Your Parenting Mojo - Respectful, research-based parenting ideas to help kids thrive
Parenting is hard…but does it have to be this hard?
Wouldn’t it be better if your kids would stop pressing your buttons quite as often, and if there was a little more of you to go around (with maybe even some left over for yourself)?
On the Your Parenting Mojo podcast, Jen Lumanlan M.S., M.Ed explores academic research on parenting and child development. But she doesn’t just tell you the results of the latest study - she interviews researchers at the top of their fields, and puts current information in the context of the decades of work that have come before it. An average episode reviews ~30 peer-reviewed sources, and analyzes how the research fits into our culture and values - she does all the work, so you don’t have to!
Jen is the author of Parenting Beyond Power: How to Use Connection & Collaboration to Transform Your Family - and the World (Sasquatch/Penguin Random House). The podcast draws on the ideas from the book to give you practical, realistic strategies to get beyond today’s whack-a-mole of issues. Your Parenting Mojo also offers workshops and memberships to give you more support in implementing the ideas you hear on the show.
The single idea that underlies all of the episodes is that our behavior is our best attempt to meet our needs. Your Parenting Mojo will help you to see through the confusing messages your child’s behavior is sending so you can parent with confidence: You’ll go from: “I don’t want to yell at you!” to “I’ve got a plan.”
New episodes are released every other week - there's content for parents who have a baby on the way through kids of middle school age. Start listening now by exploring the rich library of episodes on meltdowns, sibling conflicts, parental burnout, screen time, eating vegetables, communication with your child - and your partner… and much much more!
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Previous Episodes
- 252: From ‘Be the Best’ Anxiety to Trusting Your Child’s Natural Learning 11.08.2025
- 251: Why Your 8-12 Year Old Should Start a Business (And How to Support Them Without Taking Over!) 04.08.2025
- Episode Summary 02: The Anxious Generation: What Parents Need to Know 28.07.2025
- 250: The Anxious Generation Review (Part 4): Should we ban cell phones at home? 21.07.2025
- 249: The Anxious Generation Review (Part 3): Should we ban cell phones in school? 14.07.2025
- 248: The Anxious Generation Review (Part 2): Does Social Media Actually Cause Kids’ Depression and Anxiety? 07.07.2025
- 247: The Anxious Generation Review (Part 1): Is There Really a Mental Health Crisis in the U.S.? 30.06.2025
- 246: My Parenting Feels Off Track: Reparenting Helps You Find Your Way Back 26.05.2025
- RE-RELEASE: Finding Your Parenting Village: How Community Support Changes Everything at Home 19.05.2025
- 245: Does praise help or hurt your child? What research actually shows 12.05.2025
- RE-RELEASE: How to get your child to listen to you 05.05.2025
- 244: Gentle parenting doesn’t have to mean permissive parenting 28.04.2025
- 243: Parent Conflict Over Discipline: How to Get on the Same Page 21.04.2025
- 242: The secret to having feedback conversations your family will actually hear 14.04.2025
- 241: Validating children’s feelings: Why it’s important, and how to do it with Dr. Caroline Fleck 24.03.2025
- 240: How to prepare your kids for the real world 17.03.2025
- 239: First year for your newborn baby: The 7 ideas that really matter 10.03.2025
- 238: Feeling exhausted and overwhelmed? Tools to help you cope 17.02.2025
- 237: 8 reasons your child won’t tell you what’s wrong – and how to help 10.02.2025
- 236: How to heal the anger in your relationship with your spouse 03.02.2025
