Learning about parenting shouldn’t be a challenge. It should easily fit around your busy schedule. You should have access to the material you need, when you need it. 

What is Peace In Your Home?

It’s an Online Parenting Fundamentals Course based upon a nationally-recognized parenting course, Redirecting Children’s Behavior (RCB).  It will teach you techniques that will enable effective parenting, including developing and clarifying clear expectations, staying calm in the midst of turmoil when your child gets upset, consistently following through with positive and negative consequences, being a positive role model, and role playing corrective behaviors.

To register, click here.

How does the course work? Do we all log in at once, or can we do it at our leisure? Does it start at a specific time?

A new module will be released each week (the same day of the week you signed up for the course). It doesn’t start at a specific time. You can login to the site anytime throughout the week to watch the videos, read the lessons and post in the forum as many times as you would like.  In case you can’t watch them all that week, once a lesson is released it will be available for the duration of the course.

Only the live Q&A calls and webinars will be at a set time. They will be announced via email and in the forums. Calls from previous courses have been recorded and will be released with the rest of your weekly module.

If you can’t make a live call, we will post the recording on the site for anyone that couldn’t make it. If you think you won’t be able to make the call, but you have a question, there will be a page on the forum for you to ask questions that we will make sure get answered during the call. Then you can listen to the recording and get your answers on the schedule that works best for you!

There will be homework assignments, but they will be fun and are designed to include the entire family!

Can I watch the videos more than once?

You can watch the videos as many times as you would like! Also, if you don’t get to them in the week they are released, you can watch them anytime for the rest of the course. Once content is released, it stays open.

When the modules are released, will they just show up where we log in?

Yes, when you login you will be directed to the lessons and the forum.

What is a parenting forum?

It’s a part of our site designed to capture great discussion and stories. It’s just like a forum on a regular website, but is just for our students. This way, our parents can share with each other in a safe, understanding environment.

I don’t live in San Diego, is that ok?

Absolutely! That is why we moved to this online format. I have so many amazing students that have moved all over the country and world (a parent from Greece and one from Italy already signed up for the course!) Because the lessons are all online and the call will be posted too, you can participate when, where, and how it works best for you.

I took the live Redirecting Children’s Behavior (RCB) course with Susie 6-months ago, is it too soon to take this refresher?

Not at all! There’s a lot of amazing information taught during the class, and if you’re like me, it’s hard to capture everything I learned and put it into practice consistently. It helps to have consistent reminders of the information over a longer period of time to really get RCB’s parenting style fully integrated into your family. I also have parents that end up with much more advanced questions once they have integrated all the lessons into their families, but by then the course is over and they don’t have me and the other parents in the class around to answer their new questions. That’s another reason we’re incorporating the Q&A calls.

I haven’t taken RCB in years, or I’m recommending it to a friend of mine that has never taken an RCB class before. Will the course be too advanced for us?

No. The course is designed to be applicable to all levels. All the basics of RCB are taught in a way that will introduce it to new RCB parents and refresh it for experienced RCB parents.

What Can I Expect To Learn?

The course content is going to be delivered in 9 core modules.

• Module 1 – Focus on Your Child – In this module, we’re going to introduce you to the broad themes of the course, as well as introduce some of the most important core concepts of redirecting your child’s behavior. You’ll find that some of the practices you may have been using are not that effective and that what makes a really successful parent is practical. The idea is to learn how your child responds to different situations and how your response to him can affect the entire exchange.
• Module 2 – Acting Out – This module goes deeper into the reason behind a child’s misbehavior. We will learn about why they are fighting and how we can create a Win-Win Resolution.
• Module 3 – Focus on You, the Parent – We devote this full module to YOU. You will learn what type of parent you are, what tools are available to you, what message you are really sending to your children – and something most parents overlook – how to take care of yourself in your busy schedule.
• Module 4 – Encouragement – (The Lifeblood of your family ) In this module, we’re going to explain the difference between encouragement and praise, show you ways to avoid discouraging your child, and teach you to use THE MOST VALUABLE TOOL for really connecting with your child – the Encouragement Feast.
• Module 5 – Boundaries – This is not a module about setting rules. There is an important difference between dictating rules and setting boundaries for your child. We’re going to look at how to set healthy, safe, and important boundaries that will teach your child, rather than restrict her. In addition, we will discuss how to handle a situation where a child violates one of these boundaries in a way that will enhance your relationship, rather than alienate your child from your point of view.
• Module 6 – Mistaken Goals, Part 1 – A mistaken goal is the reason a child is acting out – they believe that their behavior will cause you to give them what they want. There are 4 primary Mistaken Goals. These are so important that we will be breaking them out into 2 weeks. During this module we will learn about the mistaken goals Attention and Power.
• Module 7 – Mistaken Goals, Part 2 – Following up from the previous week, we will concentrate on the mistaken goals Revenge and Inadequacy.
• Module 8 – We All Want To Be Important – One of the tenants of Democratic Parenting is that, no matter the age, we all want to feel important. Nobody responds well when they are told they can’t do something because of a limitation over which they have no control. There are ways you can help your child feel powerful and valuable.
• Module 9 – Handling Flare Ups– No matter how loving a parent you are, there will always be flare ups. Children are learning and growing, which means testing boundaries and and making mistakes are all part of learning how to ultimately self manage. In this final week, we will show you techniques that will help you handle your children’s melt downs.