Practical parenting without the shame spiral.
Raising Good Humans is a warm advice show about making family life more workable without turning parenting into a performance. Episodes move from common pressure points, such as screens, mealtimes, backtalk, and morning chaos, toward small habits parents can actually try.
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Raising Good Humans is a parenting advice show with a steady, family-centered sense of purpose. Its core promise is practical support for raising children without losing the relationship in the process. Dr. Aliza Pressman often begins with a recognizable moment: a child refusing to get off a screen, a tense dinner table, a teenager pushing back, or a morning routine collapsing before coffee. From there, the show widens the lens. Screens and ultraprocessed foods become a discussion about dopamine, willpower, and the design of the home environment. Chores and calendars become a lesson in autonomy, mistakes, and letting children build competence by actually doing the work. Backtalk becomes less about winning a respect battle and more about staying connected while still holding a boundary. The show has a strong coaching rhythm. It repeats key ideas in plain language, then brings them back to small changes, such as removing devices after dinner, talking through household responsibilities, or making mealtime less focused on bodies, bites, guilt, and control. Expert interviews bring in subjects like status, influence, emotional health, mindfulness, and nervous-system regulation, but the tone rarely turns academic. The emphasis stays on what a parent can do in the next ordinary moment. Solo episodes are especially direct, often structured around lists, tips, or a single family problem that many households quietly recognize. The show also occasionally steps outside its usual frame, as in the episode with Papa Jack sharing a Holocaust survival story, where family memory and moral inheritance become part of the larger idea of raising children well. Raising Good Humans is warm, careful, and nonjudgmental. It is not especially edgy or fast. The sponsor presence can be noticeable, sometimes interrupting the emotional flow. Still, the show’s strength is its ability to make parenting feel less like a private failure and more like a set of relationships, routines, and repairable patterns.
Made for: This show suits parents and caregivers who want research-informed guidance for everyday family friction, especially around connection, routines, screens, food, emotions, and boundaries. It is best for listeners who like calm explanation and practical coaching more than debate or entertainment.
What sets it apart: Raising Good Humans stands out by translating developmental psychology and expert interviews into specific household moves. Its advice stays close to ordinary family scenes, so abstract ideas about regulation, autonomy, status, and connection become easier to use.
As a parent, do you ever wish someone could just whisper some realistic and trustworthy support in your ear? And not make you feel awful for not having all the answers? Well, that’s what I’m here for. I'm Dr. Aliza Pressman, developmental psychologist, parent educator, asst. clinical professor, and co-founder of both Mount Sinai Parenting Center and SeedlingsGroup. And I'm a mom... trying to raise two good humans myself, so I'm in this with you! In each episode, we'll go deep (but brief) with both experts and parents to share the most effective approaches and tools and talk about the important bigger picture of raising good humans. My goal is to make your parenting journey less overwhelming…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
A developmental psychologist works through specific friction points, mealtime tension, morning routines, status and respect, using concrete scripts instead of general advice.
Raising Good Humans stays inside the parenting hub, presented as a developmental psychologist working through the specific moments that trip parents up rather than a general child-rearing survey.
You want parenting advice that starts with your nervous system, not a shame spiral.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear, practical dopamine reframe that turns screen struggles into a question of household design.
Raising Good Humans takes up a familiar family problem: screens and ultra-processed foods that keep pulling children back for another hit. With Dr. Aliza Pressman, biologist Michaelene Duclaff makes dopamine less about pleasure than about wanting, craving, and repetition.
A steady guide to making family logistics shared, with children learning responsibility through practice and repair.
Family logistics become the real subject here: not as a parent-only burden, but as something children can gradually learn to see, plan for, and carry. Dr.
A grounded look at status as a parenting resource, from peer feedback to the moment a child resists advice.
Status turns into a parenting question here: how children learn to earn respect and influence without making approval the measure of their worth.
A grounded episode about creating enough space to respond when parenting frustration takes over.
Parenting overwhelm gets a bodily, practical frame in this single-episode conversation, which moves from a brief meditation into the mechanics of a frustration loop. Dr.
A calm developmental reset for parents trying to make meals feel connected, steady, and less pressured.
Dr. Aliza Pressman gives mealtime tension a calmer developmental frame, treating eating as a basic need that can pick up bad memories, body-image strain, judgment, and pressure around the table.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
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