Understanding RIE: For Grandparents Online Webinar

This warm, participatory workshop’s goal is to help grandparents understand the RIE philosophy of Educaring that their children are following with their infants and toddlers. The RIE philosophy can surprisingly reveal your grandchildren and reassure you of the child’s competence and capability. This workshop will help you understand your children’s parenting practices and what your grandchildren are used to. The relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, and parents and children, is vital and this workshop will enhance the love and connection you all share. Find tickets here

RIE® Associate, Ruth Anne Hammond (Pasadena, CA) is the author of Respecting Babies: A Guide to Educaring for Parents and Professionals 2nd Edition (Zero to Three, 2009, 2019). Having been mentored by Magda Gerber, Ruth Anne works with parents and professionals in the US and abroad. A past President of RIE, she served on the board of directors for 22 years and continues to support the organization through committee work. As Sr. Adjunct Faculty and Master Teacher in the Infant/Toddler-Parent Program, she taught at Pacific Oaks College and Children’s School from 1996 to 2014. She currently serves on the board of Families Forward Learning Center as Chair of the Programs Advisory Committee. She is a longtime member of researcher and psychologist Allan Schore’s Right Brain Study Group and spends so much time with her nose in a book that when her 4-year-old grandson calls, he doesn’t say, ”Hi.” He says, “Nai Nai, are you reading?”