Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW - Expert

Hi, I’m Jody Johnston Pawel. I’m a Licensed Social Worker, Certified Family Life Educator and one of only a few second-generation parent educators in the world. I’m also a top-rated speaker, parenting expert to the media, author of the award-winning book The Parent’s Toolshop®: The Universal Blueprint® for Building a Healthy Family, and the CEO of Relationship Toolshop® International Training Institute, LLC.

My path to becoming a parenting expert started when I was eight-years-old and my parents asked me to help them make audio vignettes for their parenting classes. Without conscious intention, I was led to early professional experiences that brought me to speak to large groups of diverse parents. Once there, I kept listening to what parents wanted, finding solutions they could apply to their unique family’s needs, and sharing them through my writing and speaking.

My knack for collecting information, organizing it, synthesizing it down, and creating systems inadvertently led me to discover a proven plan any parent can use to find personalized solutions in any situation with each of their children. It’s called the Universal Blueprint® Parenting Success System.

What sets me apart from other parenting professionals is this system, which is unlike anything other parenting programs or resources offer. It is holistic, integrating your logic, emotions, and intuition. So you can trust it to reliably lead you to the most effective response in any situation, that is totally customized to your child in that situation in that moment in time.

Once you learn, consistently use and master this system and its tools, you can adapt them to prevent and solve challenges in any relationship! Then you can feel more patient and less stressed, easily decide what to do in any situation, and respond in ways that deepen your relationships with children and adults.

Over the years, my expertise has been honored with remarkable and notable accolades, including awards, rave reviews from the media, excellent ratings for my speaking, and even Emmy nominations for the TV series I co-produced and served as the On-Air Parenting Expert. My advice has been featured in hundreds of radio, TV, print, and online resources that reach parents locally, nationally, and worldwide.

My parenting program has been the subject of many research studies, including a ten-year outcome evaluation study involving thousands of parents who learned the Universal Blueprint® system and found it improved their skills and had lasting results. In the fifteen years since that study, parents have continued to get consistently outstanding results.

Today, I have over thirty years of experience and have worked with over 50,000 parents worldwide, of diverse backgrounds and unique issues. I have also certified more than 100 Parents Toolshop® coaches and trainers worldwide and co-created many programs and resources that address the special issues some parents face, such as single parenting, foster parenting, Christian parents, and more!

What lights me up about my work is knowing that although I may be a parenting expert, YOU are the expert about your child. My ultimate goal is to empower you to think for yourself. So I write articles, such as those here at YourTango, which allow you to become more aware of why a challenge is happening and offer a starting point for what to do. Once you see the results you get in that challenge, you can choose to learn the Universal Blueprint® Parenting Success System for yourself, to prevent and solve any parenting challenge, confidently and competently.

If you are tired of running out of options, over-reacting, falling back on old habits, quick fixes and the frustration of using trial and error, you’ve come to the right place. If you are a proactive, conscious parent, or want to be more of one, I’m passionately committed to supporting you in transforming your good intentions into great results. Seeing you grow and blossom are the emotional paychecks that keep me going.

I invite you to check out my programs and resources, to get to know me better and preview the Universal Blueprint® Parenting Success System for yourself, to see if it might be an approach you resonate with, to help you achieve your parenting goals. Go to: www.ParentsToolshop.com/resources.