project overview

Parents of similarly aged children routinely share ideas. Learning from older parents happens more organically through neighbors, family and friends. This conceptual project started as a way to gain perspective on how parenting changes over time.

A point of view emerged around realism in parenting, not the idealized holiday card version but also not a despairing and defeated one. The insights were distilled from the research and the visualizations reflect on the reality of parenting.

Research participants

Qualitative research with families consisted of in person interviews and a short questionnaire. The age of the children (or years of parental experience) ranged from 18 months to 41 years.