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The Whole Parent Podcast
Jon Fogel - WholeParent
64 episodes
3 days ago
Find out YOUR Parenting Type CLICK HERE In this episode, Jon introduces the Seeker parent: the caregiver driven by curiosity, depth, and a longing for what feels real and alive. Centered on the tension between freedom and responsibility, he explores how authenticity can become both a gift and a hiding place, especially when big feelings or obligations feel suffocating. Parents will walk away feeling deeply seen, with language for their restlessness, insight into how emotional intensity shows ...
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Find out YOUR Parenting Type CLICK HERE In this episode, Jon introduces the Seeker parent: the caregiver driven by curiosity, depth, and a longing for what feels real and alive. Centered on the tension between freedom and responsibility, he explores how authenticity can become both a gift and a hiding place, especially when big feelings or obligations feel suffocating. Parents will walk away feeling deeply seen, with language for their restlessness, insight into how emotional intensity shows ...
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Episodes (20/64)
The Whole Parent Podcast
Seeker, Parenting Type Series #62
Find out YOUR Parenting Type CLICK HERE In this episode, Jon introduces the Seeker parent: the caregiver driven by curiosity, depth, and a longing for what feels real and alive. Centered on the tension between freedom and responsibility, he explores how authenticity can become both a gift and a hiding place, especially when big feelings or obligations feel suffocating. Parents will walk away feeling deeply seen, with language for their restlessness, insight into how emotional intensity shows ...
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3 days ago
48 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
Driver, Parenting Type Series #61
Find out YOUR Parenting Type CLICK HERE' In this episode, Jon introduces the Driver parent: the caregiver who leads with momentum, decisiveness, and an instinct to move things forward. Grounded in the belief that safety comes from action, he explores how strength can quietly turn into control when vulnerability feels risky. Parents will walk away with language for their leadership instincts, insight into how power and connection can coexist, and reassurance that slowing down doesn’t diminish ...
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4 days ago
45 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
Nurturers, Parenting Type Series #60
Find out YOUR Parenting Type CLICK HERE In this episode, Jon introduces the Nurturer parent—the caregiver who leads with empathy, emotional attunement, and an instinct to make everyone feel okay. Centered on the tension between care and self-erasure, he names how deep connection can quietly slide into over-responsibility, especially when worth gets tied to being needed. Parents will walk away feeling deeply understood, with language for their strengths, clarity around their blind spots, and r...
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5 days ago
48 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
Guardians, Parenting Types Series #59
Find our YOUR Parenting Type CLICK HERE In this episode, Jon introduces the Guardian parent, the first of four parenting types, describing caregivers who lead with responsibility, structure, and a deep commitment to safety. Grounded in the idea that “control produces order, but trust produces rest,” he explores how early experiences shape a Guardian’s instinct to hold everything together. Parents will walk away feeling deeply seen, with language for their patterns, compassion for their nervou...
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6 days ago
42 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
New Year, New You? #34
In this episode we explore why parenting resolutions usually fail and show how timing, identity, and community make change stick. We share concrete scripts, fresh start tactics, and small habits that turn calm, respectful parenting into a daily identity. • why routines and status quo bias keep us stuck • habit loops that trade short-term relief for long-term regret • fresh start effect and the power of specific plans • identity statements that reshape daily choices • practical if-then script...
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1 week ago
31 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
What Toddlers Truly Remember About A Hard Holiday #58
In this episode, Jon slows the conversation down to sit with one parent’s deeply human question: what do our kids actually remember when we’re struggling? Responding to a mom navigating her first Christmas after separation, he unpacks why toddlers don’t store memories the way we fear—and why repair matters more than perfection. Parents will leave with relief, neuroscience-backed reassurance, and a clearer understanding of how safety, emotional honesty, and returning to connection shape a chil...
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1 week ago
43 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
When YOUR Parents Violate the Boundaries... #57
In this episode, Jon reflects on the ROUGH moments at family gatherings where love, history, and boundaries collide.... especially when you’re parenting in front of the people who raised you. Anchored in the reminder that “love does not require you to violate your boundaries,” he walks through real parent questions about food comments, gift overload, and forced affection. Parents will leave feeling less alone, more grounded in their authority, and clearer about how to protect their kids witho...
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1 week ago
51 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
The Great Santa Controversy #32
In this throwback episode, Jon takes on the Santa question: the moment every parent eventually faces when wonder collides with honesty. Framed around the tension between magic and trust, he explores how Santa works in a child’s developing brain and why the real issue isn’t whether Santa is “real,” but how we show up when kids ask big questions. Parents will walk away with clarity, compassion, and practical ways to navigate Santa conversations in a way that protects imagination, emotional safe...
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2 weeks ago
41 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
What to do about a SORE LOSER..... #56
In this episode, Jon explores why losing hits kids so hard—and why meltdowns over games are rarely about the game itself. Centered on the idea that “losing feels like a threat when a nervous system can’t predict what’s coming next,” he reframes sore losing as a regulation issue, not a character flaw. Parents will walk away with clarity, compassion, and practical ways to build frustration tolerance and resilience without shaming, fixing, or lowering expectations. Send us a text Support the sho...
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2 weeks ago
49 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
Parenting on Autopilot... #55
In this episode, Jon explores why parents often find themselves reacting on autopilot—saying things they swore they’d never say, in a tone that feels uncomfortably familiar. Centered on the idea of “factory default settings,” he explains how stress, fatigue, and old neural pathways quietly take over, even when our values are different. Parents will leave with relief, self-compassion, and practical nervous-system tools to interrupt inherited patterns and respond with more intention when it mat...
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2 weeks ago
42 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
When kids get MAD that you hold boundaries.... #54
Episode Summary In this episode, Jon explores what it means to hold boundaries when your child is angry with you—and why that discomfort doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong. Grounded in the truth that “kids aren’t supposed to like your boundaries all the time,” he reframes children’s anger as a normal, even necessary part of development. Parents will leave with reassurance, nervous-system insight, and a clearer sense of how to stay emotionally available without overexplaining, rescuing,...
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2 weeks ago
46 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
Why Toddlers Say "No"... #53
In this episode, Jon unpacks why toddlers seem to say “no” to everything—even the things they want—and why this phase isn’t defiance or manipulation, but their earliest tool for agency. Framed as a selfhood struggle, not a power struggle, the conversation reframes constant refusal as a sign of healthy development. Parents will leave with clarity, reassurance, and simple ways to reduce battles while protecting connection and supporting their child’s growing sense of self. Send us a text Suppor...
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2 weeks ago
46 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
What to do with a REALLY clingy kid.... #52
In this episode, Jon answers three real parent questions about clinginess — those “Velcro moments” when a child won’t let you leave the room and panic replaces logic. Through stories, brain science, and attachment research, he explores why clinginess is not a sign of overdependence, but a child’s way of saying “you are my safe person.” Parents will walk away with a clearer understanding of what clinginess really communicates, how to respond without reinforcing fear, and practical rituals that...
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3 weeks ago
43 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
Managing the Dreaded Transitions... #51
In this episode, Jon digs into the real reason transitions feel so “impossible” for kids — not because they’re being dramatic, but because shifting out of a moment they love can feel like a genuine shock to their system. Through stories, neuroscience, and deeply relatable parent questions, he explores why task-switching is so hard for developing brains and how a “satisfying end” can change everything. Listeners walk away with clarity, compassion, and concrete ways to support their child throu...
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3 weeks ago
38 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
Why Kids Interrupt... Impulse Control, Time Blindness, and what you can do about it #50
In this episode, Jon unpacks why kids interrupt, especially in those moments when it “starts to feel disrespectful and chaotic” and you’re thinking, they’re old enough, they should know better. He breaks down what’s really happening in the developing brain around time, impulse control, and attachment, and why so many “rude” behaviors are actually bids for connection. Listeners walk away with a clearer understanding of what their child’s interruptions are telling them, plus practical, shame-fr...
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3 weeks ago
45 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
What to do when your kid gives up before they even TRY? #49
In this episode, Jon answers three real parent questions about kids who shut down, melt down, or avoid trying altogether — the moments when, as one child put it, “I’d rather not try than be bad at it.” Through stories, neuroscience, and relatable examples, Jon offers a grounded way to understand the gap between a child’s stress limit and their skill limit, and why “new things are hard” becomes a life-changing mantra for both parent and child. Listeners walk away with clarity, compassion, and ...
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4 weeks ago
46 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
Gift Overload, Meltdowns, And Real Gratitude #48
Episode Summary Jon unpacks why kids often look “ungrateful” or overwhelmed during gift-heavy holidays—and why it has nothing to do with entitlement and everything to do with biology, routine disruption, and emotional overload. Through real parent questions, he explores what’s happening underneath the behavior, why forced gratitude backfires, and how parents can set expectations, model appreciation, and protect connection without trying to manufacture a perfect holiday moment. Listeners walk...
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1 month ago
47 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
Parenting Brilliant, Awesome, Neurodivergent, Kids #47
To support the podcast, head over to Substack and become a monthly or annual paid subscriber. It's the only way Jon gets paid for this. In this episode, Jon answers a parent’s question about neurodivergence and walks through how to think about kids who are more intense, more sensitive, or more easily overwhelmed. He breaks down what neurodivergence actually means, why some kids struggle more with regulation, and what parents can do to support them. Key Topics Covered • Why Some Kids Are...
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1 month ago
52 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
How To Stay Regulated While Your Kids Battle Over A Lego #46
Subscribe on Substack to support the show! Buy Punishment-Free Parenting (Jon's book) now In today’s episode, Jon returns to the show’s original format—raw, unscripted, brain-based parenting questions—this time focused entirely on sibling dynamics. If you have more than one child (or plan to), this might be one of the most clarifying episodes you ever listen to. Inside this episode: Why kids compete… why they fight over nothing… why your nervous system spirals in the cross-fire… and the real...
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1 month ago
51 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
How to Make the Morning Madness Suck Less #45
If your mornings feel like a daily emotional avalanche, lost shoes, floppy limbs, scratchy socks, MELTDOWNS, you’re not alone. In this episode, Jon goes back to the original Whole Parent format and answers real listener questions about morning routines, meltdowns, and the brain science behind why kids fall apart at the exact same time every day. Instead of asking “What am I doing wrong?”, we flip the script: What if the problem isn’t you… it’s the lack of brutal predictability? Jon breaks do...
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1 month ago
41 minutes

The Whole Parent Podcast
Find out YOUR Parenting Type CLICK HERE In this episode, Jon introduces the Seeker parent: the caregiver driven by curiosity, depth, and a longing for what feels real and alive. Centered on the tension between freedom and responsibility, he explores how authenticity can become both a gift and a hiding place, especially when big feelings or obligations feel suffocating. Parents will walk away feeling deeply seen, with language for their restlessness, insight into how emotional intensity shows ...