Raising Daughters

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 Ellis A pe...

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 resp...

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 Rumination Previous Dr. Jordan podcast: The Real Keys To a Happy Life: It's Not What You Think Dr. Jordan’s new book is available! Keeping Your Family Grounded When You’r...

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 conseque...

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 Weloki Read Michael Thompson’s book about the value of camps: Homesick and Ha...

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...

Description Flexible, Authoritative Parenting Teaches Kids to Problem-Solve and Create Win-Win Agreements: In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan encourages parents to adopt the authoritative style of parenting where you are flexible enough to allow give and take when making agreements. This leaves kids feeling heard, respected, able to problem-solve and create win-win agreements, and remaining close to...

How can I get my children and myself unplugged from technology? How can I provide opportunities for what kids really need—downtime, boredom, unsupervised free play, and in-person time with family and friends? In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan interviews author Katherine Martinko to answer these questions and more. Resources:Website: Katherine Johnson Martinko  Newsletter: The Analog Family Book: Chi...

In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan describes girls who decide they are dumb and will have a poor future because they struggle in school due to learning disabilities or dyslexia. He discusses how to help these girls reframe their negative beliefs about themselves and also shares stories about eminent people who overcame learning struggles to find fulfillment and success, including Thomas Edison, Richa...

In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan interviews Gabriela Nguyen, founder of Appstinent, about her 5D Step Method to wean off social media. Despite teens’ fears of losing friends, this process encourages them to replace social media with meaningful activities, including alternative ways to stay connected via phone calls, video calls, and texts, as well as more in-person connections.5D Method: Decrease,...

Description: In this podcast, Dr. Jordan describes 2 girls, a 4th grader and an 11th grader, who are stressed out due to over full schedules. Dr. Tim also describes 2 other factors that add to children’s stress levels today: excessive pressure to excel and valuing achievement over character. Kids and teens have internalized the message that more is better and that everything that they do, grades a...

Description: In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan describes the importance of parents spending time together so that when the last child leaves the nest, they haven’t become strangers. Dr. Jordan describes the ‘empty nest divorce trend’ that can result from years of couples neglecting their needs as a couple. Learn some rituals you can do together in order to keep your marriage fires burning so that yo...

In this new podcast, Dr. Tim Jordan highlights critical ways girls can demonstrate to their parents that they possess the maturity and responsibility needed to earn a smartphone or use social media. These include having a solid sleep routine and getting enough sleep, appropriately managing prior levels of technology, exhibiting good impulse control, consistently following through with agreements w...

Learn how your daughter’s connectedness to parents, family, community, and culture is more predictive of their mental health than their history of adversity. Dr. Jordan also describes how the timing of adversity makes a huge difference in determining overall risk for kids. Kids need someone who can reinforce that it’s not their fault, they’re not crazy, and that they can get thru tough times. Be s...

Dr. Jordan offers 2 powerful metaphors about how your daughters can learn to face and overcome adversities. Unlike cows, buffalos charge directly into storms, facing the challenge head-on, maintaining control over their path and with support from the herd. Instead of procrastinating or avoiding challenges, lions teach us to go towards and thru our fears because they almost never have as much “teet...

In this new podcast, Dr. Jordan describes how to teach your daughters how to become media and image savvy in order to combat the onslaught of unhealthy messages about their bodies from social media, ads, and videos. Learn some critical questions girls can learn to ask themselves every time they look at photos, and to understand they are being sold the message that they are not good enough and that...

Dr. Jordan uses stories of eminent people like scientist Marie Curie, violinist Itzhak Perlman, and actor James Earl Jones to demonstrate how allowing girls to overcome adversity helps them to develop courage, resilience, self-esteem, grit, and optimism. The reason the butterfly pushes against the sides of her cocoon is to push fluids down the length of her wings in order to strengthen them in pre...