The Parent Hope Podcast
Episodes
Real Questions, Grounded Reflections for Ep 1: Children’s Exposure to the Online World — What Parents Are Still Wondering
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this first Real Questions, Grounded Reflections episode, Jenny and David Brown slow down the conversation following the Parent Hope interview with ...
When the Internet Gets There First: Restoring Steadiness So Children Can Recover Well with Dr Marshall Ballantine-Jones
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When children are exposed to confronting sexualised online content, parents can be left reeling—worried about the impact, unsure what to do next, an...
REBROADCAST: Parenting with Purpose: How Goal Setting Impacts Family Life
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In setting the tone for this repost, Jenny Brwon highlights why she thinks this conversation endures: Phil Klever’s long-term research shows that th...
REBROADCAST: Let Them Be: Resisting the Rush to Pathologise Adolescence
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In opening this repost, Jenny Brown highlights this episode as a standout for its clarity and compassion. Briony Scott’s reminder to see teens as em...
REBROADCAST: Being a Lighthouse: Parents Bringing Steadiness and Calm in the Storm of Self-Harm
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In introducing this repost, Jenny Brown points to Dr Anne-Maree Bickerton’s lighthouse metaphor as one of the most transformative ideas for parents ...
How Self-Leadership Helps Parents Navigate Australia’s New Social Media Rules
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Australia begins new social media age restrictions, many parents are feeling the pressure to tighten control or worry about what this shift will me...
Respecting Differences, Staying Connected: Navigating Holidays Without Losing Yourself With Dr. Kathleen Smith
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The holidays can bring out our best—and our most anxious—selves. Therapist and author Dr. Kathleen Smith (True to You; Everything Isn’t Terrible...
Grandparenting Without the Drama: How the generations can work together, not pull apart
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Grandparenting can be a gift—or a point of tension—depending on how generational differences are navigated. In this episode, Jenny Brown speaks wi...
Parenting Beyond Worry: Breaking Cycles & Building Hope this Mental Health Month
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As parents, our worries can quietly slip onto our children’s shoulders.But what if there’s another way?This Mental Health Month (in our State: NSW...
Let Them Be: Resisting the Rush to Pathologise Adolescence with Dr. Briony Scott
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Briony Scott, renowned educator and advocate for young people, to unpack the growing tendency to pathologise nor...
Partners, Not Strangers: How to Build a Positive Relationship with Your Child’s School
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores how parents can become confident, empowered partners in their child’s education. Through insights from an educator and head of...
Q&A: Reclaiming Calm Leadership in the Digital World
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you help teens to raise their own awareness to the impacts of their screen addictions and to motivate them to stop doing it if they're ref...
Reclaiming Calm Leadership in the Digital World
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this timely episode, facilitator Vicki Wilkins interviews Dr. Jenny Brown — founder of the Parent Hope Project — to explore how parents and e...
Bridging the Gap: Parents Relating Positively to their Child’s Mental Health Service
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bridging the Gap: Parents Relating Positively to their Child’s Mental Health ServiceIn this episode, Jenny Brown and Dr Annemaree Bickerton explor...
The Parent Balancing Act: Supportive Parenting without Overdoing It.
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore a modern parenting paradox: how to be a supportive parent without overdoing it. Joining us again is researcher and family ...
Being a Light House - Parents bringing steadiness and calm in the storm of self-harm
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discovering that your child is self-harming is understandably fear- inducing for any parent. Drawing on Bowen family systems theory, PHP invites paren...
Parenting with Purpose: How Goal Setting Impacts Family Life
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Goal setting – how parents setting applicable goals helps a family to functionIn this first episode of 2025, Jenny Brown interviews Philip Klever, a...
REBROADCAST: How Bowen Family Systems Builds Hope for Worried Parents
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this rebroadcasted episode, from Season 2 Episode 7, Jenny is back in the hosting seat with guest Dan Papero.Dr Jenny Brown draws on Dan’s rich e...
REBROADCAST: Co-regulation or Self-regulation in Parenting
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Rebroadcast of Season 2, Episode 5, the tables are turned! Michelle Varcoe, interviews Dr Jenny Brown to discuss:The importance of co-regulati...
Sharing a Thought: Treatment can make things worse (3 of 3)
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recent studies have found that several of these programs not only failed to help young people but also made their mental health problems worse. Jenny ...
Sharing a Thought: Always more than genetics and brain wiring (2 of 3)
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny reflects on parents' questions about why they would need to be involved in addressing a child’s symptoms if it is from the child’s gene...
Sharing a Thought: The problem is not the problem (1 of 3)
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny shares some thoughts on how the way we respond to a concern is more impactful than just focusing on the content of the issue. We can research pr...
Season 2 Ep 10: Challenging the Parenting United Front - Parents can't always be on the same page
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jenny Brown delves deeper into Differentiation-Based Parenting, exploring how this approach extends beyond the parent-child relations...
Season 2 Ep 9: Cultivating Connection & Independence: Part 1
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jenny Brown introduces a title for the Parent Hope Project's parenting approach. Part one of this series asks the question: Is t...
Season 2 Ep 8: Engaging the Challenge of Children’s School Avoidance
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the podcast, Dr Jenny Brown sits down with Clinical Psychologists Ahmed Tohamy and Samantha Pilcher to explore the challenges of sc...
Season 2 Ep 7: How Bowen Family Systems Builds Hope for Worried Parents
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode Jenny is back in the hosting seat with guest Dan Papero. Dr Jenny Brown draws on Dan’s rich experience as a Bowen family systems sch...
Season 2 Ep 6: Limit Setting and Responding to Children’s Misbehaviour.
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the tables are turned again as Vicki Wilkins, the Parent Hope Project Professional Programs Coordinator, interviews Dr. Jenny Brown. ...
Season 2 Ep 5: Co-regulation or Self-regulation in Parenting
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode the tables are turned! Last week's guest, Michelle Varcoe, interviews Dr Jenny Brown to discuss:The importance of co-regulation i...
Season 2 Ep 4: Tantrums, Sleep Issues and Exhaustion - Staying Steady (enough) during the Early Parenting Years.
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode Jenny and Guest Michelle Varcoe discuss tantrums, sleep issues and exhaustion - staying steady (enough) during the early parenting yea...
Season 2 Ep 3: Marriage and Parenting - It Takes More Than Love
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Jenny will discuss Marriage and Parenting with a seasoned family therapist, author, Father and Husband, Arum Nadigel. With a ...
Season 2 Ep 2: Managing Extended Family Stress Without Adding to Parenting Worry
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we will discuss an important finding from Bowen family systems theory: parents can detour our troubles onto our children. This is desc...
Season 2 Ep 1: How parents can partner with schools to increase student and family confidence.
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode of the Parent Hope Podcast Jenny Brown explores “How parents can partner with schools to increase student and family confidence”...
(2023 Rebroadcast) Adolescents: Independence on Steroids
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Summer Theme - Parents promoting responsible, age-appropriate independence & avoiding futile power struggles. These themes are relevant, what...
(2023 Rebroadcast) Toddler in meltdown: The first push for independence
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Summer Theme - Parents promoting responsible, age-appropriate independence & avoiding futile power struggles. These themes are relevant, whate...
Episode 15: Parenting Courses – Are they worth the effort? Lessons from an experienced Community Parent Educator
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will discuss parenting courses with a family skills community educator. We'll explore what parents get out of carving out tim...
Episode 14: Parents connecting with their adolescents
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Jenny as she asks Marie Vakakis what she has learned from her young clients about their relationships with their parents.Parents connecting wit...
Episode 13: Grandparenting Relationships
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode of the Parent Hope Podcast Jenny Brown explores Grandparenting with Selden Dunbar Illick. They discuss what makes for flourishing “...
Episode 12: Parenting with a Backdrop of Trauma and Adversity - How this affects building confidence in parenting
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Jenny talks with Dr Linda Mackay on parenting with a backdrop of trauma and adversity and how this affects building confidence in pare...
Episode 11: When Parents Undermine Each Other
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast explores a common tension between parents about how each responds to a struggling child. One parent reacts with more nurturing and the ot...
Episode 10: Is there such a thing as a calm parent?
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Jenny discusses with Dr Kathleen Smith the challenges and opportunities for parents managing fears and anxieties.What are the challeng...
Episode 9: Parents Becoming Good Observers of Themselves
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jenny Brown will be in discussion with Lauren Errington sharing stories of working with parents who are worried about 1 or more of th...
Episode 8: Staying Connected When Emotions Run High
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jenny Brown interviews renowned Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr Annemaree Bickerton about her work supporting parents managing t...
Episode 7: Raising Kids Who Care - What is Within a Parent's Influence?
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Jenny Brown interviews Susy Lee, prize-winning author, speaker, and educator. They discuss Susy's prize-winning book 'Raisi...
Episode 6: Young Adults - The challenge of launching
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Parenting doesn’t end when a child leaves school. In fact, parenting can become even more complex with young adults, especially if they are struggli...
Episode 5: Parenting Children with Special Needs
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Jenny Brown explores the challenges of parenting Special Needs children – neurodiverse kids or children with a biological impairmen...
Episode 4: Adolescents - Independence on Steroids
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adolescents present unique challenges for parents. For example, the reactive push for independence can be triggering for parents. In this podcast, Jen...
Episode 3: Pre- teens – Busy Parent, School Challenges and Screen Time
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Jenny talks about the pre-teenage phase, parents' worries about school performance, and the impacts of excessive screen time. Ho...
Episode 2: The Early School Years - Dealing with Separation
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's podcast discusses parenting in the early school years. In particular, how parent's managed themselves with a shy child. The interact...
Toddler in meltdown- The first push for independence
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this series Dr Jenny Brown conveys how each phase of a child's development presents parents with opportunities to step back and consider their...
New Podcast Coming Soon!
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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