Karen Ryce

I teach the Solution to most of the problems that develop between adults and kids.
(I use the word ‘kids’ because it includes children and teens.)

This elegant system was developed out of many years of observation, experimentation and discovery.

“The Miracle Worker...of Education and Parenting”: This name was given to me a number of years ago because I have mastered the Power of Respect. Therefore, my results with kids can seem miraculous.

In 1973 I founded a Montessori pre-school. Four years before this, in 1969, I went to India. I enrolled in Montessori Training. The Montessori Course was being given in Hyderabad in South India.

The trainer was Mr. A.M. Joosten. Since the age of 14 he actually lived with Dr. Maria Montessori, the originator of the Montessori Method. He had been training students in India since Dr. Montessori had called him over from Holland to take over what she had started in India.

I graduated in the top few students in my class. Although I already had my B.A. in Anthropology, it was here in the Montessori Course that I learned the important functions of childhood, worthy of great respect.

I was asked by Mr. A.M. Joosten to stay on the next year as an assistant to the Course. I helped with everything except lecturing. I assisted in the practical classes, graded papers, tests, and sat as an examiner for the final examination. I formed study groups to work with interested students to give them one-on-one attention.

After the Training Center moved I decided that it was time to return to the United States to start my own Montessori school. In 1973 I ended up in the mountains of northern Califo ia where the community invited me to start my pre-school which I called Children’s House. I started in the town of Garberville.

During this time I decided to incorporate and Beginnings Incorporated was formed.

Soon after this a friend sent me notice that the State of Califo ia was looking to fund programs such as mine.

I applied for the funding and the program was funded. That funding continues to this day.

I remained as head teacher at Children’s House for 15 years. I realized that I needed to share what I had learned about being respectful to kids with the community.

I began writing what turned into my first book, Friendly Families and the Power of Respect. This eventually became Parenting for the New Millennium. It is now taking ebook forms. The first was Teens and the Power of Respect and now there is Parenting with the Power of Respect.

I gave workshops and classes, spoke on the radio, wrote for a local magazine and newspaper. I have taught adults, teens and children how to use the Power of Respect. They can see for themselves the benefits. I once received a spontaneous standing ovation from a classroom of elementary students.

I have been named The Miracle Worker...of Education and Parenting because I have harnessed the Power of Respect and put it to work in everything I do, in every actio I take, in every choice I make. I use it to help bring out the best in every child or tee I have worked with, interacted with or lived with.

I am here to help you do the same. I can help parents and their kids turn away from troubles and toward an enjoyable relationship.