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Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

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In the 25+ years Janet Lansbury has worked with children and parents, she's learned a lot. She's here to share it with you. Each episode of Unruffled addresses a reader's parenting issue through the lens of Janet's respectful parenting approach, consistently offering a perspective shift that ultimately frees parents of the need for scripts, strategies, tricks, and tactics. Janet is a parenting author and consultant whose website (JanetLansbury.com) is visited by millions of readers annually. Her work informs, inspires, and supports caregivers of infants and toddlers across the globe, helping to create authentic relationships of respect, trust, and love. Janet's "No Bad Kids Master Course" is available at NoBadKidsCourse and JanetLansbury. Her best-selling books “No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline without Shame” and "Elevating Child Care: A Guide to Respectful Parenting" are available in all formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever you buy your books. Featured in The New Yorker, recommended 'Best Parenting Podcast' by The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, The Cut, Fatherly, Today's Parent, and many, many more. Please note: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. The views and advice presented on this podcast by Janet Lansbury and her guests are based on their training and experience. Opinions are offered in good faith but do not constitute professional, psychiatric, or medical advice, neither are they intended to be. You do not have to use this information, and it should not be substituted for qualified medical expertise. Copyright JLML Press (2025) All Rights Reserved© All rights reserved Parenting & Families Relationships
Episodes
  • Making a Successful Transition to Preschool (with Mr. Chazz)

    Making a Successful Transition to Preschool (with Mr. Chazz)
    Aug 12 2025
    Janet welcomes a timely visit from iconic educator Mr. Chazz who shares how parents and teachers can help kids successfully transition to a new preschool or childcare situation. His focus is on trust and maintaining the sense of connection that supports parents and kids to separate with confidence. Janet's "No Bad Kids" Master Course is at nobadkidscourse.com. Please support our sponsors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    45 mins
  • How to Help a Strong-Willed Child (Without Wounding His Spirit)

    How to Help a Strong-Willed Child (Without Wounding His Spirit)
    Aug 5 2025
    A parent describes her 4-year-old son as energetic, independent and strong-willed. While she appreciates her son’s enthusiasm and free spirit, she constantly struggles to reign him in and finds herself yelling, "You're not listening!" As an example, she says they often take nature walks with friends, and he inevitably runs ahead at an unsafe distance. She feels overwhelmed, especially when they are out with other parents “that have high expectations for behavior." In this encore episode, Janet offers a few ways to help her son listen but “without killing his free spirit.” Janet's "No Bad Kids Master Course" is available at NoBadKidsCourse.com and JanetLansbury.com. Please support our sponsors. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    23 mins
  • Validating Feelings Isn't Working

    Validating Feelings Isn't Working
    Jul 29 2025
    The practice of acknowledging our children's feelings and struggles can provide healing, calming messages of safety and acceptance. With a genuine tone and a few words, our acknowledgments can help children share pent-up emotions, feel seen and heard, and gradually regulate, which in turn eases problematic behaviors. However, parents commonly share with Janet that validating feelings doesn't work for their child and feels more like an exercise in frustration. In this encore episode, Janet speaks to some of the common reasons this practice might feel less effective, what to do instead, and why we shouldn't give up on acknowledging as a powerfully empathic relationship-building tool. Janet's "No Bad Kids Master Course" is available at NoBadKidsCourse.com and JanetLansbury.com. Please support our sponsors. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    21 mins
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I am looking forward to apply this method with my 4 year old. We have not been very pushy but now I know what to apply and what things are not helpful.

Respectful method

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This entire podcast is always in my back pocket when I need help. I turn to you and your gentle approach and child centered views instead of calling my mother for help. You have gotten me through the foggy postpartum days helping me see that I am not alone, through teething and milestones, to bedtimes and potty training, some tricky behaviors and the occasional self doubt - you really have been one of my best mom friends during the loneliest times and pandemic. The one thing I take away from this podcast time and time again is often times the problem is me... it is my expectation of how I want things to go or my child to behave and often times it is my discomfort that is the problem, to let my child feel their feelings and THAT is normal and I need to regulate myself to be the calm one they look to. Moments when they get upset with me, I know those are moments when I am being the BEST parent, setting boundaries and teaching them what is acceptable behavior. You helped heal my inner child and also break some generational cycles. Thank you for your endless work and spreading your passion for Magda Gerber's work.

Would be lost without you!

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I’m amazed at how in tune Janet is with her listeners and our children. She knows exactly how to explain dilemmas and solutions in an easy to follow, easy to understand way. I listen to every single episode but this one especially helped expand my view as a parent and care giver to my child. Please please please listen if you care for children. This will change how you treat yourself, your children and people you come in contact with which will only add to making our world a happier, better place.

Whatever issue is coming up with my kids happens to be what Janet touches on in her current podcasts

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Janet is my go-to resource for parenting advice for my toddler. So grateful for her wisdom and expertise

Must Listen

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just what I needed to hear as always with Janet Lansbury. I gain more and more with every excerpt and audio she has. Thank you for sharing and putting things in perspective as well as giving examples and dialog I can use. ❤️

So helpful

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Janet’s calm and understanding voice guide us through her parenting approach. Helpful tips, kind encouragement, interesting guests.
It’s a great way of learning and improving, with a ton of examples.

Great for the parent looking to be a gentle, confident leader.

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