7 Parenting Coaches In Singapore To Follow
Looking to up your parenting game dealing with tantrums, communication and discipline? These Singapore-based coaches are here to help
By Balvinder Sandhu -
We had teachers to guide us during our school years, so why shouldn't we have someone to steer us towards becoming better parents? Parenting coaches help us navigate our parenting journey so that both parents and children are happy and have a good relationship with each other. This doesn't just apply to new parents, or parents of kids with special needs — it applies to all mums and dads who need a bit of parenting help.
“My husband and I were looking for parenting advice when our first child hit toddlerhood. We were a bit lost and wanted to be better equipped to handle meltdowns with confidence,” says Emma Kang, mum to two boys aged 3 and 1.
“We found that parenting advice after the first year is a lot more piecemeal, so a course was a nice way to get all the information at once. The respectful side of parenting also resonated with us more as we are also very emotionally close with our parents. We enjoyed having parenting principles distilled into a course and delivered to us. Most of all, we liked asking live questions about our particular situation and getting practical advice we could apply instantly!"
Every child is different and reading a parenting book won't necessarily give you the answers you're looking for. This is when a parenting coach can help, with advice that's suited for whatever situation you're in or to meet any particular goals you have for your family.
Here are seven parenting coaches in Singapore to reach out to if you want to improve your parenting style.
Founder Jacinth Liew is a Singaporean who grew up in an academically-focused environment, so she understands the high expectations Asian parents often place on their children. She is also an ex-secondary school teacher and now applies research-backed positive parenting strategies to help parents recognise the best way to discipline their children. Her signature online course is From Yelling to Connecting, and she also shares bite-sized parenting tips on social media and via in-person and virtual workshops. She specialises in providing guidance to parents with children from two to 12 years old.
“My expertise lies in guiding parents to nurture emotional intelligence and improve communication skills with their children,” she says.
Rates: From $37 to $300
Visit her website here.
Founder Maguelonne Rousseau started her company in Singapore to assist parents in identifying their long-term aspirations for their children and themselves, considering their family experience and history. She is a counsellor and a parenting coach. She is also a SleepTalk for Children consultant, a self-esteem programme for children that teaches parents to empower their children while they sleep.
She explains that Conscious Parenting is not another parenting method but a way to develop a positive and growth mindset using knowledge, tools and communication skills that will help parents unlock their children’s potential and become the parents they aspire to be.
Because there is no one-size-fits-all parenting method, Maguelonne helps parents find their own way of parenting. Classes for parents and caregivers (helpers, teachers) are on topics such as how to deal with negative emotions, build resilience, confidence and self-esteem, implement conscious discipline, foster sibling love, and understand the importance of play.
Her specialities include children’s anxiety and stress, tantrums, sibling rivalry, as well as children's self-esteem and positive mindset. She is also a counsellor so can offer specialised advice. Plus, being an expat with a family and career, she understands the struggles of expat women in Singapore and helps expats adapt to life here.
Rates: $140 for a three-hour group class, $200 for a private 1.5-hour session.
Visit her website here.
This is a one-stop shop for all your family coaching needs, with an all-women team. Every family faces different pressures and challenges so coaching needs vary. Services here address all aspects of family dynamics – kids, parents, life and career, health and wellness, money and finance. The experts help individuals and families overcome self-doubt, find their groove and be happy. Parent coaching usually starts with three sessions to unpack and provide valuable tools you can immediately use at home.
Founder and resident parent coach Andrea Liu focusses on parenting through:
Connection: the importance of connecting with your children and how to foster deep connection
Effective Communication: empowered conversations with empathy and understanding
Transformational: shifting mindsets and making sense of emotional intelligence and regulation
Rates: $150-$180 per hour. Packages are available, depending on the coaching area and whether it's face-to-face or virtual. Rates aren't disclosed until after a discovery call with the potential client, to determine the severity of the coaching requirements.
Visit their website here.
Eshlyn helps you be a better parent for your toddler. She helps Asian parents understand their child's behaviour and connect with them through sensory play. The certified early childhood educator resonates with sensory play as children can become whoever they want to be through it.
“Parents who grew up in tiger or permissive parenting households have a lot of shame or doubts in their parenting,” she explains, “because they know they want to do it differently from their parents but don’t want to shame their own parents as they still respect them. They believe they can parent in a different way – an intentional way.”
Eshlyn specialises in early years education, raising and educating toddlers, EQ communication, sensory play, sensory systems, early childhood theories and education, and moving away from traditional tiger/permissive parenting to modern & intentional parenting.
She runs The Parenting Program, where you can be a better parent for your toddler in just 20 minutes a week. It runs for seven weeks, with each one-to-one session lasting 90 minutes.
Rates: $1500 if paid in full or $800 x2 via a payment plan.
Visit her website here. She also runs an Asian Parenting Podcast you can find here.
This registered charity offers Online Parent Coaching for parents and caregivers of children aged three to six. The four-hour session is highly personalised and will address the parenting issues you're most concerned with, to help your child. Accredited parenting coaches guide you to feel more confident and competent in parenting your children. You'll get a parenting plan and learn how to apply positive parenting strategies to encourage better behaviour from your child. And you'll do all this from the comfort of your home.
Rate: $450
Visit their website here.
When Kelly Tay took parenting courses from the US or UK, she often found what she was learning sounded great in theory but wasn’t actually applicable in her local cultural context. She thought these parenting strategies tended to be inapplicable because they ignore (or aren’t aware of) the cultural nuances that Asian families face.
So she started Juicy Parenting, which focuses on Asian families. Her strategies are tailored specifically for Asians, helping parents to break free from the negative aspects of traditional Asian parenting while remaining respectful of the wider cultural context in Singapore/Asia.
The ex-financial journalist also digs deep for information as a parenting coach and breaks down jargon-laden topics, presenting them to parents in a simple and digestible manner. She runs a Respectful Parenting for Asians Course and an online community called the Juicy Fam, where parents who have taken her course have continued access to her.
“Lots of families come to me for help with managing conflicting child-rearing styles,” she shares. “This is an extremely common pain-point among Asian families because grandparents – often on both sides – are intimately involved in raising the grandkids, leading to clashes that sometimes feel insurmountable. Because I focus on Asian families (and am Asian myself), I deeply understand the complexity.” Another area that's close to her heart is helping families adjust to having a new baby sibling.
Rate: Her Course & Community Bundle starts at US$39/month for the basic tier and US$49/month for the all-access tier (charges are in USD because clients come from all over the world). She also offers lots of free support via a downloadable parenting guide and free parenting tips via her social media accounts.
Visit her website here.
Ava is ‘the curious mama’ and she is trained in mindfulness, motherhood sociology and attachment theory, which help to empower mums to make informed parenting choices. These techniques work for both parents and children, while honouring parents’ values and relationship with their little ones. Ava believes that, with the right tools and insights, mums have a better relationship with their kids, resulting in less power struggles and more co-operation.
She offers Flourish, a group program with activities such as group coaching sessions and access to video, audio and text content. Bloom is the 1:1 coaching experience that takes place over eight weeks, where you’ll explore your parenting challenges, get clarity on what matters most and explore solutions together. She also runs workshops and has a podcast.
Rate: Flourish $69 or $249 (includes extra 1:1 coaching for four weeks), Bloom $390 or $150/month x3
Visit her website here.