A Parenting Voice for Moms Raising Kids Between Cultures
I'm Aline, a parenting and SEL coach for diaspora SWANA moms raising kids between cultures.
I speak about what it means to raise our children with more warmth, play, and emotional attunement than many of us were raised with, while honoring where we come from.
What I Bring to Your Audience
This is not another list of parenting rules. This is real emotional education, the kind that leaves parents feelings seen rather than judged, with something they can actually use between school pickup and bedtime.
My work centers the specific, often unspoken experience of parenting between two cultures: the pull between how we were raised and how we want to raise our kids.
My work centers the SWANA and Armenian diaspora, but this tension lives in nearly every culture, so a mixed audience tends to find itself nodding at the same things.
Speaking Topics & Workshops
Raising Kids Between Two Cultures — bridging the gap between how you were raised and how you want to parent
Learning to Play — why so many of us didn't grow up playing, and how to bring more of it into our homes
Big Emotions, Little Kids — helping children with their feelings and behavior when no one taught you how
Boundaries Without the Guilt — holding limits with warmth, even when it's not how you were raised
The Cycle Ends With You — choosing what to carry forward from your upbringing, and what to leave behind
About Me
I hold an MA in Educational Psychology and am a board-certified health and wellbeing coach, with over a decade of experience across education, school counseling, and pediatric behavioral health. I'm also a diaspora mother doing this work in my own life, which is where the heart of it comes from.