The cost to join the group is $39/month.  There's an early-bird discount available of $390 for the year (12 months for the price of 10) that expires at 11pm PST on July 26th, 2019.

I experimented with offering hardship discounts when I opened the group last year and the one thing that I have learned since then is that the people who pay a deeply discounted rate rarely participate in a way that allows them to really get the benefits that the group offers if you are fully engaged.  I think you need some ‘skin in the game’ to see the value that doing this kind of work can bring.

That said, having studied inequality for a couple of years now, I would never want the group to be truly inaccessible to someone who feels it will really benefit them.  If joining the group would strongly benefit you but the price would take meals out of your children’s mouths, then please email me at jen@yourparentingmojo.com to (briefly) explain your situation and I’ll do what I can to accommodate you.

Membership in the group is risk-free and you can cancel at any time.  Once you cancel, you won’t owe another payment and you will be removed from the group at the end of the current month.

No!  The monthly fee covers you and any other member of your family/caregiving team who regularly interacts with your child/ren.  After you sign up, please send an email to jen@yourparentingmojo.com giving me the names and email addresses of the additional individual(s) who will need access and I will set up user accounts for them, which will also get them access to the Facebook group.

The membership is geared toward parents of children who are aged between 12-18 months, through six or seven.  If you’re on the earlier side but like to feel prepared, come on in!  If your child is on the older side but you don’t have a vision for parenting (and you’d like one), and you’re struggling with tantrums, power struggles, setting boundaries, and the like – you’ll definitely find a home here. 

The group is a judgement-free zone.  Some members will be pretty happy with how things are at home and are looking to refine their tools, while others are in a hot mess and need a whole new approach.  Either way, you’ll find support, advice, a hand to hold and an arm to lean on.

Great question!  My approach is grounded in scientific research (although I’m not a slave to the research) and principles of respectful parenting.  This means that I read all the research on a particular topic related to parenting and child development and try to understand what it says as a body of work (not just what the latest study with the clickbait title says).

But I also look to anthropological literature to understand how parents and children in other cultures deal with these issues to see whether our problems are of our own making (and thus we can also look to other cultures for potential solutions) or whether parents and children everywhere face this particular issue. 

I view everything through a lens of respectful parenting.  In general, I find that the research tends to support respectful parenting methods (e.g. not using rewards to try to motivate children; modeling emotional regulation rather than saying “You’re OK!”, not forcing a child to eat vegetables...).  If an idea is supported by both science and respectful parenting, then it’s pretty likely to make it into my toolkit.  Fortunately, there aren’t too many ideas that meet one but not the other (speaking to infants in exaggerated tones is one rare exception – it’s supported by research literature but not respectful parenting).

Finally, I view learning and development as interconnected.  Sometimes development leads learning – and sometimes it’s the other way around.  If we ask a child to do something they aren’t yet developmentally ready to do, we’re setting ourselves up for trouble.  But sometimes we can scaffold their learning, and thus their development, if we decide that’s something we want to do.  This intertwined push/pull is part of the dance of parenting☺

No!  Far from it.  Because the membership is laser-focused on implementation, there will be very little new reading/listening material.  I might refer you back to a podcast episode that discusses the topic in question, or perhaps too a blog post.  But the majority of our time in the membership will be spent thinking through how we interact with our child and how we want to interact with our child and writing ideas in a workbook, spending time on live calls with me, and actually implementing the strategies we discuss.

The Finding Your Parenting Mojo members are my #1 priority.  I’m in the Facebook group at least every other weekday, posting discussion prompts, answering questions, and gathering ideas for what you want to learn about future topics.

Before each group call I request your questions; where some of these overlap I combine them and answer them together, always with a view to helping you see the higher-level picture. So even if I’m answering another listener’s question, you can still see how the methods I’m using apply to situations that happen in your family.  And these aren’t one-way lectures; you get to interact directly with me on the calls and clarify your understanding if you need it.

I’m committed to your success.  If you have done the activities in the monthly Guide and participated in the group calls (or submitted questions and listened to the recordings) and you still struggle to make progress on the topic of the month, I’ll be in touch with you directly to help you develop a plan to overcome whatever obstacle you’re facing.