Parent Classes Overview

Becoming a parent is one of the greatest changes in a person’s life. We want to give our baby our best! It can be a little surprising to feel so unprepared. At RIE®, we help parents focus on what is essential and give their baby the best possible start. This is what the Educaring® Approach is all about. At RIE, parents learn about and practice the Educaring Approach. They practice being unhurried, sensitive to their babies’ needs, and confident in their ability to provide their baby with natural opportunities for growth. They observe and learn to listen for guidance from within themselves and from their baby. They do less, allowing their baby to learn. Most importantly, they enjoy their babies. They relax. They invest in this time knowing “I will do this now and later reap the benefits.” Parents tell us the Educaring Approach helps them feel more confident, calm, and centered.

Classes for Parents

Learning from RIE Associates online or seeing the approach modeled in a RIE Certified class helps parents make the approach their own. We offer live classes at RIE Centers in Los Angeles, Pasadena, and in locations around the world through our network of RIE Associates. We also offer online classes in a variety of time zones to meet people where they are.

Intro to Educaring
For current and expecting parents, and caregivers

A 3-hour introductory overview of the Educaring Approach. A licensed RIE Associate will review how the Educaring Approach seeks to help parents and professionals build stable, secure, healthy relationships with infants and toddlers, encouraging the children’s natural abilities from the very start.

 

Intro to Educaring® Class
Before Baby
For expecting parents

Learn about babies, how to understand and care for them, and help them adjust to the world. This 8-hour class meets over 3 nights and is offered throughout the year online and live.

Before Baby
Parent-Infant Guidance
For parents of infants or toddlers.

This is an ongoing, weekly, 90 minute in-person class for parent and baby, with the guidance of a RIE Certified facilitator.  Observing your infant develop and interact with other children at the same stage of development helps the parent learn to observe, understand, and support your baby from birth to two years old.

Parent-Infant Guidance
Online Parent Guidance
For parents of infants or toddlers

This weekly synchronous one-hour online class is for a small group of parents to interact with a RIE Certified instructor to discuss and support raising your infant or toddler using the Educaring Approach.

Online Parent Guidance
RIE® Foundations: Theory & Observation
Professionals looking for career advancement and parents seeking in-depth training

A sixty-hour deep-dive into the Educaring Approach that provides 36 hours of in-class shared collaborative learning experiences complemented by extensive outside-of-class observations and self-study.  The course is meant to enable the student to achieve and internalize the Magda Gerber’s Educaring Approach fully.  For those wishing to apply to enter RIE’s apprenticing pathway to become a credentialed RIE Associate, successful completion of this course is a pre-requisite.

RIE® Foundations: Theory & Observation™

Parenting Moments

Parents who have learned about RIE share “aha” moments, little stories of everyday epiphanies where it all made sense.
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