INPaC* was
established in August 2005 by Kenny Toh and his wife, Mei Chin, as a
vehicle to share the joy of parenting through a new approach to
raising children based on the discipline of personal coaching.
Parents-as-Coaches is a result of integrating Kenny's wealth of knowledge,
expertise and experience as a personal coach with the founders' collective
experience as parents. It is developed specifically for parents who share the passion
for bringing out the greatness in children and are committed to play an
active role in raising tomorrow's heroes.
The idea was
inspired partly by a dissatisfaction with outdated parenting practices
that fail to meet the needs of contemporary parents, and partly by the
astonishing accomplishments observed in Sean and Dylan, their two young
children who inevitably became the earliest test subjects or ‘guinea pigs’ for
applying the frameworks and techniques commonly employed in the field of personal
development.
To their
surprise, the boys began reading proficiently at the age two, riding a bicycle
at two and a half, playing games such as Scrabble and International Chess
competently at four, and excelling in school/pre-school. At the age of five
and seven, they both became some of the best chess players in the country in
their respective age groups. Imagine the exhilaration experienced by a
toddler zooming around freely on a two-wheeler. Imagine the look on the
child’s face after pulling off a ‘checkmate’ on an adult many times his age.
Those are the moments of joy that Kenny and Mei Chin wish to share with other
fellow parents.
* INPaC has been featured in
March 2006 Issue of Family (a leading parenting magazine in
Singapore) as one of the four new parent support groups in Singapore that
have sprung up to help average parents do a better job of raising their
kids.
