Dr. Melisa Holmes is an OBGYN, an author and a health educator. She is also the co-founder and CEO of Girlology, which is a platform designed to provide girls and their caregivers with health resources to support them through puberty and adolescence. In this conversation, Dr. Holmes explains how to talk to your kids—both boys, girls, and gender-nonconforming children—about reproductive health and sex from early childhood into their teen years so they can navigate puberty with confidence.

Dr. Holmes and Girlology are offering a 10 part-class on the Motherly website that you can sign up for now at classes.mother.ly and podcast listeners can get 20% of the class with the discount code “Podcast20.”