Jon Fogel
Jon Fogel, known online as Whole Parent, is a parenting educator, author, and podcast host who turns child development research into practical ways to handle big feelings and build connection.
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Convergent BooksOverview
- Known online as
- Whole Parent (@wholeparent)
- Work
- Parenting educator, author, podcast host, and pastor
- Family
- Father of four
- Education
- Master of Divinity, North Park Theological Seminary
- Breakout
- Short parenting videos on TikTok, where he began posting in February 2022
Mini bio
How it started.
Whole Parent grew out of Jon’s own effort to parent differently. Becoming a father overlapped with seminary counseling classes, foster parent training, and the loss of his dad to cancer. Those experiences pushed him to question the discipline he had grown up with and study other ways to respond to children.
Finding his people.
Jon says he started on TikTok in February 2022, initially talking about religion before turning toward parenting. In a later interview, he recalled reaching 200,000 followers within a couple of months of sharing his parenting approach. His short videos made ideas from child development easier for other parents to try at home.
Beyond the short videos.
His first book, Punishment-Free Parenting, arrived in January 2025 with a foreword by Tina Payne Bryson. Set My Feelings Free followed in April 2026, with illustrations by his wife, Jess. He also hosts The Whole Parent Podcast, where he answers parent questions and talks with guests about family life.
Still practicing.
Jon describes his family as the place where he practices what he teaches. Alongside his parenting work, his publisher identifies him as senior pastor at Hope Covenant Church in Orland Park, Illinois, and a former hospital chaplain in the Chicago area.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2026Set My Feelings FreeAuthor; illustrations by Jess Fogel
- 2025Punishment-Free ParentingAuthor
Audiobooks
- 2025Punishment-Free ParentingNarrator alongside Tina Payne Bryson
- 2024Raising Securely Attached Kids by Eli HarwoodContributing narrator
Quotes
My family is the place where I’ve learned everything I teach.Jon Fogel, Whole Parent website
In his introduction to Whole Parent, Jon describes how daily life with his wife and children shapes his teaching.
Trivia
- Jon and his wife were both in marching band in high school. He recalls offering her a ride home from practice.
- He records The Whole Parent Podcast on his Chicago porch, with a heater for the cold.
- He told the Child Psych Podcast that he loves audiobooks and has a reading disability.
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