Parent Support and Education

Wild Roots offers a variety of supports to ease, nourish, and enrich the parenting journey!  ​​
The well known phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child." is no cliche.  Humans have evolved in a context of community and relationship to one another and the land we live within.  Modern life has left many of us without the supports necessary to take on the monumental tasks of fostering healthy future generations.  Nature did not prepare humans for parenting alone.  At Wild Roots we believe we are all in this together and that needing one another is a gift!    Join us and see what we have to offer.
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2026 offerings will be announced soon
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Wild Roots Parent Support and Education
with Lia Grippo
Wild Roots Forest School, Founder / Director
Academy of Forest Kindergarten Teachers, Co-founder/Instructor
Topics include ~
Conservation of Energy in Parenting Young Children
Rhythm and ritual in family life
Holding Boundaries as a Gentle Parent
Holding our Children's Feelings with Grace and Clarity
The Academics of Play
The Social Lives of Young Children
Storytelling for Your Young Child​

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Guiding the Young Child with Confidence and Creativity
This workshop focusses on what the young child needs and how we as adults guide them to it.   
​Learn to ~
Teach rather than preach 
Bring calm and wonder to a child’s day   
Develop a child’s attention, memory, imagination, self discipline, and self regulation
Resolve problems and shift behavior with creative discipline 
Build empathy, moral fortitude, and emotional intelligence
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About Lia Grippo
Born in Riga, Latvia, Lia spent many of her earliest years foraging and fishing the nearby woodlands with her family.  Her early relationship with Nature has remained a constant thread in her life. At an early age, Lia was drawn towards working with young children and has been an early childhood educator since 1989.  She has been fortunate to have had wise and skilled mentors in both early childhood education as well as nature connection.  Lia has taught in a variety of settings including small and and large preschools, a Waldorf kindergarten, a parent cooperative, and wilderness programs.  In 1996, Lia founded her first preschool, Seedlings, and in 1998 she opened Wild Roots Forest School, a preschool and kindergarten roofed by the sky and carpeted with the living woodland floor.  Lia is an accomplished storyteller, parent educator, naturalist, and herbalist and teaches classes and workshops in all of these areas of study. She is co-founder and presenter of the annual Reaching Nature Connection Conference and co-founder of the Academy of Forest Kindergarten Teachers.  Lia resides in Santa Barbara, CA with her husband and two sons.
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Lia Grippo is also available for group workshops and private parent coaching. 
For inquiries, please write [email protected].
Classes include:
Creative Discipline
Story Telling as a Parenting Tool
Rhythm and Ritual in Family Life
​The Nature Connected Family
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​HOMEFOLK

HOMEFOLK is a newsletter/blog, initiated as a support to families during our time of collectively sheltering at home.  It is filled with writings on:
a variety of parenting topics, nature connection inspirations, stories, songs, crafts and activities, much needed humor, ​and more...​​
Go to HOMEFOLK here to visit the webpage and search topics.