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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
Here at NPR, we are very serious, and thus, my friends, education correspondent Corey Turner and former NPR education correspondent Anya Kamenets would like to play a very serious game with you.
Penis, penis, penis, penis, penis, penis, penis peee Ness.
Okay, so for real, though, this is very serious business because getting comfortable with words like penis is crucial if you're a parent trying to explain sex and consent to your kids.
On this episode of Life Kit, the birds and the bees like you've never heard them before.
Anya and Corey are going to teach you how to have conversations about anatomy and sex, specifically with younger kids, because whether you bring this up or not, they're going to have questions about their bodies and about where they came from.
Rickwood Field is the oldest baseball field in the US.
It's also where comedian Roy Wood Junior spent a lot of time growing up.
Racism was around, but his baseball field somehow was a separate oasis from all of that for blacks and whites.
Baseball, Birmingham and racing America on the latest episode of the Sunday Story from NPR's up first podcast.
In this episode, the Birds and the bees for a new decade.
And we should say we're gonna deal here with the younger kids.
Say, birth to the doorstep of puberty.
Yeah.
Cause once the pubic hair and the body odors start to kick in, you're gonna need a whole nother life kit.