4 Weeks to a More Satisfying Home Life

Learn the simple, doable techniques for a less stressed, more connected family life with the structure and community to actually make it work for your life

Open to all WWS parents and caregivers!

There’s no denying it: raising kids today is too often just overwhelming.

There’s just too much stuff, too much information, too many choices, and too little time to make sense of it all - and that’s just how the adults feel, imagine what it’s like for little kids who are still developing their prefrontal cortexes!

All of this gets in the way of building close family bonds and can make kids anxious, create behavioral problems, and generally disrupt their healthy development and growth.

Thankfully, Simplicity Parenting offers evidence based, field-tested and proven methods for reducing this overwhelm and the problems it creates so that you can create the family life you’ve always dreamed of.

What You’ll Get

Less:

  • Physical, mental, and emotional clutter - getting in everyone’s way

  • Stress on your kid(s), yourself, and anyone else in the family

  • Emotional outbursts and challenging behavior to manage

  • Judgement or feelings that you’re not “doing parenting right”

More:

  • Connection and closeness among family members

  • Peace and stability in the home

  • Enjoyment from parenting and time with your kid(s)

  • Confidence and satisfaction in your choices in parenting

  • Support from a trained facilitator and from other cool parents going through similar things and aiming for the same goals

This is not an instructional course on how you should parent

If we want to feel embarrassed or ashamed about our parenting decisions, there are plenty of opportunities for that on our social media feeds or maybe even within our own families!

We live in a world that is decidedly not set up for nurturing, attentive parenting - in fact, much of the time it feels like it is designed for us to fail. All of us have been forced to make parenting choices we didn’t like and have done things that we know are not in the best interest of our kids or have even been directly opposed to how we want to parent. Beating ourselves up over this is not going to get us anywhere or help our kids.

This is an opportunity to gain the resources and support needed to adapt and build the family life you and your kids deserve

Even though we parents are put in an impossible situation, there are things we can do to improve home life for everyone in the family. Many of them are simple and relatively small changes that can make a big difference.

But doing them takes courage, perseverance, and patience.

This class provides the knowledge base and broad principles for making effective improvements in your home life, plus the nurturing and supportive environment to work together with other parents to determine how to translate that material into goals, strategies, and actions that meet the realities of our own lives in the real world.

What Parents Say

  • “The Simplicity Parenting Class should be a required course for all parents. There is an expression that kids don’t come with an instruction manual. This class is the instruction manual. I found that the material applies to other aspects of life including business.”

    Brian, dad of two

  • "It can feel daunting to take on a text and implement changes in your daily rhythm, but Drew's course helped us to make movements towards the kind of harmony and growth we’d always aimed for. We also loved that the class made it easy to maintain our personal values and ideals. "

    Sarah, kids’ ages 5 and 3

  • "Drew Sample's facilitated course on 'Simplicity Parenting' was outstanding. His deft approach to combining the insightful content of Kim John Payne with engaging discussion among the parents produced a superb learning environment. We now approach our children with more empathy, operate with a more conscious and constructive rhythm at home, and have removed from our lives some of the activities and possessions that were disorienting our family."

    Jamie, kids’ ages 12 and 6

  • "I woud highly recommend the Simplicity Parenting course to anyone seeking practical ways to bring simplicity and balance into their daily family life. One of the highlights of the course was the engaging discussions with other parents, which provided a valuable opportunity to gain different perspectives and insights. The material presented in the course offered excellent practical strategies that I found easy and useful in introducing Simplicity Parenting principles into my own family. Overall, the course was enriching, enlightening, and has made a positive impact on our family dynamics."

    Remy, kid’s age 6

How It Works

The group meets in person at Washington Waldorf School over 4 weeks on Saturday mornings and is open to caregivers of all identities - moms, dads, nonbinary, and non-parent caregivers.

In the meetings we will review together expert content on establishing simplicity in your home from Kim John Payne and will discuss in groups how we can adapt and integrate the principles into our lives.

Couples can attend sessions together, alternately, or in whatever way works best for your family.

When: Saturdays from 9 to 11am (May 11, May 18, June 1, June 8)

After registering below, you’ll receive invitations to reserve the space on your calendar.

To participate in the course you must complete registration by also purchasing the group participant materials from Simplicity Parenting ($30). Couples may share materials and you will have access to them for 1 year. A link to purchase these materials will be sent once the group is confirmed.

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About Your Facilitator

Drew Sample is a dad of two, founder of The Fatherhood Circle, and an official Simplicity Parenting Family Life Course facilitator. When he is not tending to the immediate needs of his own family, he helps parents and caregivers find the structure and support they need to be at their best with their families and provide the family life they desire and deserve. He can generally be found outside rather than inside and is a certified Guide in peak performance, consciousness , and culture with The Flow Genome Project.