How to Help Children Who Procrastinate

By Jen Lumanlan | April 1, 2025
A boy leaning on his crossed arms at a wooden table

Procrastination isn’t laziness. It’s emotional avoidance. Discover tools on how to help your child break the cycle.

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How to Prepare Children for the Real World

By Jen Lumanlan | March 16, 2025
Two smiling young children with their arms around each other taking a selfie outdoors.

Worried about food battles, screen time struggles, and preparing your child for harsh realities? Parents face constant pressure to “toughen up” their kids for the real world. But what if there’s a different way?

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9 Ways to Raise Value-Driven Kids in Today’s Political Climate

By Jen Lumanlan | November 18, 2024

Want to raise kids who truly live your values of fairness and belonging? It starts with examining whether we’re actually living those values ourselves – and many of us aren’t as aligned as we think.

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Why rape culture hurts us so much (It doesn’t have to be this way)

By Jen Lumanlan | February 25, 2024

When I forced medicine into my three-year-old’s mouth, I realized I was perpetuating the same culture that taught me my body wasn’t my own. There’s a different way to raise children who understand consent.

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How social forces have hurt us and will hurt our children (and what to do about it)

By Jen Lumanlan | January 31, 2024

Wonder why parenting feels so hard? Social forces like White supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism aren’t just “out there”. They’re shaping your family relationships right now. Here’s how to recognize and dismantle them.

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The Magic Trick that Makes us Better Parents.

By Jen Lumanlan | January 26, 2024

Three simple words can transform your relationship with your child and stop you from getting stuck in stories that make parenting harder. This magic trick works almost instantly – here’s how to use it.

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The connection between social challenges and power

By Jen Lumanlan | August 16, 2023

Most of our big social challenges stem from oppression – the systemic use of power to discriminate and marginalize. Understanding this connection changes how we see workplace dynamics, politics, and even our own parenting.

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What to read instead of the Your X-Year-Old child books

By Jen Lumanlan | December 11, 2022
A smiling woman and man reading together from a red book, looking happy and engaged.

Those popular “Your X-Year-Old” child development books are based on biased 1930s research that only studied White, middle-class children. Here’s what to read instead for understanding your child’s behavior today.

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‘Authoritative’ isn’t the best parenting style

By Jen Lumanlan | May 8, 2022
A father in a coral-colored button-up shirt sits on a sofa next to his young daughter who appears upset or sad

Think authoritative parenting is the gold standard? The creator of parenting styles said authoritative parents “spanked just as much as the average of all other parents.” There’s a better way than control-based approaches.

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How to reconnect with your body – and your child

By Jen Lumanlan | February 12, 2021

Why do you explode over unfinished cereal or backtalk? Your oversized reactions aren’t about your child’s behavior. They’re about trauma living in your automatic response system. Here’s how to reconnect and respond differently.

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