Jennifer Watanabe

Coach and Guide for Parents Who Want a Better Family Life:

• Improve your young child’s behavior.
• Simplify family & work life.
• Reduce stress not just manage stress.
• Strengthen relationships with encouragement.

Before your child was born, you may have imagined that raising a family would be joyful.

You had hoped that you would be a happier parent.

Now you find that some days are hard.

My name is Jennifer Watanabe. I retired from Bellevue College in Washington state after 24 years of teaching positive parenting and positive relationship skills to parents of young children. Since 2007 I have been coaching parents on what they can do to help their child when their behavior is difficult and how they can have a better family life.

During my many years of teaching and coaching, I have found that parents want to find an easier way to parent. They want to be happier, and they want their family to be happier, too.

I have seen firsthand how hard it is for parents to manage family life when they are stressed. COVID and its repercussions have made everything harder.

If you want to find a way to have a better family life, what can you do?

You can seek out more encouragement, guidance, and support to navigate those difficult days more easily.

I support parents who are looking for ways to help their children have better behaviors. I also support parents who want to reduce their stress not just manage stress.

Parents who are working outside the home have their own stressors. There are many articles lamenting the struggles working parents have. Reading about a problem is not the same as working on a problem, though. There are few resources guiding parents through the process of actually reducing their stress in order to make their family and work life better.

I help working parents create a plan to Simplify Family and Work Life. This is not a how-to on practicing mindfulness to manage stress. It is also not a scripted “do this, do that” program; it is personal. And it is not about organizing and de-cluttering. These are all important.

My approach is to help working parents get at the root cause of their stress and then take action to reduce their stress. Reducing stress is a powerful way to “care for oneself.” This is otherwise known as “practicing self-care.”


I am a mom of two adult sons. They live near us, and my husband and I see or talk to them a few times a month. I am happy to say that our relationships are good.