Title: The Moth Podcast

Date: 2014

Media type: Podcast

Format: Complete

TV Season-Episode: “The Conversation”

September 30, 2014

Category: Parenting, Human Sexuality, Human Growth and Development

Keywords: middle childhood, communication

Rating: N/A

Audience(s): College Age, Adults, Parents

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A mother describes the initial shock of having “the conversation” about sex with her 8 year old daughter. She desribes her own experience of the conversation with her mother when she was younger and her hasitation to have it with her daughter when she started asking questions. She realized though that unlike the conversation she had with her mother in which the information was piled on all at once, this was a topic better spread out over several conversations because what is important is not a single discussion, but rather the on going conversation.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How was the story teller’s experience of “the conversation” with her mother different than the one she wanted to have with her daughter? What are some of the outcomes for both mother and daughter of having an ongoing conversation about sex rather than one single conversation that is jam packed with information?

Contributor: Carly Baumann