General Questions

Parent coaching is a collaborative and transformative process where a parenting coach helps clients heal or improve their relationships with their children.

Therapy addresses mental health conditions and past experiences; coaching focuses more on the present and the future.  

As a parenting coach, I also help clients to "connect the dots" between their past experiences and present struggles; although we explore the past to understand how it shows up in their current life, the focus is more on the present.

I practice positive parenting with curiosity, communication, and collaboration instead of punishments, threats, or bribes.

I strive for improvement, not perfection. 

I don't beat myself up when I make mistakes; I just try to learn from them.

I try to model instead of preaching. When I do find myself preaching, I try to "model what I preach".  

I believe in treating children, like treating any human being, with respect, dignity, humility, and compassion.

I remind myself to always respect my child's individuality instead of imposing my own definitions of success on him. 

I believe that when we interact with our children in ways that make them feel that they are loved for who they are, and that when they can be themselves without fear of being blamed, yelled at/nagged at, criticized, or shamed, they develop a sense of security and trust around us. This trust fosters a willingness to listen, cooperate, and engage with our beliefs, rules, and values. 

Books that I've read and have guided me over the years:

-Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting 

-The Explosive Child

-The Whole-Brain Child

-Raising Your Spirited Child

-Nonviolent Communication

-Beyond Behaviors, Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and

Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges

-The Power of Showing Up

-How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

-Basic Montessori  by David Gettman

-Positive Pushing: How to Raise a Successful and Happy Child

-The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

-How to Raise an Adult 

-Baby Hearts: A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start

-Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting From Birth to Six Years

Although the curriculum can be used for parenting children of any age, my coaching at this time is more suitable for parenting children three years old and above.  If you parent a child under three and are interested in just the curriculum, you can enroll in the Self-guided Program.  

Yes, I  also speak conversational Mandarin Chinese.

Yes.  Please contact me for my availability.

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I want you to feel good about your investment.  If any time you feel that the program is not right for you when you are enrolled in the 12-week or 8-week Program, you can discontinue the program and cancel the unused sessions.  I will refund you your unused sessions minus $200 for the printable online curriculum and $100 administrative fee.

There's no refund on the Self-guided Program after online access to the curriculum has been given.