CHAPTER 1: What is Peaceful Parenting?

What is respectful parenting, why is it important, and how do I do it?

Peaceful parenting is parenting with the good of the relationship in mind. In short, it’s what helps connect us emotionally to our family. It's the healer of wounds, the sage advice-giver in our mind, that prompts us to choose connection over being right.

CHAPTER 2: The Scientific Foundations of Peaceful Parenting

Use incredibly insightful scientific research to guide your peaceful parenting approach.

The five core principles of peaceful parenting are deeply rooted in science. They allow us to build healthy relationships with our children based on empathy, respect, and understanding. Holding these elements centrally in our parenting is life-changing.

CHAPTER 3: Peaceful Parenting is NOT Permissive Parenting

Does peaceful parenting mean that we let our kids do whatever they want?

Peaceful parenting provides the good news that parents don't have to use punishments, consequences, or other punitive parenting methods to raise happy, successful, and emotionally intelligent children. This doesn’t mean that children are in charge or that parents don’t have boundaries.

CHAPTER 4: Peaceful Parenting Best Practices

Practical tips from a peaceful parenting coach.

Understanding the best practices of peaceful parenting can help any family struggling to find peace and connection. Parents can model leadership by being present, showing empathy, and developing strong communication skills to help children identify stressors, articulate their needs, and develop trusting relationships.

CHAPTER 5: Jai's Peaceful Parenting Method

What if the solution to our children’s challenging behaviors didn’t require a power struggle?

Understanding and connecting with your children can dissolve challenging behaviors and foster a family environment rich in cooperative communication, empathy, and emotional intelligence. Explore a new approach to parenting that goes beyond behavior-focused solutions, creating a harmonious and fulfilling family dynamic.

CHAPTER 6: Six Ways to Become a More Peaceful Parent

Many of us want something better for our children. But is it even possible? 

Parenting is a lifetime commitment. Many of us are taught to just wing it, which leaves us perpetuating the patterns we were raised in. Let’s begin by unpacking what peaceful parenting means (and what it doesn’t mean) and exploring how you can apply some simple, respectful parenting approaches immediately.

CHAPTER 7: Seven Parenting Tips for Handling Tantrums and Emotional Meltdowns

How do you handle tantrums as a peaceful parent? 

We often misinterpret children’s behavior as intentional opposition rather than a signal of their internal struggles. Learn why these emotional outbursts are not manipulative behavior but rather a way of communicating needs they are unable to express. We’ll show you how responding with empathy and support immediately reduces power struggles and conflict, helps your child navigate their emotions, and promotes healthy development.

CHAPTER 8: Five Simple Tips for Parenting Without Yelling



Some simple and accessible ways to stop yelling in your parenting today.

How can we do the tough work of parenting without yelling? How do we uphold boundaries or express our anger without yelling? Even if you’ve been trying to change this without success for a long time, there is hope! Explore five simple ways to prevent and replace yelling in your daily parenting.

CHAPTER 9: Seven Tips for Parenting with an Open Mind

Discover the freedom that parenting with curiosity and openness can create.

When we hold the intention to gather information about child development, make observations to consider the bigger picture, and see behavior as a symptom or a form of communication, we can lean into curiosity in our parenting at a whole new level. 

CHAPTER 10: Common Peaceful Parenting Mistakes

Could trying to be a ‘perfect’ parent be preventing you from being the parent you want to be?

Learn how embracing imperfections, acknowledging feelings, and showing yourself compassion can profoundly impact your parenting experience and your child's development.

CHAPTER 11: How to Say Goodbye to Parent Guilt

Keep hearing that internal voice that says you’re an awful parent?

Parent guilt and shame are so common, pervasive, and powerful. In this article, we will make sense of shame, soften our defenses against feeling parental guilt, and learn how to grieve productively so we may welcome guilt as a guide.

CHAPTER 12: A Father’s Vital Role in Teaching Children Empathy and Emotional Intelligence

How is a Father’s role special in peaceful parenting?

Research shows fathers are powerful models of empathy. Active involvement from fathers in early development leads to greater self-control, independence, and secure attachment in children. (Want more? Meet our dad parenting coaches here!)

CHAPTER 13: Emotional Self-Regulation for You and Your Children

How to nurture secure attachment for yourself and your children.

Peaceful parenting is all about reconditioning ourselves away from the power-over or power-under methods of parenting that have been taught for centuries. We are learning through new developments in neuroscience that children cognitively need empathy, connection, and the allowance of their emotions with non-judgment to grow up to be emotionally mature adults.

CHAPTER 14: The Power of PLAY! The Language of Children 



What can we do to bring more play into our children's lives?

Discover the benefits of play in childhood development and well-being! Play is the natural state of learning and meets them where they are developmentally. Play is also an absolute necessity for a healthy childhood!

CHAPTER 15: The Benefits of Peaceful Parenting: Four Superpowers to Embrace



You don’t need a mask, cape, or secret identity… 

You can embody Peaceful Parenting Superpowers through your commitment to learning, reflection, and progress toward your parenting goals. Each special ability shows the benefits of peaceful parenting, both individually and within your relationship with your children.

If you want to learn how to take all this incredible information and apply it directly to your own life as a parent, sign up for Jai’s free Peaceful Parenting course now! 

You'll discover the five-part P.E.A.C.E. Process that Jai Certified Parenting Coaches use with their clients as an effective replacement for time-outs, punishments, threats, and bribes. Transform your family from yelling and bickering to connection and cooperation in a matter of DAYS!