Connecting the Dots: Not Just Another Parenting Podcast

Jillian Best Adler
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This is not parenting advice.  This is my well-informed parenting perspective.   A little bit autobiographical, a little bit cultural reflection, a whole lot of talking about parenting and its role in creating social change. 

  1. NOV 12

    Time Release Parenting: Empathy, Perspective-Taking, and Gratitude

    How well are we modeling empathy, perspective-taking, and gratitude in our daily lives so that our children will learn these critical justice-building values? Let's explore it together.

    23 min

  2. SEP 26

    COVID and Kindergarten

    How did COVID impact our parenting, particularly for those of us who were having and raising babies in 2020 and who had kindergarteners in 2020? This is a heavy topic to talk about.  Make sure that you take good care of yourself, even if that means skipping this one. Trigger warnings: Talk of COVID, anxiety, and infant feeding issues

    21 min

  3. SEP 12

    Are You Subconsciously Grading Your Child? I am... or was... or am.

    Welcome back for Season 3!  The back to school season has me thinking about grades and connecting the dots between our habit of expecting success to be easily measurable as 100% and what we should reasonably expect from our children.

    20 min

  4. MAY 30

    Why I'm Happy that My Kid Had a Meltdown at School

    I love it when there's evidence that my long-term goals for my kids are in motion.  This meltdown turned out to be an unexpected milestone.

    22 min

  5. MAY 14

    It's About Dinner Time!

    Finally!  After months upon months of teasing this episode, here it is:  I'm talking about how I gave up family dinner so that I could work towards the family dinner that I really wanted.

    24 min

  6. APR 30

    Measuring Your Success as a Parent

    How confident are you that you're succeeding in your parenting?  How can you know if you don't know what you're measuring?  In this episode, I share a story about how my daughter's confrontational nature allowed me to double-down on my own confidence in my success.

    11 min

  7. MAR 27

    Spring Break Challenge Day 5 - Introducing Slavery Part 2

    In this episode, I offer a follow up to explain some of my responses to my children as we talked about slavery in American History.  I also describe a conversation about racism and colorism that my family had over dinner.

    11 min

  8. MAR 26

    Spring Break Challenge Day 4a - Introducing Slavery

    In this bonus episode, I explain why and how I told my five-year-olds about the existence of slavery in American History.

    9 min
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This is not parenting advice.  This is my well-informed parenting perspective.   A little bit autobiographical, a little bit cultural reflection, a whole lot of talking about parenting and its role in creating social change. 

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