Welcoming the Waves of Emotions
Set limits with confidence and calm
How to set a limit, hold it, and stay with your child through the big emotions that follow.
Respectful Parenting with Kristin Mariella
For parents who are thinking “there must be a better way.”
Start with my free e-book on setting personal boundaries with your kids, so you can protect your peace just as well as you protect their safety.
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New live workshop
The Child Who Feels Everything
By Kristin Mariella
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Supporting highly sensitive, strong-willed children without losing connection.
Doors open Monday 16 November. The waitlist hears first.
What parents are saying
★★★★★
Simply transformational.
Kristin, thank you for sharing your own personal parenthood journey with us along with your deep reflections and the research you have done along the way. This course was an absolute joy to watch. Kristin’s calm sophistication and sense of humour make her very likeable. I love that this course liberates you from a very regimented mode of parenting that a lot of us experienced as children. 3 days in and my daughter is already a happier child. she has noticed a difference and she’s only 2 years old! I will keep coming back to this course as long as it takes for the message to become the norm in my own household.
Mariam Ahmad
★★★★★
Loved every word, every example, every story. Thank you!
Just finished the course and I definitely feel empowered and ready to continue parenting in this beautiful way. Thank you, Kristin, for your kind spirit and calm presence. The way you conveyed your research, experience and advice was so easy to understand and I could literally feel a pressure lifting from my shoulders... This pressure we all feel to do it perfectly, to make our kids "behave." But this method makes me feel free to connect to my child on a level that I know in my soul is the way to really be, the way to really love and guide these tiny beings that are mirrors of ourselves. My husband and I started to watch it again together this time and I am excited for him to experience and learn too. Every parent should do this course, the world would be a much more peaceful place if so. Thank you, thank you!
Lane Matthews
★★★★★
AMAZING AND INSPIRING
Kristen gives you everything you need to succeed in being the parent you want to be - the course is comprehensive, well organized, informative and inspiring. I loved every minute of it and feel so much more confident moving forward as a new parent. Couldn’t recommend this course any more - definitely 5 stars!!!!!
Felicia Trager
Courses you can start tonight
You don’t have to parent your kids the way you were parented.
Join the 12,000 students who have taken these manageable, easy-to-fit-in courses that help you respond with respect instead of reacting without thought.
Siblings: managing conflicts and building the sibling bond
From referee to facilitator
Rivalry, fights and comparison, and how to step out of the referee role.
Siblings: helping your child adjust to the new baby
A gentle start for your older child
Preparing your older child and getting through the first year together.
How old is your child?
You won’t find any shaming or striving for perfection around here.
Respectful Parenting is not about being perfect. It’s about being humble enough to admit when you’ve made a mistake and courageous enough to make it right.