Let’s teach them how to write a love story they don’t have to recover from.

Puberty education has historically been obsessed with mechanics . We teach kids about periods, voice cracks, and wet dreams. But we spend almost no time teaching them about the screenplay of adolescence.

Current sex ed asks: “What is consent?” But puberty ed for relationships must ask: “Why does my chest hurt when they don’t text back?”

We all remember “The Talk.” For many of us, it was a slideshow of fallopian tubes, a nervously handed-out pamphlet about deodorant, or a VHS tape from 1987 featuring awkwardly animated sperm cells.

They need a vocabulary for that.

As a new generation enters puberty (usually earlier than we did), we have a critical blind spot. We are teaching kids what happens to their bodies , but we aren't teaching them what to do with their hearts .

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