Just got divorced for the 2nd time last week (what can I say? It's a gift), and what I'd really like to see is a web app that does the following:
Give parents and extended family tools to better manage their split parenting work, from parenting schedules, to birthday wish lists, to the child’s clothing sizes, favorite foods, etc.
- Enable the family on one side to be engaged with the life of the child when the child is with the other parent.
- Help the child avoid feeling as if they have “two separate lives”.
- Function as an intermediary between both sides, with focus solely on the child, thus allowing them to cooperate with each other without danger of confrontation. Seeing Nana on Dad’s side communicating and cooperating with Mommy benefits the child greatly.
- Ideally, this technology-assisted “virtual” cooperation in time will serve as a bridge to real-life cooperation and engagement, healing, forgiveness, and understanding.
Features
- Each parent and child can post their work/holiday/event/school/sports schedule
- Track parenting time
- Keep a diary of the child’s activities (food, health, etc) to share with the other parent
- Track shopping lists and assign who buys what (Christmas, bday, etc)
- Track contact info (school, coaches, etc), clothing sizes, etc.
- Share important documents (report cards, etc)
- Share videos, pictures, audio messages, text messages with parents and extended family
- Q&A and community support for parents
- Allow for indirect phone calls between parties who don’t want to share their phone numbers, or chat video the web site.
- Allow for translations to be added to videos and messages.
Great feedback, mikesickler. I'm one of the founders and I can tell you that your requests are in the planning stages. Our vision is help families build sustainable lives over the long-term (I'm 38 and I still get uncomfortable when my divorced parents are in the same room). The tool you describe will be part of it.
I'll share your comment with the rest of the team so we can add some of these to our features list. Thanks!
Give parents and extended family tools to better manage their split parenting work, from parenting schedules, to birthday wish lists, to the child’s clothing sizes, favorite foods, etc.
- Enable the family on one side to be engaged with the life of the child when the child is with the other parent.
- Help the child avoid feeling as if they have “two separate lives”.
- Function as an intermediary between both sides, with focus solely on the child, thus allowing them to cooperate with each other without danger of confrontation. Seeing Nana on Dad’s side communicating and cooperating with Mommy benefits the child greatly.
- Ideally, this technology-assisted “virtual” cooperation in time will serve as a bridge to real-life cooperation and engagement, healing, forgiveness, and understanding.
Features
- Each parent and child can post their work/holiday/event/school/sports schedule
- Track parenting time
- Keep a diary of the child’s activities (food, health, etc) to share with the other parent
- Track shopping lists and assign who buys what (Christmas, bday, etc)
- Track contact info (school, coaches, etc), clothing sizes, etc.
- Share important documents (report cards, etc)
- Share videos, pictures, audio messages, text messages with parents and extended family
- Q&A and community support for parents
- Allow for indirect phone calls between parties who don’t want to share their phone numbers, or chat video the web site.
- Allow for translations to be added to videos and messages.