Modern Parenting

222: How to cultivate Menstrual Cycle Awareness with The Red School

By Jen Lumanlan | Aug 25, 2024

This episode was…unplanned. 🙂 A couple of months ago I interviewed Dr. Louise Newson on the topic of menopause. Dr. Newson is a medical doctor and focused very heavily on Hormone Replacement Therapy as a treatment that everyone who menstruates should at least consider, and I knew I wanted to do an episode with someone…

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220: Nutritious movement for your child – and you!

By Jen Lumanlan | Aug 11, 2024

A few months ago my daughter had a routine checkup at the doctor, who asked how much screen time she gets in a day (which is more than typical recommendations but way less time than children spend sitting in school). The doctor told her (but really she told me): “You should get more exercise.” Carys…

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219: The skills your child will need in the age of AI

By Jen Lumanlan | Aug 4, 2024

What your child is learning in school isn’t enough The things your child is learning in school are not the things that are most likely to lead to their success in the future. Who could have predicted the shifts we’ve seen since Chat GPT-3 was released to the public in November 2022? While AI still…

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Episode Summary 01: Building a better relationship with screen time

By Jen Lumanlan | Jul 30, 2024

Thanks to those of you who completed the recent survey on how I can serve you better, some changes are coming to the YPM world!  While most respondents said they loved the length of the episodes because they appreciate how much detail we can get into in that time, a number of people said they had…

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218: What children learn from video games

By Jen Lumanlan | Jul 28, 2024

Last week, parent Nicole and I talked with @TheGamerEducator Ash Brandin about the challenges we can have when our kids love video games. [insert link to previous episode] I had also hoped to ask Ash a lot of questions about what children learn from video games but we completely ran out of time, so I…

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