250: The Anxious Generation Review (Part 4): Should we ban cell phones at home?
21 Jul 2025
35m
Jen Lumanlan · Lifestyle
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!
Episodes
249: The Anxious Generation Review (Part 3): Should we ban cell phones in school?
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48m
248: The Anxious Generation Review (Part 2): Does Social Media Actually Cause Kids’ Depression and Anxiety?
07 Jul 2025
57m
247: The Anxious Generation Review (Part 1): Is There Really a Mental Health Crisis in the U.S.?
30 Jun 2025
1h 2m
246: My Parenting Feels Off Track: Reparenting Helps You Find Your Way Back
26 May 2025
47m
RE-RELEASE: Finding Your Parenting Village: How Community Support Changes Everything at Home
19 May 2025
51m
245: Does praise help or hurt your child? What research actually shows
12 May 2025
1h 2m
RE-RELEASE: How to get your child to listen to you
05 May 2025
50m
AI processedAddressing the common parenting struggle of children not listening requires shifting from control-based compliance to needs-based problem-solving. Compliance-focused parenting often backfires, creating power struggles or long-term emotional detachment. Identifying the underlying needs of both parent and child—rather th...
244: Gentle parenting doesn’t have to mean permissive parenting
28 Apr 2025
51m
AI processedGentle and respectful parenting does not inherently equate to permissiveness, as the two concepts are distinct. The common "four parenting styles" framework, developed by Diana Baumrind, relies on a narrow, outdated study that conflates control with effective parenting and ignores the validity of harmonious approaches....
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241: Validating children’s feelings: Why it’s important, and how to do it with Dr. Caroline Fleck
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240: How to prepare your kids for the real world
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239: First year for your newborn baby: The 7 ideas that really matter
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238: Feeling exhausted and overwhelmed? Tools to help you cope
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237: 8 reasons your child won’t tell you what’s wrong – and how to help
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236: How to heal the anger in your relationship with your spouse
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235: Children’s threats: What they mean and how to respond
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234: The problem with Time Outs: Why they fail, and what to do Instead
20 Jan 2025
35m
233: Time Outs: Helpful or harmful? Here’s what the research says
13 Jan 2025
58m
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