Starborn Parenting Podcast
Rick Kubina, PhD, and Madeline Jürgensen, PhD, have spent their careers studying behavior. Rick has three children of his own and now two grandchildren. Madeline has two young children. In other words, they live the research at home and teach it for a living. Each week on the Starborn Parenting Podcast, they take decades of behavior research blended with their own personal experience and turn it into tools parents can use that same night. Expect honest stories from their own parenting and grandparenting, including some that ended in frustration and tears, plus straight answers about what drives your child's behavior and how to change it without bribes or threats. They skip the jargon, disagree with each other on air, and never claim to have parenting fully figured out. Instead, they approach family life the way true scientists do: always observing, always testing, and sharing what works so other parents can benefit. New episodes drop weekly.
Starborn Parenting Podcast
Latest Episodes
Is Timeout Bad? A Behavior Scientist Explains
Does timeout work or is it hurting your kid? PhD level behavior scientists Rick Kubina and Madeline Jürgensen break down one of the most common (and most misused) discipline tools parents reach for. You’ll learn what timeout really is, why it’s...
Why Toddlers Hit, Push, and Bite, and What to Do About It
Your kid gets pushed at the park. Or your kid is the one doing the pushing. Either way, the first instinct is to decide someone is the aggressor and someone is the victim, and that's where it goes wrong.Rick and Madeline walk through wha...
Is Social Media Addictive? What the Meta Lawsuit Tells Parents
Meta just agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 29 states over claims that Instagram and Facebook were built to hook kids. Yes, they are actively trying to addict your kids. So what exactly did they agree to change, and what does it tell us ...
The Kid That Nobody Picks: 10 Social Skills That Change That
Some kids get picked first and some get picked last, and it usually isn't personality. It's social skills, which means they can be taught. Last week Rick and Madeline covered the Core 10 for parents. This week they flip it and walk through the ...
10 Social Skills Every Parent Should Model for Their Kids
You have about ten years as your kid's main social teacher, and then the job goes to their friends, their phone, and whoever else shows up. Nobody arrives with social skills built in; kids learn them, which means someone teaches them, on purpos...