Simplicity Parenting with Mary VG

I recently heard Mary’s two-​part presentation on reducing sibling rivalry and found her tips to be extremely beneficial. Her concrete strategies are helping me to diffuse fighting, competition, and comparisons at home. I now use life-​affirming (her term, which I love and will now coin) words to pour into my children during disagreements, know when to intervene and when to let my boys navigate through the conflicts, and can be intentional every step of the way! Thank you Mary, for your humorous, insightful and practical advice!

Thank you, Mary! Your class was inspiring, empowering and just plain fun. You took us on this journey and we feel like better people for it. As first time parents, we have stumbled through the first three years of our son’s life and it has often felt like it’s been a greuling battle to keep the worldly din at bay in order to let our son flourish into his own person. Your class truly made us realize that we are trying to do the right thing and regardless of how the rest of the world is run, it’s up to us to make the hardest decisions we’ll ever have to make because we’re making them as parents. Thanks for giving us more skills and strategies to keep going!
Live Life, Laugh Often, Love Unconditionally!
The McDaniels.

Loved this class.
It helped me to rediscover the book, «Simplicity Parenting» which just makes so much sense! And then helped me to implement a lot of the practices. I loved Mary’s approach to group discussions and how she was able to facilitate the group to go deeper into what they could do to enact the smallest of changes to get to the larger life change. Baby steps, as they say.
The class was empowering. It was uplifting to be in a group of women experiencing the same parental challenges and working together, whether through shared experiences or through group discussion, to come up with positive approaches.

This workshop helped me transform my parenting into an experience of more ease and grace. I learned to techniques to make changes that really «stick» and ways to connect more fully with my children and spouse. I also discovered how simplicity can allow magic into our family life. I highly recommend this workshop to parents or potential parents. My only regret is that I didn’t take it earlier…