About Parent-Infant Guidance
RIE®’s signature class brings parents and their babies together to learn about and enjoy their baby’s development, and to see the Educaring® Approach in practice. Guided by a RIE Associate, you’ll be invited to relax, develop your respectful parenting style, and build a relationship to carry you and your baby through life. Classes are for parents of babies 3 – 24 months.
Cost: $205/month
Prices may vary.
For more information: classinfo@rie.org
Who is this class for?
This class is for parents of infants and toddlers, three- to 24-months-old, who want to meet other families and learn more about how to support your baby’s unfolding development. You’ll observe your baby moving, playing, and interacting with peers as they expand their capabilities in the physical, cognitive, and social-emotional realm. If you are interested in growing your toolbox or developing a more intentional parenting style, you’ll learn how RIE gives you the relational and practical skills to support your child as they grow. You can join us for as little as a month (although we recommend a minimum of eight weeks) or stay with us until your child turns two. Many families do! We invite you to join us!
Parent-Infant Guidance Class
With guidance from the relationship-centered Educaring Approach, we observe and explore infant development from infancy to toddlerhood, focus on baby’s capabilities, and address common parenting issues.
- Infant- and toddler-safe environment
- Understanding your pre-verbal baby’s cues and preferences
- Taking a capabilities approach to learning
- Body awareness and self-initiated movement
- Social-emotional learning
- Cognitive development
- Language acquisition
- Realistic expectations and positive development of discipline
- Approaches to learning
“Parenting or raising a child is an impossible profession. The most impossible profession. Number one, we raise children with the knowledge of the past. It’s already obsolete. Because we raise them the way we were raised and what we are learning. And they will live in a future that nobody knows what it will be like. So the whole thing is absurd. And then the question is, if we accept the absurdity, are there certain qualities — human qualities — that will be good for this great unknown future?”
Available classes
- We offer classes for young infants, mobile babies and toddlers. Classes are held in Los Angeles at our RIE centers in Hollywood and Pasadena, and around the globe through our RIE Associate network.RIE Parent-Infant Guidance Classes meet once a week for 90 minutes, and are typically available most days of the week. Classes are available for babies 3 months – 2 years.
- For class schedules and pricing, contact individual facilitators listed below. Scroll down to see Cities, States and Countries where RIE Certified Parent Infant Guidance Classes are currently offered. If we are not in your area yet, click the Contact Link at the top right of the page and let us know about the need in your locale.
- All RIE Certified classes currently offered are listed below. Please check back often as the class list is continuously updated. For detailed schedules, pricing and to register, click the Inquire/Register link for the class of interest to you.
| CALIFORNIA | |||
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Berkeley Jennifer Doebler |
Cupertino Yu Fu |
Echo Park Jill Getto Lee |
Glendale Melissa Coyne Inquire/Register |
Hollywood RIE Center Wendy Kronick Erica Orosco Jill Getto Lee Ida Reid |
Newport Beach Marcela Giannini Inquire/Register
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Novato Jennifer Curtis |
Ojai Liz Memel |
Pasadena RIE Center Ruth Anne Hammond Jill Getto Lee Kira Solomatova |
San Francisco Lee Fernandez Inquire/Register
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Sherman Oaks Deborah Carlisle Solomon Jill Getto Lee
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Tarzana Melani Ladygo Inquire/Register |
| Santa Cruz Lisa Gerber |
Santa Monica Hari Grebler Inquire/Register
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Westwood Deborah Carlisle Solomon Inquire/Register |
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| COLORADO
Boulder Cassandra Ford Inquire/Register |
FLORIDA
Miami Lisa Better
Satellite Beach
Nicole Vigliotti |
INDIANA
Indianapolis Mary Tuttle |
MISSOURI
St. Louis Shannon Carr Inquire/Register |
| NEW YORK
Dumbo and East Village
Leith Speer Barton
Inquire/Register
Anna Ruth Myers
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Greenwich Village, Manhattan Christina Cohen Inquire/RegisterUpper East Side Johanna Herwitz Inquire/Register |
NEW JERSEY
South Orange Angela Fisher Inquire/Register
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PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia Eileen O’Sullivan Inquire/Register
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WASHINGTON, DC
Washington, DC Allison Manuel Inquire/Register
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| AUSTRALIA
Thornlie, Western Australia Emily McDonald Inquire/Register
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CANADA
Ottawa, Ontario
Kumiko Akiyama
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Lethbridge, Alberta Lindsey Hogenson Inquire/Register |
CHINA
Beijing Helen Zhang
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| ISRAEL
Jerusalem Ruth MasonInquire/Register Tel Aviv Ruth MasonInquire/Register
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NEW ZEALAND
Queenstown Sharon Smith Inquire/Register
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SINGAPORE
Singapore Alethia Lee |
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Testimonials
Read what new parents have to say about how RIE Parent-Infant Guidance Class supported them in raising their infants and toddlers.
FAQs about this class
Designed around the baby’s self-directed movement and play, we allow infants and toddlers to freely move, explore, play, and engage with other infants. This is how babies are designed to learn and grow. The classroom includes age-appropriate gross motor equipment that provides opportunities for infants to challenge themselves (if they choose). The RIE Associate respectfully sets limits and facilitates the babies’ interactions, so you can observe their unfolding capability and competence.
Classes are generally organized by stage of motor development and age. Babies who are still lying on their backs are grouped together, as are babies who are able to crawl, and babies who can walk. Age varies. You can learn more by reading the following sections.
This class is for babies lying on their backs, learning to roll over or have rolled over (but not yet crawling).
You and your baby have moved through the newborn phase with days and nights starting to make sense. You’re learning your baby’s language and responding to specific needs and preferences. Now is the time to give your baby opportunities to lay on their back on the floor so they can discover their body and the joy of movement. You’ll learn how to tend to the foundational need for security while supporting optimal movement development. This is the beginning of a new phase of life with your baby where you can enjoy time together and small bits of time apart. You’ll gain community with other parents and your child will enjoy observing, encountering, and interacting with other babies.
This class is for babies who are crawling, standing, cruising furniture and sometimes, newly-walking.
Learn how to support your mobile, pre-walking baby by setting up their environment for safety and learning, discover the benefits of self-initiated movement development, and get a new perspective on diaper-changing and other care activities as the core of nurturing. You’ll meet other new parents and get support for yourself as you develop your own parenting style with the Educaring Approach.
This class is for children who are walking.
The world is different with a walker. You need to recheck your space for safety. Their cognition and feeling life are expanding again and you’ll be working to support their budding independence even though they are still entirely dependent on you. This is an exciting and challenging time as a parent. You’ll gain community with other parents and your child will benefit from social interactions even while their key task is still bonding with you.
Snack: This class includes a banana and water snack that the children may choose to participate in or not.
We encourage people to attend the Parent-Infant Guidance class for a minimum of eight weeks to get to know it, understand the approach, and see the benefits. That said, you can drop at any time. At the RIE Centers, payments are per month. You can attend class for one month or keep going until the youngest child in your child’s group turns two-years-old. Babies and parents benefit from the community-building that happens when groups stay together over time. For many people, this is the most relaxing day of their week.
Our network of Associates offer classes on their own schedules and manage payments in their own way.
Babies are just getting to know the world. We find that babies and parents are best served by being in the same group of children over time. From the familiar faces, they gain security and feel freer to explore and learn. We create intentional groups of families. This is why we ask parents to pay for their weekly class whether they attend or not, and why classes are not transferable.
