Eps 495: Showing up for our LGBTQIA+ kids with Ed Center and Jaimie Kelton
Episode 495
My guests today are Ed Center and Jaimie Kelton, and they’re answering questions from YOU! This is a juicy one – we get into how to react when your LGBTQIA+ teen comes out, whose news that is to share with others, and what to do when people who don’t treat our adolescent(s) the way we’d like (cue Mama Bear). The latter half of the episode gets into online safety & pornography, the importance of knowing queer role models in real life, using TV & books as teaching tools, and talking about sex with our queer kids.
Guest Description
Listeners will remember Ed from Earlier this year, episode 451 – from power struggles to connection – he was a kid with big feelings and impulsive behaviors. He drove his parents and teachers bonkers. Now he helps grown-ups understand and support these kids. Ed is a queer brown dad who coaches parents, educators, and kid-raisers toward greater connection, calm, and joy. He focuses on the needs of families of color, helping people to tap into cultural wisdom while interrupting intergenerational pain.
Jaimie Kelton is an award-winning podcast host and author. She is co-author of the book based on her podcast, If These Ovaries Could Talk, The Thing’s We’ve Learned About Making an LGBTQ Family. She is a Helen Hayes and SOVAS Award winner whose voice can be heard as Bo Peep in Syfy Network’s, Happy!, as well as on many hit cartoons. She lives with her wife and children in Manhattan.
Jaimie and Ed often collaborate on her IG and podcast: the queer family podcast. Jaime and Ed are here today to talk about some of the questions that YOU wrote in with, in celebration of PRIDE month.