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An interactive 4-session parenting series for parents of preschoolers
Understand your child. Understand yourself.
Respond with greater calm, confidence and intention.
Parenting a young child can be both deeply rewarding and surprisingly challenging.
You can know all the right things to do and still find yourself losing patience, second-guessing your decisions, or reacting in ways that don’t feel like the parent you want to be.
Becoming a grounded parent isn’t about becoming a perfect parent. It’s about developing a deeper understanding of your child, gaining a greater awareness of yourself, and learning practical tools that help you respond with more calm, confidence and intention, especially when things get hard.
This four-session series brings together parenting education, self-reflection, positive parenting tools and coaching to help you do exactly that.
Join Marta D. Weiss, M.A., J.D. and fellow Kids By The Sea preschool parents on a 4-week journey of reflection, connection, and learning how to become a more grounded version of the parent you want to be.
Using a combination of effective parenting tools, journal prompts, coaching, and in-depth discussions to troubleshoot your unique dilemmas, Marta will guide you through an experiential journey to bring more clarity, knowledge and intention to your parenting and your relationship with your children.
4 focused sessions · 6.5 hours total · Small group · In-person in Encinitas
What Makes This Series Different:
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UNDERSTANDING
Learn about child development, temperament and the individual needs behind your child’s behavior.
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REFLECTION
Explore your own parenting patterns, triggers, expectations and experiences, and how they influence the way you respond.
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LEARNING & PRACTICE
Learn positive parenting techniques and practical tools for connection, communication, boundaries, cooperation and managing challenging behavior.
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COACHING
Bring your real-life parenting challenges to class and receive guidance and coaching as you work through them.
Join Today
September 2026 Cohort - Registration Open
September 2026
4 focused sessions, 6.5 hours total
Sessions: Wednesdays, 5:30pm - 7pm or Saturdays, 9:30am - 11am
Wednesdays 5:30pm - 7pm
Meeting Dates:
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Sep 23 (opening session is 2hrs - 5:30pm - 7:30pm)
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Sept 30, Oct 7, Oct 14 (90 min each, 5:30pm - 7pm)
Saturdays 9:30am - 11am
Meeting Dates:
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Sept 26 (opening session is 2hrs, 9:30am -11:30am)
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Oct 3, Oct 10, Oct 17 (90min each, 9:30am - 11am)
Pricing
$320/person, $480/couple
(includes educational materials)
Additional Information:
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The first meeting will be 2hrs. The remaining 3 sessions will be 90min each.
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Subsidized childcare will be offered if there is enough interest from participating families.
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Unlimited email support and brief phone support available for the duration of the class series.
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This series was created to build knowledge over the 4 sessions. Single-session sign-up is unavailable at this time.
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Each group requires a minimum of 5 participants (or 3 couples) and is limited to 10 people.
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Individual coaching and private workshops available at a discount to any series graduates. Visit the Private Parenting Series for more information.
About The Parenting Series:
Parenting toddlers and preschool-aged children often asks us to grow and change alongside them. As we learn to attune to our children’s needs, we may also discover that we need to (re)attune to ourselves and to the values that guide our parenting.
In Becoming a Grounded Parent, you will have the space to learn, reflect, and integrate your own thoughts, feelings, and experiences around parenting. You will deepen your understanding of children’s developmental stages and temperaments, learn positive parenting approaches and practical tools, and explore what effective communication and boundaries can look like with preschool-aged children.
You will also have the support of a trained professional and a community of fellow parents as you explore the unique influences that shape—and sometimes get in the way of—how you want to parent.
We are surrounded by messages about how we should parent—from social media, experts, family, friends, and our own childhood experiences. Parenting information is abundant and easy to access, but we often have little time to pause and consider what we truly believe, what works for our individual child, and how we want to show up as parents.
This parenting series offers an opportunity to step back from the day-to-day demands of parenting, reflect, learn, and gain greater clarity about the parent you want to be.
The 4-Session Journey:
This isn’t just another parenting class.
Parenting advice is everywhere. What’s harder to find is a space where you can step back, understand what’s happening beneath your parenting patterns, learn practical tools, and get support applying them to your own family.
Session 1
Understand Your Child
2-hour opening session
What is really going on beneath the behavior?
We’ll explore child development, temperament, individual differences and the needs behind your child’s behavior.
You’ll begin developing a framework for understanding your child rather than simply applying generic parenting advice.
Session 2
Understand Yourself
1.5-hour session
What gets activated in you when parenting gets hard?
We’ll explore your own parenting patterns, expectations, triggers and experiences — and how they can shape the way you respond to your child.
This isn’t about blaming yourself. It’s about gaining the awareness that gives you more choice.
Session 3
Learn, Practice & Become More Grounded
1.5-hour session
What can you actually DO differently?
This is where understanding turns into practical parenting.
You’ll learn and practice positive parenting techniques and tools designed to help you:
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strengthen connection and cooperation
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communicate more effectively
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set clear, respectful boundaries
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respond to challenging behavior
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navigate big emotions
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reduce power struggles
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support your child’s growing independence
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stay grounded and regulated while parenting
We’ll also explore how these tools work together with what you’ve learned about your child and yourself — so that you’re not simply adding more techniques to your parenting toolbox, but learning when, why and how to use them.
Session 4
Bring It Home
1.5-hour session
This session brings everything together.
You’ll have the opportunity to bring your own parenting dilemmas into the group, troubleshoot challenging situations, receive coaching, and develop a personalized approach you can continue using at home.
We’ll revisit the concepts and tools from the series and explore how to adapt them to your child’s temperament, your family’s dynamics and the situations you find most challenging.
You will be parenting for the rest of your life.
Invest in yourself as a parent now.
Parents who have participated in the past have overwhelmingly reported feeling more grounded, more confident, and more supported in their parenting.