MOMS OFF MUTE
MOMS OFF MUTE is a podcast about Raising Digital Kids. Real Conversations with and for Modern Parents. Hosted by Mom Jordan Bivings Glover from the Family Online Safety Institute. Every season takes a fresh approach to the conversation.
Episodes
11 episodes
Teen "Gambling" Apps, Password Rules, Class Parents and the Village That Remembers the Names with Cindy Smith and Jana Folmert
This week she is joined by returning guest Jana Folmert, who brought a friend: Cindy Smith, a mom of a 15- and 13-year-old who is not an expert, just figuring it out like everyone else.Cindy shares the rules that actually hold in her hou...
Mom Creators, Co-Parenting, and Who Decides When Your Kid Gets a Phone with Dara Whitley and Jana Folmert
This week Jordan is joined by Dara Whitley, a mom creator based in the Dallas area, alongside returning guest Jana Folmert. Both are single moms raising boys, and both have very different answers to the same questions.The conversation op...
Dating in the Digital World: Three Generations, One Very Complicated Swipe with Jana Folmert and Deja Fowler
Dating used to mean someone picked you up at the door and your parents knew what movie you were seeing. Now it happens in group chats, private Snaps, and apps that change the rules every few months.This week Jordan is joined by two retur...
COVID Grads, Headphones on Hikes, and the Village Gen Z Missed Out On with Deja Fowler
This week Jordan sits down with Deja Fowler, FOSI's spring intern and recent college graduate, for a generational look at what it was really like to come of age during COVID.Deja opens up about a high school graduation that never quite h...
Baby Monitors, NICU Moms, and When to Turn the Camera Off with Leslie Pedder
This week Jordan is joined by Leslie Pedder, Moms Off Mute's very own podcast producer, mom to a nearly-two-year-old, and the rogue friend who saw Bruno Mars without her. Jordan brings receipts.The real conversation gets into baby monito...
From Sims to Smartphones: 20 Years of Digital Parenting with FOSI Founder Stephen Balkam
This week Moms Off Mute welcomes its first dad, and it's the one who started it all. FOSI Founder and CEO Stephen Balkam joins Jordan for a full-circle conversation about raising two daughters through the dawn of the digital age, and now watchi...
Digital Consent, Promposals, and What Teens Don't Owe the Internet with Guest Jana Folmert
Jana Folmert is back for round two, and this conversation goes deeper into the reality of raising a teenager in a culture where everything gets filmed.Jordan and Jana get into the promposal problem (yes, some kids only accept if the post...
Best of Season 1, Clip 2 — Screen Time, Mom Guilt, and Naps in the Closet
A Best of Season 1 highlight from Moms Off Mute. In this clip, Jordan gets honest about the daily balancing act of digital parenting when you have two little ones with very different tablet habits.From the potty training years to the tab...
Best of Season 1, Clip 3 — Before You Judge That Mom Handing Her Kid a Screen
A Best of Season 1 highlight from Moms Off Mute. In this clip, Jordan gets real about the assumptions we make when we see a mom handing her kid a screen in public.From a stressed-out mom of three at the nail salon trying to get through t...
Best of Season 1, Clip 1 — Why Is Your Sonogram on Instagram?
A Best of Season 1 highlight from Moms Off Mute. In this clip, Jordan digs into one of the most common (and most overlooked) moments of digital parenting: the sonogram post.From the moment a pregnancy is announced, a child's digital foot...
From Firewall to Mentor: Single Parenting a Teenager in the Digital World with Guest Jana Folmert
Welcome to Season 2 of Moms Off Mute! New format, same honest, fun, unfiltered conversations. This season, Jordan is joined each week by a different parent to talk about what digital parenting actually looks like at their stage of life.F...
