Sylvie Ebert

As a homeschooling mom of two, a PCI Certified Parent Coach®, and the founder of Connected Parenting Coaching & Consulting, I passionately partner with moms and dads to co-create new levels of family fulfillment.

Before coming to parent coaching, I have been working in the corporate and executive fields for over 11 years. In the corporate world, you receive trainings and workshops to become better equipped at your job. However, as parents, despite our big responsibility to help our children launch into this complex world, we are often finding ourselves unprepared and without proper guidance along our intense journey.

When I realized that parenting is the toughest role I’ll ever love, I felt a strong calling to become part of a required shift in family support. The needs and interests of parent and child being very different, makes the parent and child relationship one of extremes! Easily do we slip into correcting our child to fit our needs, while forgetting that the relationship is primary and that correction alone can never gain connection.

Easier said than done, I get that! So how do we parents cover our needs and interests along with the ones of our kids without having to sacrifice the respect and our sanity? I strongly believe getting out of control as a parent and into mutual understanding and respect are key to a strong connection with our children. Through connected parenting, we are able to toward a mutual parent-with-child relationship in which the parent learns alongside the child and mutual understanding is more important than parental control.

The connected approach gives parents the tools to move beyond their initial unproductive reaction to a response that is connecting and empowering to the child and to themselves. The power of the coaching process lies in a co-constructive partnership where the client knows their situation and the coach brings an outside perspective along with guidance, relatedness, research, and expertise to make the best of what is.

As a conclusion, we come to understand why certain tools or approaches work better for your family dynamic than others. This leaves you more confident and better equipped to meet children’s optimal cognitive, emotional, and social needs. At the same time, you will learn effective ways for addressing external pressures (such as the impact of media and the high stress of today’s world) that directly affect your parental decisions and your home environment.

The aim of my work is to hold a safe space for parents, feeling comfortable to be real, and not have to worry about perfection. Because, as we say at PCI, “When we parent well, we transform our world—one parent at a time.”