When puberty rears its hormonal head, being prepared with the proper products can help “the awkward years” feel much less so.
Kids need help figuring it all out. And, given the paltry guidance many parents received a few decades back, many of us do too. “If there’s something about your experience growing up that was horrible or traumatizing for you, you have the ability to make it better for the next generation’s relationship with their changing body,” says Charis Chambers, a Georgia-based gynecologist who goes by @theperioddoctor on Instagram.
We talked with experts, crowdsourced with fellow moms and dads, and drew on our own experience as tween parents. And we’ve landed on some basic yet essential tools to help maturing kids learn to care for themselves as they grow.