Janet Lansbury
Janet Lansbury is a parenting teacher, author of No Bad Kids and Elevating Child Care, and host of Unruffled, sharing a respectful approach to life with babies and toddlers.
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Overview
- Work
- Parenting teacher, author, podcaster
- Training
- RIE Associate and certified Parent/Infant Guidance Class instructor, 1994
- Based in
- Los Angeles
Mini bio
How it started.
Before teaching parents, Janet acted and modeled. After becoming a mother, she felt overwhelmed and found a new direction through Magda Gerber’s RIE classes. She trained with Gerber and qualified as an instructor in 1994.
Finding her audience.
She began her parenting blog in 2009, published No Bad Kids and Elevating Child Care in 2014, and launched Unruffled in 2015. Her work brings respectful parenting into everyday questions about limits, play, and children’s feelings.
What’s next.
Her forthcoming book Baby Person focuses on seeing infants as capable people and building a connection from the beginning. Her official site is offering preorders with a bonus podcast episode.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2027 (forthcoming)Baby PersonAuthor
- 2014No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without ShameAuthor
- 2014Elevating Child Care: A Guide to Respectful ParentingAuthor
Podcasts
- 2015–presentRespectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury UnruffledCreator and host
Quotes
I discovered, unexpectedly, that what I love most is teaching parents.Janet Lansbury, About Me
Reflecting on how studying with Magda Gerber became a new calling.
Trivia
- She grew up as the third of four sisters.
- Her acting breakthrough was playing Nancy Drew at 18.
- She still loves dancing and enjoys jogging on the beach.
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