Your Parenting Mojo - Respectful, research-based parenting ideas to help kids thrive
263 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 393 ratingsJen Lumanlan always thought infancy would be the hardest part of parenting. Now she has a toddler and finds a whole new set of tools are needed, there are hundreds of books to read, and academic research to uncover that would otherwise never see the light of day. Join her on her journey to get a Masters in Psychology focusing on Child Development, as she researches topics of interest to parents of toddlers and preschoolers from all angles, and suggests tools parents can use to help kids thrive - and make their own lives a bit easier in the process. Like Janet Lansbury's respectful approach to parenting? Appreciate the value of scientific research, but don't have time to read it all? Then you'll love Your Parenting Mojo. More information and references for each show are at www.YourParentingMojo.com. Subscribe there and get a free newsletter compiling relevant research on the weeks I don't publish a podcast episode!
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011: Does your child ever throw tantrums? (Part 1)
November 07, 2016 01:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBSo, does your child ever throw tantrums? Yes? Well, the good news is that you’re not alone. And this isn’t something us Western parents have brought upon ourselves with our strange parenting ways; they’re actually fairly common (although not universal) in other cultures as well. What causes a tantrum? And what can parents do to both prevent tantrums from occurring and cope with them more effectively once they start? Join us today to learn more. http://016: Listening, Growth, and ...
010: Becoming Brilliant – Interview with Prof. Roberta Golinkoff
October 31, 2016 21:36 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBIn just a few years, today’s children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck on the idea that “content is king,” neglecting other skills that 21st century citizens sorely need. Backed by the latest scientific evidence and illustrated with examples of what’s being done right in schools today, http://amzn.to/2Fia4kL (Becoming ...
009: Do you punish your child with rewards?
October 24, 2016 08:40 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBI’ve never said the words “good job” to my toddler. I was lucky – I stumbled on Alfie Kohn’s book http://amzn.to/2FfaULP (Punished by Rewards) early enough that I was able to break the habit before my daughter had really done anything much that might be construed as requiring a “good job.” I’m going to be absolutely transparent here and say that this episode draws very heavily on Alfie Kohn’s book Punished by Rewards, which – along with one of his other books, Unconditional Parenting, are a ...
008: The impact of stress and violence on children
October 17, 2016 07:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBI’m afraid this is an episode I wish I didn’t have to record. When I launched the podcast I asked anyone who has a question about parenting or child development that I might be able to answer by reviewing the scientific literature to reach out and let me know, and someone got in touch to ask about the impact of domestic violence on children. I was a little hesitant to do an episode on it at first because I was hoping that this would be something that wouldn’t really affect the majority of...
007: Help! My toddler won’t eat vegetables
October 10, 2016 07:00 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MB(Believe it or not, this is Carys’ “I freaking love homemade spinach ravioli with broccoli” face!) I was sitting in a restaurant recently with half an eye on a toddler and his parents at the next table. The parents were trying to get the toddler to eat some of his broccoli before he ate the second helping of chicken that he was asking for. All of a sudden a line from Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall” popped into my head: If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you ...
006: Wait, is my toddler racist?
October 03, 2016 07:00 - 24 minutes - 34.8 MBThis episode is part of a series on understanding the intersection of race, privilege, and parenting. https://yourparentingmojo.com/race/ (Click here to view all the items in this series.) I’d always assumed that if I didn’t mention race to my daughter, if it was just a non-issue, that she wouldn’t grow up to be racist. Boy, was I wrong about that. It turns out that our brains are wired to make generalizations about people, and race is a pretty obviously noticeable way of categorizing peop...
005: How to "scaffold" children’s learning to help them succeed
September 26, 2016 07:00 - 18 minutes - 26.7 MBWhen I started talking with people about the idea for this podcast, one theme that came up consistently was the idea of supporting our children’s growth and development. A friend of mine summed it up most concisely and articulately by asking “how do I know when to lead and when I should step back and let my daughter lead?” This episode covers the concept of “scaffolding,” which is a method parents can use to observe and support their children’s development by providing just enough assistance...
005: How to “scaffold” children’s learning to help them succeed
September 26, 2016 07:00 - 18 minutes - 26.7 MBWhen I started talking with people about the idea for this podcast, one theme that came up consistently was the idea of supporting our children’s growth and development. A friend of mine summed it up most concisely and articulately by asking “how do I know when to lead and when I should step back and let my daughter lead?” This episode covers the concept of “scaffolding,” which is a method parents can use to observe and support their children’s development by providing just enough assistance...
004: How to encourage creativity and artistic ability in young children – Interview with Dr. Tara Callaghan
September 19, 2016 01:30 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBI’m so excited to welcome my first guest on the Your Parenting Mojo podcast: Professor Tara Callaghan of St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. Professor Callaghan has spent a great number of years studying the emergence of artistic ability in young children and she shares some of her insights with us. This is a rather longer episode than usual so here are some places you might want to skip ahead to if you have specific interest: [3:55]: The connection between individuality and cre...
003: Did you miss the boat on teaching your toddler how to read? (Me too!)
September 12, 2016 07:00 - 16 minutes - 23.5 MBSo did you teach your toddler to read yet? And if not, why not? I’m just kidding, of course. I wanted to write this episode on encouraging literacy in middle to older toddlers, but the more I researched the more I found the issues go much further back than what you do in toddlerhood. Then I found – and read! – a 45,000 word essay by Larry Sanger, who taught his baby son to read. I’m not kidding. Check out the link to the video on YouTube in the references. My two-year-old can’t read yet...
002: Why doesn’t my toddler share?
August 18, 2016 22:11 - 17 minutes - 24.5 MBImagine this: you’re with your toddler son or daughter at a playground on a Saturday afternoon so there are a lot of people around. You’re sitting on a bench while your child plays in the sandpit where several others are playing as well. You’re half paying attention while you catch up with some texts on your phone. You hear a scream and when you look up you see a child you don’t know clutching tightly onto the spade your child had been playing with, and your child is about to burst into te...
001: The influence of culture on parenting
August 18, 2016 21:14 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBHave you ever thought about how common the murder of children has been in societies we now call “Western” in the past, as well as societies all over the world today? In my naivete as a parent I figured there would be some differences in how people parent their children around the world, but I never imagined that people in my own back yards would parent completely differently from me. And I sort of figured that the ‘around the world’ differences were mostly a function of the availability of ...
000: Philosophy (aka "What’s this Podcast All About?")
August 15, 2016 08:43 - 14 minutes - 16.6 MBI always thought the infant phase would be the hardest part of parenting, when all the baby does is eat and sleep and cry. Now I have a toddler I’m finding it’s harder than having a baby, some of the support systems that I had when she was a baby aren’t there any more, and the parenting skills I need are totally different. How do I even know what I need to learn to not mess up this parenting thing? Should I go back to school to try to figure it all out? In this episode I’ll tell you the h...