Parent 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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​Wild Roots Parent Support Series
September 2023 - May 2024
with Lia Grippo, Wild Roots’ Founder / Director
*morning sessions, 9:30-11:30am
** evening sessions, 5-7pm

RSVP here to attend a session
or to receive updates kindly indicate general interest on the form

Conservation of Energy in Parenting Young Children ~ Rhythm and ritual in family life
September 19 - Tuesday morning, 9:30am-11:30am at Rocky Nook Park
September 20 - Wednesday evening, 5-7pm at Rocky Nook Park

Holding Boundaries as a Gentle Parent
October 17 - Tuesday morning, 9:30am-11:30am at Lake Los Carneros
October 18 - Wednesday evening, 5-7pm, at SB Historical Museum 
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Holding our Children's Feelings with Grace and Clarity
November 14 - Tuesday morning, 9:30am-11:30am, Stevens Park
November 15 - Wednesday evening, 5-7pm, at SB Historical Museum 
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The Academics of Play
March 5 - Tuesday morning, 9:30am-11:30am, at Stevens Park
​March 6 - Wednesday evening, 5-7pm, at SB Historical Museum 
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The Social Lives of Young Children
April 17 - Wednesday evening, 5-7pm, at SB Historical Museum
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​Storytelling for Your Young Child
May 15 - Wednesday evening, 5-7pm, at Lake Los Carneros
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​No cost for current Wild Roots' parents, grandparents, caregivers 

Open to all interested parents, grandparents, caregivers.  Suggested donation $25, any donation is welcome (cash, check, or PayPal to [email protected])

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​Past and Future offerings

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.

​Guiding the Young Child with Confidence and Creativity
with Lia Grippo
This workshop will focus 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

​Storytelling Workshop
​with Lia Grippo
Join us for an endeavor into extraordinary storytelling! 

​A workshop to build our skills in sharing stories embedded with meaning, heart and purpose. 
Develop storytelling skills to guide and enchant
Teach rather than preach
Bring calm and wonder to a child’s day
Foster attention, memory, imagination, and self discipline
Creatively resolve problems and shift behavior
Increase children’s empathy, moral fortitude, and emotional intelligence​
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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.