Simplicity Parenting Discipline and Guidance Parent Groups
with Teddie van Pelt
Based on the book "The Soul of Discipline" by Simplicity Parenting author Kim John Payne, Discipline and Guidance Parent Groups are about making parenting easier and more fulfilling for your entire family.
About Discipline and Guidance Parent Groups
Simplicity Parenting Discipline and Guidance Parent Groups bring together small groups of like-minded parents to explore and discover new ways of dealing with the challenges of providing loving but firm discipline and guidance to our children.
The Simplicity Parenting approach to discipline is based on understanding a child’s needs and developmental stages, and seeks to provide guidance through coming together and strengthening a family's values rather than through conflict and punishment.
Parent Groups are led by a Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and are held in person when possible or virtually through interactive video calls, and there are three different classes offered, based on the age of your child: “The First Nine Years,” “The Tween Years (9-13),” and “The Teen Years (14-19).”
In-person classes consist of three gatherings of approximately 2-1/2 hours each. Virtual classes typically consist of more gatherings of shorter length.
Tuition for the classes can be found at nurturedinseasons.co.nz, and pre-registration is required. (Participant Materials are included in the tuition.)
If you'd like to be informed when the next class opens up, please click the button below to send us an email and let us know which class you're interested in (First Nine Years, Tweens, Teens). We’ll add your name to the interest list and let you know as soon as registration opens.
If you have any questions, please see the FAQ below and/or CLICK HERE to send us an email.
Otherwise, thank you for your interest, and we hope to see you in an upcoming class!
About Teddie van Pelt
Kia ora. My name is Teddie. I am a mother to two active, outdoor- loving children.
When I had my firstborn, I stumbled on a 10- week parent-infant course that taught parents to build peaceful partnerships with their children through mutual affection and respect. It positively challenged the things I knew about parenting from my own culture and has guided me and my husband with raising our family.
Married to a Dutchman, we adapted the 3Rs of Dutch Parenting- Rust (Rest), Reinheid (Cleanliness) and Regelmaat (Routine) but we added another R- Respect… respecting the children’s natural development and giving them the same respect as we would give an adult. Reading the Simplicity Parenting book affirmed the principles we follow in raising our children. It reassured us of our conscious decision to let our children be children… unplugged from all the screens and connected to themselves, family and others, and nature.
Fortunate to receive the right information at the right time in our parenting journey, I founded Nurtured in Seasons (NIS) to pay forward the compassion that I received from others as a parent and to inspire mindful, positive parenting through simplicity. NIS is a parenting coach service which provides parents support through the different seasons of parenthood via antenatal and Simplicity Parenting classes, and individual coaching.
I am also a registered New Zealand Speech-language Therapist and have completed my post-graduate studies on Family Life and Child Development at the University of the Philippines.
When I am not busy baking or gardening with my children, you will find me at the beach- chilling out or freediving, or at the pool- either teaching swimming or playing underwater hockey.
About The Soul of Discipline
In this groundbreaking material, parenting expert and acclaimed author of the bestselling book Simplicity Parenting, Kim John Payne, M.Ed., flips the script on children’s challenging or defiant behavior and lays out an elegantly simple plan to support parents in establishing loving, age-sensitive boundaries that help children feel safe and settled.
Payne gives parents heartwarming help and encouragement by combining astute observations with sensitive and often funny stories from his long career as a parent educator and a school and family counselor.
Practical and rooted in common sense, The Soul of Discipline gives parents permission to be warm and nurturing but also calm and firm (not overreactive). It gives clear, doable strategies to get things back on track for parents who sense that their children’s behavior has fallen into a troubling pattern.
Best of all, it provides healthy direction to the entire family so parents can spend less time and energy on outmoded, punitive discipline and more on connecting with and enjoying their kids.
And Parent Groups are the best way to bring the material to life in your family.
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