Stories of rebellion and rule breaking prompt discussions.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 10+?
Any Positive Content?
Sex, Romance & Nudity
a little
The episode "Don't Go On That Website" follows a young man who begins looking at pornography in the hopes of finding information to help him deal with shame he's feeling about his body. The experience leads him to recognize his queerness and is his first exposure to other members of the LGBTQ+ community. The show uses the words "adult images", "adult content", and "pictures of naked adults, pictures of naked adults together" to describe pornography. No graphic descriptions included.
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The show promotes thoughtful reflection about listeners' personal values. It doesn't suggest whether the behavior of the rule breakers is positive or negative, but encourages listeners to make up their own minds and think critically. Promotes making mistakes and learning from them with integrity.
Diverse Representations
a lot
This show is a standout when it comes to diversity. Featured kids come from a wide variety of racial and cultural backgrounds. People with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community are also featured. Differences are treated respectfully.
Some of the featured stories follow kids who are protesting injustice, others engage in more impulsive or emotional rule breaking. The show is mostly a discussion of what leads kids to rebellious behavior and the consequences of their actions. Guests promote integrity as they tell their stories and what they learned.
Educational Value
a little
The show is a fabulous tool for parents and educators to use as a jumping off point for deep and nuanced conversations with tweens about ethics and their own personal values system. As solo listening, kids may not always come away with the conclusions parents desire.
Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Ooh You're In Trouble is a thoughtful social-emotional learning podcast for the tweens and teens that features stories of rebellion and rule breaking -- many of which will be relatable to kids and their parents. It's a great show for kids entering double digits and beggining to think about who they are and what they believe apart from their parents. This podcast is aimed at 9-13 year olds and intentionally starts conversations about rebellion, trickery, and all the shades of rule-breaking in between. The show is never judgmental toward the person telling their rule-breaking story, even as they make questionable choices. The stories told capture their main characters at moments of reckless or even immoral behavior, but that is the show's point, to open an honest conversation about making mistakes, navigating tricky situations, and standing up when you don't agree. Integrity and honesty are overarching themes throughout each episode. Some episodes feature content warnings in the episode description. Notably, "Don't Go On That Website" features the story of a young man exploring pornography at age 11. No explicit language is used and the content is described in clear, non-specific terminology: "adult images," "adult content," "pictures of naked adults," and "pictures of naked adults together." Parents who review the episode descriptions can get a good idea of the content covered. This is a great podcast for tweens and teens to listen to with parents and can spark some insightful discussions.
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What’s It About?
OOH YOU'RE IN TROUBLE follows a single young person each episode as they reflect on a time they rebelled and broke the rules. Narrated by LV, short for Little Voice, and a smattering of side characters offering comic relief, we get to hear the story told by the person who lived it. After the featured young person finishes laying out why they did what they did, LV encourages listeners to journal or talk with a friend about what they've heard. Stories follow all kinds of rebellious behavior, from the kindergartener with cerebral palsy who tricked her teachers into thinking she couldn't talk for two years, to the middle schooler who snuck a boy into her house for a forbidden kiss, to the Carlotta Walls LeNier, member of the Little Rock Nine, who famously desegregated a high school in Arkansas in the face of violence and bigotry. Each story is either a lesson in rebelling for change and justice or a safe place to learn about the typical mistakes tweens and teens make as they navigate growing up.
From TRAX by PRX, the creators of Timestorm and Cultureverse, this podcast offers refreshingly honest conversations about kids' relationships to rules, rebellion, and risk-taking. In Ooh You're In Trouble, the company's signature surefooted storytelling brings together polished sound design, a diverse cast of characters, and a large dose of humor. In the messy social-emotional world of tweens and teens, where no one is sure who they are and all the rules are up for debate, this show dives into complex stories and asks questions kids commonly grapple with in adolescence. The result is a compelling podcast that will have young people and their grownups having meaningful discussions long after the episode is over.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the prompt questions included in each episode of Ooh You're In Trouble. Do you think it was okay to break the rules in the way the main character did?
Have you ever broken the rules? How do you feel about it now? What did you learn from it?
Activity: Parents, share with your tween or teen a time when you broke the rules. Why did you? Were there consequences? Would you do it again?
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