Raising Daughters

In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan interviews author Jean Twenge, PhD about her new book, 10 Rules for Raising Kids In a High-tech World: how parents can stop smartphones, social media, and gaming from taking over their children’s livesResources:For more info on Dr. Twenge’s resources, visit her website at www. JeanTwenge.comListen to past podcasts with Melanie Hempe from Screenstrong.org and from Ga...

Dr. Jordan interviews Ob-Gyn Dr. Melissa Holmes, founder of the educational App Girlology, about educating girls and parents about puberty, periods, sexuality, and body image. Link to the Girlology App: https://girlology.com/Instagram @girlologyTo access free content for parents, Dr. Momfidence is our chatbot that will answer questions with content and resources that only come from Girlology and p...

In this episode, Dr. Jordan discusses the harm from girls not asking for what they want and always putting other’s needs before their own. Learn some tools to help girls redirect their unhealthy pattern and raise their confidence and self-esteem. Dr. Jordan’s new book is available! Keeping Your Family Grounded When You’re Flying By the Seat of Your Pants, revised and updated edition with an invalu...

Dr. Jordan interviews author Melanie Hempe about how to educate children and teens about the brain science about how smartphones and social media negatively affect their brains, their social skills, and cause addictive behaviors. Keywords: Melanie Hempe, Screenstrong, smartphones, social media, addictions, video games, gaming, screen use addictions, dopamine, stress, sleep deprivation in teenagers...

Description: In this new podcast, Dr. Jorda describes the harm of overvaluing war and sports metaphors and the need to be more mindful of the words we use. He also discusses the need to value the many ways girls exhibit courage, power, and leadership. Dr. Jordan’s previous related podcast: Redefining power and leadership: How Our World Would Be Different if Women Were the Storytellers Dr. Jordan’s...

Description: In this new podcast using real life stories of 5 girls, Dr. Jordan describes different ways kids whose needs are not being met express “What about me?” and offers ways parents can teach girls to express their needs in effective ways. If you have comments about these podcast episodes or ideas for future ones, email me at anne@drtimjordan.comJoin Our Community:https://www.facebook.com/D...

Description: In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan explains how the molting process of blue crabs is similar to the vulnerability adolescent girls feel as they experience changes due to puberty, attention from boys, cultural mixed messages, and pressures from school and activities. Using metaphors from fairy tales, Dr. Jordan will show you the inward-directed heroine’s journey girls traverse as they ove...

Using stories from Fredrik Backman’s new book, My Friends, Dr. Jordan helps listeners get below the surface and into the hearts of how kids feel who are different, lonely, hurting, or experiencing traumas. Fredrik Backman’s new book: My Friends: A NovelDr. Jordan’s new book is now an audio book: Keeping Your Family Grounded When You’re Flying By the Seat of Your Pants, revised and updated edition...

Listen in to Dr. Jordan’s new podcast describing the effects of past friendship dramas on girls and how to find loyal, inclusive, mature friends that they deserve. This  includes creating a list of qualities of a BFF and finding peers who match her list, and how to show up as your authentic self to attract friends who love the real you. Resources: Previous Dr. Jordan podcast on girl’s friendships:...

This new podcast will help you get your daughter off to a great start to the school year by maximizing her study space, teaching her about the 3 factors needed for optimal breaks, and avoiding procrastination and multitasking. You’ll also learn the rationale behind why phones and devices need to be absent from her study space. Related resources:Dr. Jordan’s previous related podcast, How To Be Happ...

Working moms are often defined by their career achievements, pushed around by social pressures, and limited by stress at all fronts. This hinders them from living their authentic and sacred life. Dr. Tim Jordan interviews Julia Sewell, author of The Self-Made Mom, to discuss how they can define success and balance on their own terms and rediscover joy. She explains what it takes to get rid of the...

Description: 2 college sophomores share about their experiences during their first year in college including: social and academic challenges, the dating scene, picking majors, and how their parents could have better prepared them for the transition. Previous Dr. Jordan podcasts related to college:Best Ways To Support Your Daughter Through The College Application Process With Dr. Pamela EllisA peek...

Dr. Tim Jordan is joined by Joanna Lilley, a professional consultant for young adults, to discuss the most important attributes to look for to know your daughter is ready to go off to college. They explore how parents can offer the right level of support to their college-bound children, preparing them not just physically and financially, but most importantly, mentally and emotionally. Joanna also...

Description: In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan describes how girls can show parents they are keeping their power and thus earn the ability to start social media. Click here for a handout of the many ways girls can show you they are keeping their power. Dr. Jordan’s previous podcasts on social and maturational readiness signs for starting social media:Does your daughter possess the maturity and respo...

In this new podcast, learn how to help girls understand and switch out of their negative thinking patterns. Resources related to this podcast topic:Previous Dr. Jordan podcast: How Parents Can Teach Daughters to Stop Overwhelming RuminationPrevious Dr. Jordan podcast: The Real Keys To a Happy Life: It's Not What You ThinkDr. Jordan’s new book is available! Keeping Your Family Grounded When You’re...

There are many valuable strategies that parents can learn from business owners when building a strong family culture. Dr. Tim Jordan explores these CEO-inspired approaches with parenting coach Avital Levy. Together, they examine the current trends in family building and parenting, as well as how to establish a clear vision within a home, much like a business would. Avital warns about the consequen...

Description: Listen in as Dr. Jordan describes the many benefits grandparents bring to their grandchildren, including providing unconditional love and support, always having time to play or just listen, following their lead, deriving pleasure from being in the moment vs. worrying about their future, and sharing stories that connect kids to their heritage and cultural identity. Enjoy many touching...

Kids are not necessarily safe just by staying at home anymore. Once they go online through their phones, they are already at risk in meeting and being preyed upon by online predators. Dr. Tim Jordan interviews expert Nate Lewis, CEO of The Innocent, about how to keep your daughter safe from these evildoers lurking around the internet. They discuss how parents must set the right boundaries for thei...

Description: Dr. Jordan describes the incredible benefits for overnight camps including: time in nature, a break from technologies, a slower pace, a break from your regular life, building autonomy and confidence, and making special friends for life. Related Resources:Check out Dr. Jordan’s overnight camps for girls: Camp WelokiRead Michael Thompson’s book about the value of camps: Homesick and Hap...

In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan describes ways to discover the best context in which your daughter is most likely to share with you, including a shoulder-to-shoulder approach, describing the issue from their point of view, having her express her thoughts in writing, or sharing your own stories so she knows you can relate. Valuable resources on this topic:Read the chapter on how to best listen to y...

20’s has always been a decade of uncertainty. Most people in this age range face tons of doubts and are often unsure what they should do with their lives. In this new podcast, Dr. Tim Jordan interviews author and mental health advocate Kate Berski about her new book, 30-Phobia: Why Your 20's Suck and How to Get Unstuck. She breaks down practical tips on preparing girls throughout their childhoods...

Description: In this podcast, Dr. Jordan describes a tried and true process for teaching your daughters how to learn from their mistakes. Girls can learn to become aware of the internal alarm that sounds at decision points, where they feel it in their bodies, why they ignored it when they made a mistake, and what they will do different so that they won’t be vulnerable to making the same mistake ag...

Description: In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan describes how technology and social media have caused teenagers and young adults to feel so socially awkward today. When it comes to creating close connections, girls have evolved from being scuba divers to jet skiers. They used to have in depth conversations/connection (scuba divers) to now have very little connection and racing along alone (jet skiers...

In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan describes how girls today are experiencing debilitating stress from pressures/expectations to be perfect and a sense of never being enough and feelings of discontentment. Learn ways to support girls in choosing healthy intentions for all that they do and create their own expectations. Resources:Look for Dr. Jordan’s new book: Keeping Your Family Grounded When You’re...

Dive into a captivating conversation where Dr. Tim Jordan and the unstoppable serial entrepreneur Melissa Saleh dissect the very DNA of female leadership. They delve into how to artfully blend masculine drive with feminine intuition, turning obstacles into stepping stones. Melissa’s raw, real-world experience illuminates how adapting isn’t about conforming. It’s about strategically reshaping the l...