Draft:Jen Lumanlan

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• Comment: A subject can't generate their own notability, it requires other people to discuss the subject independently and with significant coverage. So for example the SF Chronicle story is (a) brief and about something completely different to the subject and (b) interview led. See the WP:GOLDENRULE and ideally we need three examples of this. For WP:NAUTHOR then we need 2 books, 2 book reviews each. Here there is 1 book, and 3 reviews but those reviews don't appear to be fully independent critiques, more publisher/press release style outputs.
  There are signs of AI being used - some wording is very much AI style - and those sections need to the reworded by a human being. ChrysGalley (talk) 08:52, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Jen Lumanlan is an American parenting educator, podcaster, and author. She is the founder and host of Your Parenting Mojo, a podcast that examines academic research on parenting and child development, and the author of Parenting Beyond Power: How to Use Connection and Collaboration to Transform Your Family—and the World (2023).^[1]

Lumanlan was raised in England and moved to the United States at age 18.^[2] She earned bachelor's degrees in forestry and English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in environmental management from Yale University.^[3] She subsequently worked in sustainability consulting.^[3]

After the birth of her daughter, Lumanlan returned to graduate school, earning a master's degree in psychology with a focus on child development and a master's degree in education.^[3][4] She has said the decision was prompted by uncertainty about how to raise her child and a wish to ground her parenting decisions in published research rather than instinct.^[3]

Before Your Parenting Mojo, Lumanlan worked in sustainability consulting, first as Director of Client Engagement at Climate Earth and subsequently as a Sustainability Consultant at Accenture.^[3] During her time at Climate Earth she co-authored a book chapter on carbon footprint methodology with Corinne Reich-Weiser, Carter Brooks, and Sangwon Suh.^[5]

Lumanlan founded the podcast Your Parenting Mojo as a way of sharing what she was learning in graduate school with other parents.^[3] The show is grounded in non-violent communication and a "needs-based" framework, examining topics in parenting and child development through academic research and expert interviews. ^[6]

Your Parenting Mojo was included on Choosing Therapy's list of the best parenting podcasts, where it was described as a resource for parents who want clinically grounded information without having to read academic journals themselves.^[6]

The technology and lifestyle website Lifehacker named Your Parenting Mojo the "Best Research-Based Parenting Podcast" in an article by Meghan Moravcik Walbert.^[7] Moravcik Walbert had encountered the podcast through a guest appearance Lumanlan made on another parenting podcast, One Bad Mother.^[7] She contrasted Your Parenting Mojo with shows built around hosts commiserating about the difficulty of parenting, writing that Lumanlan's show is suited to listeners who want direct, research-backed answers rather than general reassurance.^[7] At the time of the review the podcast had more than 100 episodes, covering subjects such as picky eating, tantrums, attachment, sensory processing disorder, and talking to children about race.^[7] The article noted that Lumanlan regularly interviews subject-matter experts and cites academic sources in her show notes, giving listeners a way to research topics further on their own.^[7]

An episode of the podcast on white privilege in parenting was cited by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Otis R. Taylor Jr. in a column written in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.^[8]

Beyond the podcast, Lumanlan operates a coaching and membership-based business offering workshops and a paid membership program built around the same research-based, needs-focused approach to parenting.^[9] She is trained as a co-active coach.^[10]

In September 2023, Sasquatch Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, published Lumanlan's first book, Parenting Beyond Power: How to Use Connection and Collaboration to Transform Your Family—and the World.^[1] The book argues that conventional discipline methods teach children to accept and later replicate power-over relationships, and proposes an alternative model based on identifying and addressing both a parent's and a child's underlying needs.^[1] Lumanlan contends that how children are treated at home shapes how they will engage with broader social structures as they grow up, and that collaborative parenting can interrupt those patterns.^[1]

The book received reviews in several trade publications. Library Journal summarized its argument and noted that it pays particular attention to children who are neurodivergent.^[11] Publishers Weekly reviewed the book favorably overall, while noting that some of its arguments connecting parenting behavior to systems such as white supremacy and patriarchy were not always clearly drawn, and concluded that the book's guidance would still be useful to parents looking to move away from punitive discipline. ^[12] Booklist praised the book's practical tools and conversation scripts.^[12]

Lumanlan lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and daughter.^[2]

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