MEET ELISABETH STITT

Author and award winning parent educator Elisabeth Stitt founded Joyful Parenting Coaching in 2014 to give parents the skills they need to be confident and joyous.  Over the course of her 25-year teaching career in the Redwood City School District (California), Elisabeth saw how parents were becoming increasingly isolated and at the same time were coming to parenting with little or no actual hands on experience with kids.  Whereas parents used to turn to family and neighbors for models in how to parent, today they have to seek out information and support from professionals. 

Through in-person workshops, one-on-one coaching and online webinars, Elisabeth helps parents establish harmonious households so they can have the warm, loving relationships they desire with their kids. 

On her Joyful Parenting tele-summits, Elisabeth has interviewed parenting experts like Dr. Michael Gurian, Dr. Laura Markham and author Julie Lythcott-Haims. She works with parents from companies you know like Intuit, Cisco, Google and Netflix.  

Elisabeth’s book, Parenting as a Second Language: A Guidebook for Joyfully Navigating the Trials, Triumphs and Tribulations of Parenthood, uses anecdotes from her own experience as a mom, single mom, stepmom and teacher to show parents how to use warmth and empathy to stay connected to their kids even when they make the inevitable mistakes we make as parents.  The exercises for self-reflection in every chapter give parents an opportunity to parent purposefully with the long view in mind rather than parenting by the seat of their pants, slogging through from day to day.  Dr. Denny Coates of Strong for Families praises Elisabeth as “a wise, compassionate woman who [is] one of the most knowledgeable voices among parenting coaches.”