Season 2, Episode 38: Jen Lumanlan on Parenting Beyond Power

This week on the podcast, I speak with the wonderful Jen Lumanlan about our needs, our children's needs, the way that power and white supremacy and the patriarchy shows up in our parenting and in our relationships with our children. I hope it’s helpful!

Jen Lumanlan is the host of Your Parenting Mojo podcast, which was named best research based parenting podcast by Lifehacker, and has been downloaded over 3 million times. After attending Berkeley and Yale and following a traditional career path in sustainability consulting, Jen found that parenting was her toughest challenge yet. She went back to school for a master's degree in psychology focused on child development, and another in education, and trained as a Co-active Coach to share what she learned with other parents. She is the author of the new book, Parenting Beyond Power: How to Use Connection and Collaboration to Transform your Family and the World. Jen also has a free quiz available for parents that helps you to identify the unmet need behind your child's behaviour and then some strategies to meet those needs which you can find here.