It's a course that is offered via the internet, using recorded audios, written lessons, and pdfs with practical assignments. You can download most of the materials, so this gives you an easy, self-paced way to engage with readings, lectures and meditations, plus reading assignments from Dr. Laura's book (which we send you) and a supportive online forum, all from the comfort of your own home!

Immediately!

As soon as you register, you will receive a Welcome email with everything you need to get started on the Course right away. You can see changes before bedtime tonight!

The next course begins on Thursday, August 1, 2024. As soon as you register, you will receive an email with everything you need to begin the Course immediately. Most parents see positive changes by bedtime!

During the 12 weeks of the Course, your audio lecture and five daily inspiration meditations for each week will be released on Thursday mornings (Eastern time), along with accompanying handouts, homework assignments, journaling prompts, guided meditations and other resources. 

This is a self-paced course, so you can work with each week's materials at your own pace. You have access to the online forum for as long as this course is offered, which should be long after your child (or children) are grown.  You can download the materials, and you can repeat the Course any time it is offered -- for free!

Great! We're using it as the text for this Course, so you'll want to review it. But during registration, you'll have the opportunity to substitute Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings instead. And if you already have both of these books (or you only have one child so you don't need the Sibling book), you can upgrade to the Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids WORKBOOK for a small additional charge (because it costs more for us to get it to you). Have all three books? Wonderful! You still get a book with the Course. They make great gifts!

(If you're located outside our delivery zone (USA, Canada, UK, Australia), then you received a credit off your payment for this Course to purchase Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids yourself. You definitely need this book to get the most out of this Course, so if you have any problem locating a copy, please let us know and we will help, at: Assistant@AhaParenting.com)

If you're located inside our delivery zone (USA, Canada, Australia, UK), we'll send you a free copy of  Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids. (If you already have it, you will have the opportunity to substitute one of Dr. Laura's other books at checkout.) It will take us a week or so to get your book to you, but don't worry. We'll give you a pdf of the first part of the book so that you can begin reading as soon as you register.

If you're located outside our delivery zone, then you will receive a credit off your payment for this Course to purchase Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids yourself. You definitely need this book to get the most out of this Course, so if you have any problem locating a copy, please let us know and we will help, at: Assistant@AhaParenting.com.

No worries. If it's been longer than 2 weeks since you registered, and you had the book shipped to a U.S. address, we can track it for you. If your book is being shipped outside of the U.S. (Canada, Australia or UK), we can tell you when it was dispatched. Just submit a support request and we'll get your book to you.

If you're located outside our delivery zone (U.S., Canada, Australia, UK), then you received a credit off your payment for this Course to purchase Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids yourself. You definitely need this book to get the most out of this Course, so if you have any problem locating a copy, please let us know and we will help, at: Assistant@AhaParenting.com

If you're located outside our delivery zone, then you received a credit off your payment for this Course to purchase Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids yourself. You definitely need this book to get the most out of this Course, so if you have any problem locating a copy, please let us know and we will help you! Write to: Assistant@AhaParenting.com

Thank you for your interest in accessing all the course materials at once! We completely understand the desire to move ahead quickly, especially when you have heard how effective this Course can be in transforming family dynamics.

However, this course is designed after much trial and error with a step-by-step structure that’s crucial for it to work for you.

The coaching and discipline strategies Dr. Laura teaches in the later weeks are deeply rooted in the principles of self-regulation and connection that she teaches in the earlier weeks. Without building these foundational skills first, the approach to coaching and discipline will not be as effective -- you may even feel like it doesn't work! That's because coaching is based on connection and requires parental self-regulation. It does not work until you are using the connection and self-regulation skills effectively.

This Course packs a tremendous amount of learning into each week, and the skills taught each week require a great deal of practice. There is no way to "master" self-regulation and connection in less than a week of concerted effort. So it would be a mistake to rush ahead into future weeks before spending focused time on the early weeks. Each week’s content builds upon the last, ensuring that by the time you reach the later weeks, you are fully equipped with the tools and mindset to use the coaching strategies in a way that works.

Again, we understand that you want to change things quickly. The way to do that is to focus on the foundational first steps, which we guarantee will create change, and then build on those. If you participate on the Course Facebook group, you can see that engaging fully with the first three weeks of the Course is transformative. Dr. Laura has been teaching this Course for many years, and no one ever says that the pace of the material should be faster; in fact, most parents review the Course several times to really master the material!

Yes! All of the lectures and meditations in the Course can be downloaded for offline listening. It's easy, and we give you detailed, step-by-step instructions.

The only exception is a bonus you get in Week 12, which is two special audios from Dr. Laura's Audio Library. Like Netflix, audios from this Library can only be streamed, not downloaded. So you will need to listen to your special bonus audios when you are online, but you will have ongoing access to them, along with the rest of this Course, long after your children are grown, so that you can listen to them at your convenience!

This is a self-paced course, so that's no problem. Each week, we have a different focus, and the topics build on each other. If you miss a session, you can access all the course recordings and other materials on your own account page on the Aha! Parenting website. This is the beauty of this format, especially for parents. You can work with this course material at the time that is most convenient for you and your family. Many people self-pace and take a full six months to complete the course. Some people finish it and immediately begin it again.

Never! You have access for the life of the Course (and Dr. Laura doesn't plan to stop teaching it until long after your child is grown!) You can even opt in to take the Course again any time it is taught -- for free. And you have ongoing access to the private Facebook Forum for as many years as you want after you take the Course, at no additional charge.

Yes! We have a private Facebook forum, available only to parents who are participating in this online course or who are past graduates of it. That means that you can continue to be part of this group long after you take this Course -- and it is so helpful that you will probably want to!

This is a wonderful community for parents to ask questions, share successes and frustrations, and give each other support and encouragement. Dr. Laura trained and supervises the admins of this group, but it's designed primarily as a way for parents to support each other. You'll be invited to join beginning in Week One of the Course.

Once of the best parts of this Course is that you have unlimited access to this forum (and the rest of the Course); it does not expire. We have people in the forum who have been participating since they took the first Course Dr. Laura offered, in 2016! 

In Week 12 of the Course, you'll also have a chance to listen to recordings of some of the most common questions asked by parents, with Dr. Laura's answers. Many parents say they learn so much from listening to other parents' questions and answers -- and often their own question is answered.

The usual cost of this 12-week course is $199 USD. But to make these tools more affordable for parents, the price has been reduced to $167 USD. The price of the Course is expected to go up in 2025. 

The course includes 11 weekly audio lectures and transcripts, 60 short daily inspiration audios, audios and ebooks that are available for sale on the Aha! Parenting website but are given free to course participants, an ongoing private Facebook Forum that doesn't expire, and various bonus audio interviews and "how to" videos, as well as one copy of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids mailed to you if you are in our delivery zone (USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Australia) or a credit to buy your own copy locally if you are outside our delivery zone. 

All lectures and meditations are downloadable so you can listen off-line. And your enrollment in the Course never expires -- you can retake this Course again for free at any time!

Many of the bonuses in the Course, such as Dr. Laura’s audio on Preventive Maintenance and her interview with Dan Siegel, are exclusive to the Course and are not available anywhere else. The audios, ebooks and mini-courses given as bonuses in the Course that are for sale on the Peaceful Parent Happy Kids website are indicated below with a price. There are several excerpts from the PPHK Workbook, which sells for $24.99. The final bonus, two audios from the Success Path Membership Library, is only available with a subscription to the Success Path Membership ($199/year). 

Please note that these are only bonuses. The Course itself is valued at over $1000 without any of these bonuses!

Week 1: Getting Started with Peaceful Parenting

• Lifetime access to Facebook support group with moderators trained and supervised by Dr. Laura.
• Printable: 13 Secrets To Engage Cooperation.

Week 2: Parental Self-Regulation

• 8 minute audio: Troubleshooting the Respectful Voice Chart
• Printable: Your Child’s Brain When You Stay Calm
• Printable: Stop Drop Breathe

Week 3: Connection

• Laughter Videos

Week 4: EQ

• "Helping Your Child with Anger" audio.  This is part of the “Help Your Child Learn To Manage Anger” mini-course, which sells for $69 on the website.

Week 5: Beyond Discipline

• 2 Videos about discipline from Dr. Laura
• Excerpt from the Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook called Teaching Repair. This pdf will help you support your child to use reflection, repair, and responsibility to make amends when they go off-track.
• Handout on Kids' self regulation written by Stuart Shanker, the author of Self-Reg.

Week 6: Preventive Maintenance

• Audio on preventive maintenance that goes into depth about scheduled meltdowns.

Week 7: Transition to Peaceful Parenting

• Self Compassion for Tough Moments -Audio 
• Exclusive: Dr. Laura Markham interviews Dr. Dan Siegel about emotion in young children.

Week 8: Self-Care

• The Secret of the Full Cup Workbook - $5.99 USD
• Self-Care Ideas from Parents – excerpt from PPHK workbook

Week 9: Mastery

• Printable: Using Healthy Encouragement instead of conventional praise. (PPHK Workbook excerpt)
• Six articles from Dr. Laura with practical strategies to help you put this week's ideas about developing Mastery into practice in your home.

Week 10: Self-Healing

• Self-healing for parents- article
• Body Scan Meditation
• Healing Shame Meditation
• Healing Grief Meditation

Week 11: Siblings

• Our first Bonus this week is 4 excepts from the Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook. While these are all relevant to all parents because they deal with parental regulation, connection and coaching, they all also relate to Siblings.
• Our second bonus is 4 videos to support you in navigating Sibling issues. These videos will help you transform sibling tensions, so you can stop the fighting and raise friends for life! What causes sibling rivalry /How to intervene in a sibling fight / How to heal resentment between siblings / What parents can do to prevent and heal sibling rivalry.

Week 12: Putting It All Together

• Choose two Q and A recordings from Dr. Laura’s Q & A Library
• Repeat the Course for free every time it is taught!

It's true that most intensive parenting courses that are three months long and give you lifetime access, with an ongoing forum that you can use for years after you take the Course, and with so many exclusive audios and bonus materials, are priced much higher. But Dr. Laura wants to get these tools and ideas into the hands of as many parents as possible, so she purposely keeps the price as low as possible.

To maintain the lowest price possible, we ask that you not share your log-in info or Course materials beyond your household.  As features are added to the course and to cover costs, the price may go up somewhat, but Dr. Laura is committed to keeping it affordable for as many parents as possible.

Yes! A certain percentage of spaces are always available for partial scholarships. To apply, please fill out our Scholarship Application. Please submit a support request if you have any questions.

Great! Many course participants live outside the US. Peaceful parenting is a worldwide movement. Welcome!

If you live in a country where it is challenging for us to ship a copy of the book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids to you, we will indicate that to you at checkout and give you a discount, so that you can buy the book yourself locally. You definitely need this book to get the most out of this Course, so if you have any problem locating a copy, please let us know and we will help you! Write to: Assistant@AhaParenting.com

Kids who have special needs will be a handful for most parents, whether those needs are sensory issues, health issues, a diagnosis of being on the spectrum, or attachment issues from adoption. These parents need as much support as possible.

Will Peaceful Parenting be "enough" for a family with a special needs child? Maybe not. For instance, a child with sensory issues benefits from early OT intervention to retrain the brain. A child with attachment issues from foster care or adoption requires therapy with their parent to strengthen the attachment relationship.

But learning to use the peaceful parenting approach is even MORE important for families with special needs kids, because it helps parents self-regulate and connect, as well as coach. The basic peaceful parenting approach is:

1. Regulate your own emotions. Even harder with a special needs child, because it is harder for them to self-regulate, so they can be more challenging for the parent. But they are often even more sensitive to your anger than other children.

2. Connect. Often much harder, but even more important, because why else will they follow your lead? If your child has attachment issues, I advise counseling support for your relationship. But you'll still want to support your bond using the peaceful parenting tools.

3. Coach instead of punish. Most "experts" give advice that centers on rewards and punishments. But all humans deserve the dignity of being coached to be their best selves, rather than punished when they don't behave as we'd like. Special needs children have a different experience of the world than we do, and it must often frighten them. When they act out of fear, they deserve love, not punishment. Of course we will need to set limits, but we can set those with love. And kids with special needs have a harder time self-regulating, so they need emotion-coaching even more than other children. Coaching is also more effective in gaining cooperation, because ALL humans have the instinct to "follow" only those who have their best interests at heart, and rebel against being controlled.

While many examples in the course will be about younger children, the principles apply to all age kids. So the content of this course will be applicable to most stages of your journey as a parent: whether your child is just crawling, a toddler, five, eight or even eighteen years old. In fact, many course participants say the course improved their relationships with spouses and work colleagues.

But because the challenges facing parents during the preteen and teen years are so different, this course is designed primarily for parents of kids who are ten years or younger. If you're not sure whether this course will be relevant to you, please read Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids. If you find the book relevant and useful, you will find the course relevant and useful.

This is an online course that gives you audio lessons and meditations to listen to, and handouts and other homework for self-directed learning. It is not anything like therapy, which gives you personalized support from a trained therapist who meets with you in person. For parents who have trauma backgrounds, I recommend that you tackle deep work only with the help of a trusted counselor who is there to support you. The reason we leave the "Healing Your Triggers" lesson for late in the course is that by then parents who are participating in the course will be aware of their own triggers. Parents have the option in that week of working simply on their own self-regulation, or working with their own counselor on a trigger, or skipping the lesson entirely.

That said, many Course participants say in their evaluations that they experienced more personal growth from this Course than they did from therapy.

You have Dr. Laura's No-Risk Personal Guarantee: If at any point during the first two weeks you aren't completely thrilled by what you're getting out of it, just email us asking for a refund.  Your payment (minus the small processing fee we pay to the credit card company, and the cost of the book if we have mailed one to you) will be cheerfully refunded, no questions asked.

That means that refunds will be given for any cancellation received via e-mail at any time before Session 3 is released.  So you get the first two weeks to "try out" the Course, plus the book, with no risk. As Dr. Laura says, that first two weeks is enough to change your life!

(We will deduct 7% to cover the credit card fees that we pay when you first register, and then again when we issue a refund. If we've sent you a book, we'll also deduct $15 for your copy of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids, which you may keep, as well as an additional $10 for postage and processing. If you are not in the United States and we've sent you a book, any additional postage that we spent to mail your book to you will also be deducted.)

After Week 3 begins, no refunds will be made.

Please Note: If you sell a parenting program or course, you will not be eligible for a refund.

No worries. You have lifetime access to the Course materials so you can log in at any time and finish the Course at your own pace. 

Just go to the My Courses Login Page to login, using the email you provided at registration. If you have forgotten your password, no worries, there's a password reset link and other quick troubleshooting tips there as well. If you are still having issues after trying the troubleshooting steps, please submit a support request and we'll be happy to help!

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- Describe issue you're having
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If you have any questions, or encounter any difficulties registering, please submit a support request and we'll be happy to help you!