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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.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
40 minutes
English
United States
16 episodes
since July 2, 2026
episodic
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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 so easy to overuse, which behaviors it’s meant for, an…
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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 what's actually happening when toddlers hit, push, and…
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 about how these apps work on our kids? Rick and Madelin…
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 Core 10 social skills your child needs.The 10…
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 purpose or by accident. In this episode, Rick and Madeli…
Why doesn't my 3 year old listen? Why does my toddler hit and throw things? Rick and Madeline take three real posts from struggling parents and break each one down using behavior science.
Inside: the four questions to ask before you react, the four functions of behavior, why "opposition…
The Surgeon General just called screen time a public health crisis, yikes! Rick and Madeline break down why screens outcompete everything else in your kid's life. Note, it's the same variable-reinforcement schedule that runs a slot machine. They also talk about what works instead: changin…
Sticker charts get a bad rap, but the problem usually isn't the chart. Rick and Madeline break down token economies: bribe vs. reward, the four decisions that build a working system, and the six mistakes that quietly kill it. Plus chimpanzees, punch cards, and a one-week homework assignment. W…
The follow-up to Sofia and Christina in Ep. 7. Rick and Madeline zoom out: how common picky eating is, what the research says about outgrowing it, why it happens, and three strategies parents can start tonight. Closes with red flags and when to get help.
Growing up, Sofia only ate a handful of foods. Then as a young teenager, with high school coming and anxiety building about eating at friends' houses, she did something surprising: she asked for help. Sofia and her mom Christina, a board-certified behavior analyst, join us to share how food ex…
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