s why it is addictive. I’m so glad you said that. That’s why it’s so important. Even if you don’t think that your kid is using these, you need to have that conversation with them Right and tell them what it is. On the canvas where my husband works, he was saying the kids had no idea there was nicotine in it.
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They were like what it’s just strawberry.
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It’s just a cool thing it makes hook.
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I’m a dragon, it’s just a cool little trendy device. They don’t realize it’s illegal too.
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It’s illegal for.
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Underage yes, to have this device and use it and they can get an 18 year old friend very easily to go buy it. Absolutely, we saw a sign.
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the other day we went to go get a red box and a gas station Huge sign in the window and my son goes well, that looks fun because the way it was marketed it was a picture of the jewel and it was bright colored and it had like flowers and it looked like this fun toy and he was thinking it was a USB thing and I said no, so I was telling him what it was about.
But the marketing is very much geared towards now getting younger, I believe absolutely they say it’s not, but if you look at it it’s very obvious that it is the historical, the ability of the tobacco companies Mm-hmm to market well goes back Literally 50 years.
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Yes, yes, they’re brilliant at it, they do a fantastic job and they are on this, on this, because they’re there. Literally their stocks and there has just gone has plummeted. Yeah, with this generation, it’s like oh well, here we go, yeah.
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I’ve got to figure out.
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Absolutely. And but you do have to be careful with those jewels because I mean and both of our girls know girls, this is not. You know Super wealthy kids, super poor. This is the everybody.
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Yes, girls and boys not discriminated girls, boys, everyone it’s.
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They all know someone who has. But the problem is with that nicotine count being so high that it can make them very sick very quickly and it’s highly addictive.
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Like you said, you’re starting a habit that’s gonna be hard to break and that’s the conversation that you need to have with your kids about letting them understand the amount of nicotine that’s in there and what that does. And when we are now with vaping and jewels is where Everyone was back in the what are? Days when everyone in the movies was smoking and it was the new cool.
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It wasn’t a taboo. You know it was. It was okay to smoke in high school.
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Everyone knew what really the causes of all that nicotine was so our kids find that really disgusting.
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They find that because they’ve been taught that, yes, forever. The nicotine is gross and this is what smoking will do to your lungs. But it’s not. It tastes like strawberry.
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Oh my god, that’s so amazing. Well, I love the fact that Kim doesn’t back away from these issues when her son sees it, and even though he’s what second grade, you’re still having that conversation and giving him the information. Well, we don’t really have a choice. I feel like, yeah, we’re in this, it’s how you protect them.
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This is how we protect them, and you know they’re asking questions, and I mean that’s the whole premise of what we do here at nextTalk is, if we’re not giving them the answers, they’re going to find them elsewhere.
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So a good chance.
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It’s wrong and they’re good chance, it’s wrong. So age-appropriate answers and conversations are just vital to being able to create that connection with your kiddo, even if it’s on the subjects you don’t want to touch. But you gotta do it.
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So let’s dive into that a little bit more, about these specific conversations, because you’ve kind of touched on it from your younger perspective. You’re just very honest with them. I know we also did a show on addiction where we talked about talking to kids early about just having healthy habits and using little examples in your own life. You know your struggle with caffeine or whatever. You know these little things that are not overwhelming to your little kids. But it creates a conversation about creating healthy habits, making it relatable.
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This is exactly how we talked about the jewel was. They already know from a young age about cigarettes because it’s a visible thing that they see, and we’ve talked about the health concerns and why you don’t do it. So they think it’s gross, like your kids do.
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It’s ingrained in this generation that smoking is not okay.
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So that was an easy way to relate it when we talked about the jewel. This is a different version of a cigarette.
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It’s a pretty version.
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It is and it seems cool because it’s strawberry or it’s whatever.
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Well, another thing that we have seen and we have talked about a lot between ourselves is this word that you’re going to be hearing more and more of as edibles yes, when I we were talking about vaping and one of my daughters said, oh, hardly anybody vapes anymore in her circle of and she’s older in high school and back in the fall she was, like everybody, vapes.
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So the conversation has changed very much from fall to spring In nine months. So I just said so what do high school parents need to watch out for now? And she said edibles, Edibles Without even blinking.
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Okay, so explain what edibles are to it. I mean, is that pretty just? It’s edible drugs.
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It’s tell us what that Candy that usually has marijuana in it, okay, and gummy bears, she said. Rope candy, yep, even like pebble cereal bars. So things that a teacher or parent would just think oh, they’re just bringing it to class. They’re eating gummy bears, or they’re eating candy or a cereal bar and it has marijuana in it. So the thing to talk about with your kids one is not ever taking candy or things like that from other kids that’s not individually wrapped.
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That they don’t trust and it’s not coming from their house.
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Okay, don’t even think about the trust Individually wrapped, because it could be someone that they completely trust who thinks oh, we’re just gonna have. You know, they don’t understand that digesting when you ingest marijuana, it’s very different than smoking it. Than smoking it and it can be a lot more powerful and lasts for a lot longer period of time.
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So they need to understand all of that and what edibles are, and this is trickle down from college completely without questions, and so see, in middle school we haven’t gotten to edibles yet.
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But it’s gonna trickle down.
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So middle school parents.
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this is a heads up for you. This is the value of having a heads up. Mama, I haven’t had this, Just go ahead and have this conversation. Yeah go ahead and have it and say it fits into this juuling category, this healthy habits, this addiction. We wanna prevent something before it becomes a habit, before you get addicted, before your body craves it, and so they already know about it.
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So when they hear it for the first time in middle school or in early high school, they already know about it. It takes that.
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It’s not a big deal, it’s like oh, they’re not seen as naive. Yeah, they’re not seen as naive and our girls will, I mean they will tell you all day long that’s one of the biggest things. It’s not the peer pressure, it’s not appearing naive.
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Yeah.
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Being in the know. Being in the know.
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And the other thing is it gives you validity as a parent Absolutely, and that has helped me a lot with you guys. You’ve said this is gonna start happening and I’ll say I’ll have this conversation with my daughter and she’s like that’s not happening yet. Well then, six months, a year later, she comes home. It’s happening, mom, you’re so cool, it’s happening. You were right?
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Well, it’s just not even just being cool, but just knowing it, knowing it, oh, you’re aware, you’re aware.
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You’re aware and I’m gonna try to speak more. I know.
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I’m gonna talk to you more because, oh, mom, she does know what’s going on.
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I’m so up to cool.
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Well, and it’s not about being cool, but when they see you in that light, they’re more apt to listen to you. Absolutely, and you get that voice then.
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Well, you know what’s going on and therefore you’re not naive, and that’s a respect thing as well.
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Gives you a little validity in their world. Absolutely.
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And you need some validity in their world, because they’re searching for it.
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We’re here with Holly and Kim today. They help run our high school and college division. They are our heads up mamas. They tell us what’s coming down the pipe. They have been a huge asset to me. I shouldn’t have probably said pipe right.
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That’s on the drug show. You guys kind of looked at me like I don’t think you should have used that word, mandy.
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I want to take a minute. You know we talked a lot about vaping and juuling is another way to say it, or e-cigarettes, all those kind of mean the same thing and we talked about the Juulabs, j-u-u-l, and that is the biggest kind of manufacturer right now of this vaping product. I did go to their website and I just want to throw this out there. I know we talked a lot about their marketing and kind of want to give their perspective and actually I used this as a conversation starter for my middle schooler because when she came home she was like well, vaping’s cool, like everybody’s doing it, it’s like mint and raspberry and like all these cool flavors, almost like candy, just how you guys describe the edible things too. It appeals to them as like a kid flavored thing. And when I told her baby, this is addictive, like this is a product to help people stop smoking, it’s not a product for, like, people who don’t smoke, and she really didn’t believe me. She was like I think you’re wrong, mom, I don’t think you know, cause teenagers.
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Well, they love to challenge you. The healthy doubt is important, but at the same time it can drive you crazy.
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Yes, and so I was just really calm and thought how can I approach this conversation? So I took her to the actual website.
And here’s a quote that I want to read for you guys, cause to me it was a good conversation starter for us in middle school. Now for your high schoolers they may be like, okay, we’re past that, but for middle school this was a really good conversation starter. Here’s what it said on the jewel website. Let me be clear this is a direct quote. Let me be clear we do not want teens or any other non-smokers to ever use our product. I’m not only a jewel employee but, more importantly, I am a parent of teenagers. I never want my 18 year old son or 15 year old daughter to jewel. The product was designed with adult smokers in mind and their need to break the grip of cigarette dependency.
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There you go.
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And so when we read that together, she was like oh, so it wasn’t from me Exactly. And I think that opened up a whole lot of conversation. And then we talked about the healthy habits and creating addictions in our life. And why would you start this when you don’t even have a nicotine addiction and you’re creating a new thing that you’re going to have to break in your life? Why would you even start that? And so tell us what are conversations like with your teenagers, because that’s an example of a middle schooler. I think Kim gave some examples of how to have this conversation with young. Tell us what this looks like as far as in your home, some detail just being available when they want to talk about it and who’s.
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Well, they’re not going to talk about it. I mean, it’s like you know they might throw out, oh my gosh. So and so got caught with one. This happened, that happened. They’re probably not going to have a conversation with you about it. They’ve had a friend who had a little too much nicotine and got very sick and that was troublesome to my kid for a day or two. So and so did that. So that’s more the conversation and it’s just like helping them process, helping her process, but hearing, just hearing her. I don’t need to comment always, she just needs to let me know and you don’t need to overreact when she tells you.
0:16:55 – Speaker 1
It’s, just it’s her life, yeah, yeah, and just asking questions like you can throw out some things that you know, so you do have that validity with them. But I can just ask questions, especially because they like, hey, we’re going to talk about this on the radio. Tell me, you know, and they kind of appreciate that I’m asking them for their advice or what they know about it and they want to share their knowledge. They’re not going to just do it without me saying anything. But if I bring it up or there’s a car in front of us on the way to school and you can see the vape smoke just keeps coming out, she’s like oh yeah, everybody vapes and that’ll start a conversation, but I don’t think they ever come to me. Mom, let’s talk about vaping.
Because, it’s their world and it’s just normal, and they see it every day, so they don’t see any reason to have a conversation about it. But if I bring it up, they’ll share with me.
0:17:47 – Speaker 3
Well, and I think a real simple way if you’ve got a middle schooler or a high schooler and they’re not telling you about vaping or drooling they haven’t mentioned it to you, you know maybe you can just say hey, have you ever heard of this?
0:17:57 – Speaker 4
Or you just, you know, sometimes if they don’t bring something to you, I don’t even touch that, because if it’s not relevant for them to even mention, then it’s just.
0:18:06 – Speaker 1
I’m not going to go and poke that monster and kind of don’t want them looking for something that they don’t need to be trying to find Right Like. My middle schooler has no interest in any of it. His friends aren’t like he’s not surrounded by it yet so he hasn’t had any questions, but he’s very quick to whenever.
0:18:27 – Speaker 3
He’s probably heard sisters talk about it too, right, so he’s heard it yeah.
0:18:31 – Speaker 1
Yeah, but it’s not going on within his little circle of friends or people he knows. So it’s not something. I mean he knows what it is and how it works, and then it’s not good for you.
0:18:42 – Speaker 5
So I think with every age, so much of the conversation stars can start with observation. Yes, you know, when they’re like you said, when there’s someone in the car ahead, whether you have a high schooler or an elementary kid, look at that smoke, oh my gosh. And then the conversation starts. And then, if you, need to inject some information or tell your own story or whatever like, and nothing is really new, I tell my kids that all the time, and that helps create conversation, and I imagine that probably works for you guys too, even with your older kids.
Yes, nothing is new. We had pot brownies or we had whatever it is. They’re just figuring out new packaging and then so when I talk to my kids in that way, it starts this kind of easy conversation. It’s not me drilling them or them getting upset Exactly, and that works at any age. So if you’re with your high schooler or even college student just relating to them, you know, observing what you’re seeing, that can start just a natural conversation. Yeah.
0:19:34 – Speaker 3
Well, and I think the difference, though nothing is new, but I think the power of social media marketing is new, and that’s what we need to be aware of, and I think that’s why these cute little trendy things are trickling down so fast into our middle schoolers. I mean, before I know they trickled down, but I think it was a slower process.
0:19:53 – Speaker 5
A little bit slower.
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yes, Because I know even you, when I had mentioned we were already talking about vaping, you were kind of shocked. In sixth, grade that we were already she was already bringing it to me, and so you know, we have to keep that in mind again. That shift, that power of the social media. But you don’t need to be afraid of it. Like Kim said, it’s nothing new.
0:20:11 – Speaker 4
These are just normal conversations about addiction and drugs and healthy habits and honestly and we have talked to our children about this they know and they will tell you. They know everything that’s going on. They know, they’re very aware. Your children are very, very aware.
0:20:26 – Speaker 3
More than we think oh billions of times.
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Oh, they protect us from a lot.
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They protect us from so much, they know so much and most of it they don’t Think, oh, that’s relevant, Mom doesn’t, dad doesn’t need to know that, it’s just you know they either think we already know because it is so prevalent in their world, or they’re protecting us.
0:20:43 – Speaker 1
Not that they don’t want to tell us about things, but they don’t want to upset us. Yes, your kids will try to protect you because they don’t want to see you upset, they don’t want to see you freak out.
0:20:53 – Speaker 3
They or maybe they think we we’re not going to understand. They’re not going to understand that.
0:20:57 – Speaker 1
Oh yeah.
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Sometimes, sometimes, I mean, there’s so many different things.
0:21:01 – Speaker 4
There’s a lot of things that they do, the reasons that they don’t bring them to us. A lot of times, I mean, I know for us, mine thinks well. You probably already know that. So, but for some kids it is a protecting because it’s like, oh, my mom’s naive or my dad, and they’re going to fly off the handle.
0:21:14 – Speaker 1
That’s why your reaction when they do bring things to your attention, or you do hear that something’s going on and they. Maybe they haven’t talked to you about it, but your calm, mellow reaction is hugely powerful for you in the future.
0:21:26 – Speaker 3
It’s training ground. I mean they are. They are testing you more. They don’t even realize they’re testing you, but they are.
0:21:33 – Speaker 4
It’s they and it happens literally from the time they’re little through the time their young adults is. They will keep doing that. Is that? Is that ground still firm? Is that ground still firm? Is that ground still firm? They need that reassurance in their lives that is just all the way through. Is that ground still firm? And your job as a parent is to make sure. Yes, that ground is still firm.
0:21:55 – Speaker 5
So we’ve talked about vaping, we’ve talked about jewels and edibles any other substance or thing right now that is trendy, that parents need to know about, I mean prescription drugs.
0:22:07 – Speaker 3
that’s a big one.
0:22:08 – Speaker 4
right Opiate, we don’t hear much about that at all.
0:22:12 – Speaker 3
OK, it’s kind of things.
0:22:13 – Speaker 4
If they’re going to be doing those, that’s going to be kept very much on the download, on the DL. If you hear the DL, that’s on the download.
0:22:20 – Speaker 5
And they’re not. Do they still say that on the DL? Yeah, that was popular when I was in that school. Things come back around.
0:22:25 – Speaker 4
I’m telling you nothing’s new, I’m telling you. The DL is kind of just part of the vernacular.
0:22:30 – Speaker 5
I should keep my bell bottoms. We’re not as old as we think. Bell bottoms are messy. Why do I ever give?
0:22:35 – Speaker 4
away clothes, I don’t know.
0:22:37 – Speaker 3
Well, because we grow out of them.
0:22:39 – Speaker 4
Me, I’m saying me, but I think so. I think that those, if they’re going to be doing those things, it’s going to be at a very specific time, at a very specific place, and most of the time it’s on the DL.
0:22:50 – Speaker 5
OK, so those are really jewels and vaping, or the thing and edibles. They’re more out there.
0:22:59 – Speaker 4
That’s more of the large general population.
0:23:01 – Speaker 3
The drugs, the heroin, the cocaine, all that kind of stuff is going to depend by geographical value, geographical location and it’s also going to be, like you said, on the download. Kids aren’t going to advertise that they’re not going to advertise that, and I know, like in middle school, the kids will say hey, you’re going to meet me for some juice today. That’s their way of saying let’s go, let’s go Jew, let’s go Jewel. And so in half the time adults don’t even know what that means.
0:23:26 – Speaker 4
Well, it’s just like you know. Every single generation, every single year, things change constantly. Within the adolescent vernacular, Things are always words, come in and out so quickly and so honestly. I will tell you parents very, very quickly don’t rely on the little clickbait things that you see on social media that says here’s the word. You need to know that kids are using Top 10 most dangerous apps. Those change so fast, so please just know talk to your kids rather than worrying about what a little clickbait thing says on your Facebook.
0:23:58 – Speaker 3
Seriously and more than anything we always stress here. You know, you know your kids more than we know your kids, and each child is different in the level of information they need and the level of conversation. So be in tune and know the temperature of each of your children.
0:24:11 – Speaker 4
Yes, and they’re all different.
0:24:12 – Speaker 3
They’re all different, you know. Some of them will come home and openly tell you about everything they’re hearing and seeing. Some of them will not.
0:24:20 – Speaker 4
And so find your ways to connect Slabby grunts.
0:24:27 – Speaker 1
And an eye roll depends on the moment, depends on the day, depends on the child it’s so true.
0:24:33 – Speaker 5
I like that. It’s like being married. You have to know them. You have to know their mood. You have to know their personality and all those different things. Know your kids. So thank you, guys. We really appreciate you being here and telling us a little bit more about what’s happening and the heads up world.
0:24:50 – Speaker 2
I got a minute.
0:24:51 – Speaker 5
Well, I did have to explain this already, so you know there you go. It’s not always way out of reach, even for us with the little ones.
0:24:58 – Speaker 3
And don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid to tackle these topics. This is just their world, and so be casual about it. Like they said, be calm, don’t overreact. But it’s OK to bring up this topic If you have a high school, or they probably heard of it and so they’ve seen it, I promise you yeah.
0:25:14 – Speaker 4
I don’t care if you’re a public private home school. They’ve seen it, don’t be.
0:25:18 – Speaker 3
Don’t be afraid to bring it up and just ask an open-ended question and don’t whatever they say. Just stay calm.
0:25:24 – Speaker 4
It’s cool, you know you’re cool.
0:25:26 – Speaker 3
Yeah, just stay calm and know their world. Thanks, ladies.
0:25:30 – Speaker 4
Always.
0:25:31 – Speaker 2
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