The voice behind a new conversation about parenting.

Award-winning

Author

Speaker & Media Commentator

Based in Auckland, New Zealand

Challenges conventional parenting advice

Not behaviour management. Capacity. Jacqlin helps audiences understand what's driving behaviour rather than simply trying to control it.

Makes complex psychology practical

Simple, memorable frameworks parents can immediately apply in everyday family life.

Honest, funny and media-friendly

Raw conversations without shame or judgement that leave audiences thinking differently about parenting.

Parenting is the core of humanity

Parenting isn't simply about raising children. It's the human system that shapes leadership, education, business, health and every future generation. Jacqlin brings a fresh perspective that reframes parenting as one of the most influential systems shaping humanity.

Short bio

Jacqlin Richards is an International #1 bestselling author, award-winning Parenting Alchemist, speaker, mother of two, and founder of the Resourced Parenting Method™.

Through her book F*ck Up Your Kids with Grace & Humour: The Truth About Parenting, speaking, and workshops, Jacqlin is leading a new conversation about parenting. One that recognises parenting as the human system shaping families, leadership, education, business, and the future of humanity.

Her message is simple: your kid isn't the problem. What's driving you is.

Medium bio

Jacqlin Richards is an International #1 bestselling author, award-winning Parenting Alchemist, speaker, mother of two, author of F*ck Up Your Kids with Grace & Humour: The Truth About Parenting, and founder of the Resourced Parenting Method™.

Recipient of the 2025 Women Changing the World Gold Award for Adult Education and Training, Jacqlin is leading a new conversation about parenting. One that moves beyond behaviour, blame and parenting strategies to explore the patterns, conditioning and nervous-system survival states that quietly shape the way we raise humans.

Her message is both confronting and hopeful: your kid isn't the problem. What's driving you is.

While much of the parenting world focuses on changing children's behaviour, Jacqlin helps parents understand themselves. Through her bestselling book, workshops, speaking and community, she helps people interrupt inherited patterns, build emotional capacity, repair relationships and raise emotionally resourced, resilient humans.

Jacqlin believes parenting isn't simply about raising children. It is one of the most influential human systems shaping leadership, education, workplaces, relationships and the future of humanity. Change parenting, and everything downstream begins to change.

Long bio

Jacqlin Richards is an International #1 bestselling author, award-winning Parenting Alchemist, speaker, mother of two, and founder of the Resourced Parenting Method™.

Recipient of the 2025 Women Changing the World Gold Award for Adult Education and Training, Jacqlin is leading a new global conversation about parenting. Not simply as the way we raise children, but as one of the most influential human systems shaping the future of humanity.

Her work begins with a simple but confronting premise: your kid isn't the problem. What's driving you is.

While much of the parenting world focuses on behaviour, strategies and getting parents to do better, Jacqlin goes underneath behaviour. She helps parents recognise the inherited conditioning, reactive loops, nervous-system survival states and unresolved experiences that quietly shape the way they love, lead, protect, rescue, control and relate to their children.

At the heart of her work is the understanding that parenting is not primarily a behaviour problem. It is a capacity problem. Parents often know exactly how they want to respond, yet still find themselves yelling, shutting down, rescuing, controlling or repeating patterns they swore they would never pass on. Awareness alone is not enough. We cannot consistently access capacities we have not yet developed.

Grounded in lived transformation rather than theory, Jacqlin blends nervous-system awareness, intuition, humour, radical self-responsibility and practical tools that help parents interrupt reactive patterns in real time. Rather than striving for perfection, she invites parents to understand what is driving their reactions, take responsibility without collapsing into shame, repair when they get it wrong, and build the internal capacity to choose differently.

Through the Resourced Parenting Method™, Jacqlin helps parents move beyond one-size-fits-all advice and externally imposed parenting rules to develop greater emotional capacity, self-awareness and trust in their own inner knowing.

Her internationally bestselling book, F*ck Up Your Kids with Grace & Humour: The Truth About Parenting, has resonated with parents around the world by challenging the traditional parenting conversation. Rather than offering more techniques for managing children, it asks a deeper question: what is happening inside the parent?

Today, Jacqlin speaks internationally about parenting, leadership, education, generational change and human development, arguing that parenting is not a side conversation. It is the human system that underpins the fabric of society. The way we raise humans shapes everything that follows: our relationships, our workplaces, our schools, our leaders, our communities and our future.

Through her books, speaking, workshops, coaching and community, Jacqlin is building a movement of people willing to understand themselves more deeply, interrupt inherited patterns, and raise emotionally resourced humans capable of creating a very different future.

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Most parents don't realise they're not simply reacting to what is happening in the moment, they're reliving the past. We're told to be patient, get it right, and raise "good kids." But beneath the pressure, guilt, control and constant second-guessing, something deeper is shaping the way we parent: inherited beliefs, emotional conditioning, unconscious reactions and nervous-system survival states that keep old patterns repeating.

Because your kid isn't the problem. Neither is the world we're living in. What's driving you is. This book offers a different way forward. Not more strategies. Not more pressure. A path back to yourself. Through the Resourced Parenting Method™, it shows parents how to meet what is actually happening with greater truth, presence, intuition and capacity. This is the shift from reaction to relationship. From survival to connection. From lead to gold.

Raw, funny, confronting as hell and full of heart, it invites parents to take responsibility without collapsing into shame, allow themselves to be human, repair when they get it wrong, and build the internal capacity to choose differently.

This book is not about perfect parenting. It is about becoming a more conscious, resourced, and truthful human being, so our children inherit more freedom than fear.

Jacqlin Richards has made a bold and important contribution to the parenting conversation.

When a parent changes the place they are parenting from, the child receives a different world. That is the quiet revolution inside this book.

This book has dirt under its fingernails. It has tears in it. It has laughter in it. It has the quality of someone who has entered her own fire and returned with something useful.

One-page media sheet

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