How to Understand and Support Your Sensitive Daughter
Dr. Jordan interviews Dr. Judith Orloff about the challenges and gifts experienced by sensitive, empathic girls
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How Not to Raise an Entitled Brat
Show Notes: Are we raising a GENERATION of indulged & entitled brats? Adults these days worry that we are raising a generation of entitled and indulged brats; here’s how prepare kids to be hardworking and
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Is College Necessary for a Successful Life?
Show Notes: Drop the 1-size-fits-all standard about everyone needing college & be open to kids finding their own path to success. Kids conditioned to believe there is only 1 path to success I encourage all
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10 Common Mistakes Parents Of Girls Make
Not all parents’ mistakes are committed knowing they will have negative impact. In fact, most parenting errors start with good intentions. How can we be aware of what we’re doing wrong and improve how
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Social Emotional Learning Transforms Classrooms into Caring Communities
Show Notes: The best deterrent for mean girl behavior The best deterrent for mean girl behaviors is how much girls come to know, understand, and care about each other; SEL programs create these results. Put
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12 Ways Girls Give Their Power Away
Show Notes: Here are 12 ways girls give their power away and how it costs them. Reasons why girls give thier power away Dr. Jordan explains reasons why girls and women give their power away,
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Understanding and Supporting LGBTQ Girls
Dr. Jordan’s observations about girls questioning their sexuality & gender identity to help parents better understand & support their daughters. Show Notes: Girls who QUESTION their sexuality I’m seeing more and more adolescent girls who
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The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Parents – Part 2
Show Notes: Dr. Jordan offers 3 more parenting strategies that will cause their daughters to become miserable adults: Focus on what you do have control over & solutions 5. Focus on unhealthy things: too often focus
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The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Parents Pt. 1
Show Notes: Dr. Jordan offers 7 ineffective parenting strategies that will result in their daughters becoming miserable adults: Making decisions to please or to not disappoint others Buy into cultural myths & standards 2. Buy
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Overcome Overwhelming Stress and Live a Fulfilling Life
How to overcome overwhelming stress and live a fulfilling life Show Notes: Edgar Allan Poe’s Descent Into the Maelstrom Metaphor Dr. Jordan uses Edgar Allan Poe’s story, Descent into the Maelstrom, as a metaphor for
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Anxious Girls Can Learn to Tame Rumination
Show Notes: Ruminating, i.e., making mountains out of molehills, causes much anxiety in girls & can be tamed with awareness & tools Help girls understand why they ruminate and learn tools to handle it and
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Kindness and Peace Are Contagious; Spread Them Everywhere
Show Notes: Mirror neurons cause peer pressure Mirror neurons keep track of what other people are thinking, feeling, and doing. We are hard-wired to connect; alone = death Individual choices are powerfully shaped by what other
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How to Teach Your Kids About Consent
Parenting expert Christy Keating and I discuss how parents can teach kids about consent starting in preschool Show Notes: Learning about consent should start in preschool Consent is not a one time talk at age
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A peek into your your daughter’s emotions as she starts college
Be prepared to be surprised as 3 young women candidly describe their thoughts & feelings as they begin their 1st year of college Show Notes: 3 young women who are about to begin college open
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Reflecting on your mortality can give life urgency, perspective, and purpose
Reflecting on your mortality (Memento Mori) can be an important motivator for living your life at 110% with purpose. Show Notes: Reflecting on your mortality can be an important motivator for living your life at
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Menstruation 2.0: How to educate girls about their periods
Listen in as expert Kirsten Karchmer discusses how to help girls better understand their periods & how to better manage them; BTW, boys need this education too Show Notes: Guest: Kirsten Karchmer: Kirsten is an
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Moana, Dorothy, and Rey: The heroine’s journey models how girls can thrive during adolescence
The stories of fictional characters like Moana, Rey, and the Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy can help your daughter reframe her adolescent challenges as a normal part of her heroine’s journey and to relax and enjoy
Learning to understand, reframe, tame, and love your anxiety to lessen its impact
Every girls needs to learn to reframe, tame, and love their anxiety. Unfortunately, most girls tend to have a complicated relationship with anxiety. They judge it, get frustrated by it, and fear its presence. All
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How Covid is affecting college student’s experience, in their own words
Three young adults describe the social, emotional, and academic effects of Covid on their college experience and lives and how they are coping. Have your young adult children read my book, Letters from My Grandfather:
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Best way to put 2020 to rest and begin the new year? Set intentions by beginning with the end in mind
As the calendar page turns to 2021, I encourage you to set intentions for the new year by beginning with the end in mind. This concept was popularized in Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of