3 Ways to Lift Your Parenting Spirits (with Loryn Brantz)

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

JLML Press

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Loryn Brantz is an Emmy-winning author, illustrator, and mom of two, who once built puppets for Sesame Street. Loryn joined Janet on a previous episode of "Unruffled" to talk about parenting a child with disabilities, sharing the joys and challenges of her journey with honesty and her signature warmth and wit. Her new book "Poems of Parenting" is a funny, touching, and totally relatable collection about her ups and downs raising kids, the awkward and sometimes difficult moments she's come to cherish, and ultimately how she's come to embrace her role as a parent.

Janet's "No Bad Kids Master Course" is available at NoBadKidsCourse.com.

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1:01.3	Hi, this is Janet Lansbury.
1:03.6	Welcome to Unruffled.
1:05.5	I guess today is a person who could be hugely intimidating
1:09.3	if she weren't so kind and down to earth.
1:12.9	Lauren Brantz, she's an uber-talented young mom of two children who's also an author and
1:18.9	illustrator. She was a builder and designer at Jim Henson's workshop, creating props and puppets for
1:24.5	PBS and Sesame Street, and for the latter she won two Emmy Awards
1:29.2	for outstanding achievement in costume design and styling. She's also created successful
1:35.6	web comics and a series of delightful board books for children that I've been collecting for my
1:41.3	future grandchildren. Lauren joined me on the podcast a couple of years ago for the episode.
1:46.6	It had to be you, the struggles and joys of raising a child with disabilities, where we discussed
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