Parenting
for parents who are thinking "there be a better way."
must
Respectful
You deserve peace,
balance, and harmony
at home.
And not that crushing guilt because you lost your temper again when you so desperately wanted to stay peaceful and calm. For goodness sake, you love your kids so freaking much, but you’re out of sync, the household feels off-balance, and you find yourself doing things your parents did that you hated and swore you’d never do.
Every night as your head hits the pillow, you promise yourself that tomorrow will be better and you’ll try harder to stay calm — yet the cycle only begins again.
But it doesn’t have to be this hard. There’s another — guilt-free — way of raising your children, different from the parenting style you grew up with. One that prioritises respect and empathy — and lets you hold strong boundaries. And once you learn it, those guilt-ridden nights will be a thing of the past.
"The moment I realised that
how I was reacting to my kids behaviour
had more to do with how I was FEELING
than what my kids were DOING
was the moment I understood
that my main job as a parent
had to be to keep myself emotionally healthy."
—kristin mariella
Kristin
Mariella
Hi, I'm
and if I could tell you one thing about respectful parenting, it’s this:
it makes everything feel better.
As a Respectful Parenting educator, I always hear frustrated parents say that they have the best of intentions, but then, in the heat of an emotion-filled moment…
When their child has been crying for what feels like hours, angrily throwing anything they can get their hands on, and screaming for more TV time even though they were given a warning that it’d be turned off soon— their own triggers take over and all the ways they want to react and meant to react go right out the window.
& that’s where Respectful Parenting fits in, for those self-aware, intentional parents who desperately want to break out of unhealthy patterns and become the parent they wished they had growing up.
Respectful Parenting strikes the perfect balance between firm confidence and unconditional love and support — not as strict as the old school, authoritarian parenting and not as inconsistent as the new age, permissive parenting.
After a decade of working with parents, I know that this is exactly what we’re ALL looking for:
A transformational approach to raising your children that fundamentally reframes your perspective and allows you to parent mindfully and respectfully.
AS SEEN IN
Respectful
Parenting?
SO, WHAT IS
In the most simplest words, Respectful Parenting is about treating your children like people — with the same respect, importance, and positive regard as you would like to be treated. We try our best to see the world through our children’s eyes and learn what their immature behaviour actually means.
In doing so, this approach teaches us how to hold space for the authentic child, support their emotional intelligence and self-regulation skills, and set clear, confident limits while protecting their sense of self-worth.
And to help us actually put these concepts into practice, the respectful approach requires us to hold up a mirror to ourselves. In doing so, we’re bringing radical awareness to our own feelings and triggers, understanding where our reactions stem from, and beginning to respond with the mature confidence, respect, and mindfulness we know our kids deserve.
Respectful Parenting prioritises 3 core concepts:
RESPECT
TRUST
CONNECTION
You don’t have to parent your kids the way you were parented.
RESPECTFUL PARENTING COURSES
Join the over 12,000 students who have taken these manageable, easy-to-fit-in courses that help you respond with respect instead of reacting without thought.
Welcoming The Waves Of Emotions
This foundational best-selling course is designed to be the ONLY course you need on setting empathic limits, handling your child's big emotions in a way that supports their emotional intelligence, and handling your own big emotions.
SETTING LIMITS WITH CONFIDENCE & CALM
Join over 16.000 parents who have taken this!
Helping Your Child Adjust to a New Baby
For the parents who are expecting, or have recently welcomed a new baby into the family, this course helps you handle your child's emotions during this exciting and transitional time.
SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS
Managing Conflicts And Building The Sibling Bond
A necessary course that introduces the driving forces behind sibling rivalry, giving you the full picture on sibling dynamics. You’ll walk away with tools to help you instantly reduce tension between your kids and foster a stronger sibling relationship.
SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS
“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.
- Lane M.
“A common understanding and language.”
Not only did this give us a common understanding and language for how to handle the waves of emotions in our household, it also gave us a time to connect and reflect upon our parenting.
- Sofia P.
“Not succeed, not win, just simply enjoy.”
Short, precise, to the point and very informative … it definitely left me feeling empowered and motivated to ENJOY motherhood.
- Zaira F.
Can you imagine enjoying your coffee in peace, with no tiny hands pulling at your pant legs or little voices demanding your immediate attention?
Nope, it’s not too good to be true. Setting personal boundaries is just as important as setting the non-negotiable boundaries that you set around your children’s safety.
Both because it teaches your children the importance of setting personal boundaries in their own life and because, well, you’ll be able to enjoy your coffee in peace. Among many other things.
If this is something you struggle with, I’ve got an e-book for you to help you feel much more comfortable setting these boundaries.
personal
boundaries
e-book
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Giving you all the tools to keep in your back pocket so you — and the entire family — can thrive through the ups and downs of parenthood.
THE
Sometimes I Cry,
Sometimes I Laugh
A children's book you and your child can learn from together.
Something as abstract and layered as emotions can be tricky for children to fully comprehend: You can cry when you’re happy and sad? It’s ok to be sad sometimes? Laughing isn’t always funny?
This book gets down to your child’s level to show them that all emotions are good and it’s okay to feel them.
And in doing so, it models respectful communication and empathic limit setting for you, and any other caregiver in their life, so you can better support them as they discover and work through their own emotions.
one book,
two covers!
You won’t find any shaming or striving for perfection around here.
Instead, what you will find is a whole lot of encouragement to accept your authentic self, learn from your mistakes, and forgive yourself for your imperfections.
Because 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. It’s just as much about parenting yourself as it is about parenting your children.