Interview with Dr. Bobbi Wegner, author of Raising Feminist Boys

BUB had the pleasure to speak with Dr. Bobbi Wegner about how to teach young kids about sex and consent. She’s the best! Please watch and share your stories of how you told your kids about sex and consent.

Dr. Bobbi Wegner is a clinical psychologist, lecturer at Harvard, author, advisor, writer, speaker, and co-founder of Groops: an online mental wellness platform that brings people together to talk about their real issues with the help of a trained facilitator.

She works with individuals and organizations to promote mental wellness for everyone - everywhere. She believes in the power of the shared human experience. Her expertise is groups.

Dr. Bobbi writes and speaks internationally on modern mental health. She has a column in Psychology Today (Perfectly Imperfect Parenting), is a parenting expert on NBC News Learn, and is on the Today Show parenting team, and has spoken on or written for numerous popular publications including NPR, Harvard Health Blog, The Associated Press, Mind Body Green, and Sunrise (Australia’s No. 1), to name a few. Her book, Raising Feminist Boys: How to Talk to Your Child about Gender, Consent, and Empathy, published in June 2021 with New Harbinger. She has given three TEDx talks on the subject.

Given her interest in mental health, access, innovation, and entrepreneurship, Dr. Bobbi teaches Advocacy at Harvard Graduate School of Education and Motivation, and Groups & Culture at Harvard Extension School in the Industrial Organizational Psychology Program.

She is committed to furthering mental health access on the board of directors for USA for IOM (The UN Migration Agency) and the board of advisors for Ignite Mental Health, out of Harvard Innovation Lab. She is also a medical writer and reviewer for Buoy Health, a Harvard-Innovation Lab digital health company.

She also has three spicy kids and much of learning is done at home, outside of Boston.