Connecting the Dots: Not Just Another Parenting Podcast
Jillian Best Adler
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About This Podcast
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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Screentime, Hands-on Parenting, and Low Restriction Environments
After spending 17 days at home with my kids for winter break, I reflected on the relationship between screentime, hands-on parenting, and low restriction environments. In homes where adults don't…
S3E4 My Dopamine Dreamhouse
In this short episode, I reflect on the ways that I've made my home full of pleasure and comfort for myself so that I am well regulated and better able to meet my own parenting goals. Check out the…
S3E3 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.
S3E2 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…
S3E1 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…
S2E11 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.
S2E10 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.
S2E9 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…
S2E8 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…
S2E7 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.
S2E6 Spring Break Challenge Day 4 - Parental Invisibility
In this very short episode, I share an anecdote about parental invisibility, that phenomenon when all of your hard work parenting your children is completely unseen by them...and maybe others.
S2E5 Spring Break Challenge Day 2 - The Therapeutic Value of Frozen 2
In this episode, the second of the Spring Break Challenge (in which I post a half-baked short episode every day that my children are home for spring break), I analyze the therapeutic value of Frozen…
S2E4 Spring Break Challenge Day 1
In this short episode, I introduce a challenge that I've created for myself to upload a short episode every day of my children's spring break. Connecting the dots between the value of changing the…
S2E3 Behavioral Change Requires Environmental Change
I've been fiddling with this theory that all behavioral change requires an environmental change. In this episode, I describe what that looks like in my life and might look like in yours.
S2E2 Introducing: Connecting the Dots! It's Not JUST Another Parenting Podcast
We're welcoming back the podcast with a new name and an official new format by talking about walking the talk and lessons learned.
S2E1 Post-Election Day Perspectives
In this short, solo episode, I wend my way through my own thoughts and experiences in the early hours of November 6, 2024, sharing perspectives on finding gratitude, talking about hard stuff with…
S1E13 Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in My Parenting Beliefs and Behaviors: Perfection, One Right Way, and Fear
In this "Dismantling White Supremacy Culture" series, I share my process of learning more about the characteristics of white supremacy culture and how they show up in my parenting beliefs and…
S1E12 Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in My Parenting Beliefs and Behaviors: Intro
This episode introduces a series in which I explore the ways that white supremacy culture influences my parenting. I first became familiar with Tema Okun's White Supremacy Culture article within my…
S1E11 Interview with Steph: When Gentle Parenting is Not Gentle On Us
In this episode, I am in conversation with Steph, a mom who describes herself as a "neurospicy." We talk a lot about how it actually, physically FEELS to parent, particularly when we are committed…
S1E10 Getting Unstuck
In this short episode, I share my own experience with feeling stuck in some unpleasant cycles with my children and what I'm doing to get unstuck.To connect with me about helping you get unstuck, you…
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Connecting the Dots: Not Just Another Parenting Podcast has published 30 episodes since March 2023, covering topics in Kids & Family, Parenting.
Connecting the Dots: Not Just Another Parenting Podcast is currently moderate with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 14m.
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