Stocking ornaments made for Patti by a young lady in her baby loss group, ParentCare. 🥹

These are our 3 children taken too soon. 😢

There WAS a low level 2017/18 campaign to rebrand Mothercare to Parentcare to be more inclusive of Fathers, including a government petition and a Fathers4Justice campaign.

Nothing to do with Trans people…

5/

Real pros litigate whether doing "family activities" that allow you to vicariously live out your childhood ambitions should count towards childcare or add a third field of parentcare to the mix.

You’ve been holding so much. It’s okay to be held too. Call someone. Breathe. 💛 #ParentCare

Patti took over a support group called “ParentCare” for pregnancy loss in 1990, and has facilitated a group the 3rd Thursday of each month since.

She was also District Commissioner for Girl Guides in our region for years, and now our daughter leads a Rangers group in Vancouver.

We will be honouring
128 babies at this year’s “ParentCare Candlelight Service.”

#GoneTooSoon

Caregivers! We're not in charge. And yet we are. But we're not, really. You know how it is... We are managers.

substack.com/@simplifycaring

#beorganized #parentcare #simplifycaring #tinyoffice #onlineoffice #getorganized #careteam #careteams #sandwichgeneration #seniorcare #caregiversupport

Best book cover yet for The Final Quest. Targeting families w/ adult children, adults on the aging journey towards end of life managing the business of life so our survivors don't have to, navigating aging to end of life. I am "Art of Parentcare". Thoughts? #pretendpanel #writingcommunity #writers

Tomorrow, Patti has her Annual ParentCare Candlelight Service for people remembering the babies they lost at birth. She has running around to do.

I’m debating if I do my Xmas shopping today. The stores will be emptier.

#pretendpanel a decade ago when I began the journey to write Holding Hands - The Art of Parentcare, I attended every writing group I found, built a website to blog on a couple times/wk, knowing that material could help build chapters.
The other keeps me going “you can’t edit a blank page”. Write!

...worked on climate resilience plans for a while...
Also for the past 10 yrs, caregiver. I'm solution focused.

We built SimplifyCaring App to help caregivers stay organized. It worked for us. Try it!

#beorganized #parentcare #simplifycaring #tinyoffice #getorganized #caregiver #careteams

This story could be about me. It's not, but worth sharing a gift link.

I suspect this is increasingly coming up in how workplaces, if not society, perhaps should recognise unpaid work of caregivers. Work that is overwhelmingly done by daughters.

It's called parentcare and it is heavily gendered.

If today feels heavy, place one hand on your heart and one on your belly. Breathe deep. You’re doing your best. That matters. 💛🌬️ #ParentCare

A #NewYears shout-out to #DementiaCarers 🕯️🫂🙏🏽.

We usually are holding #ElderCare, & often #ParentCare.

Lifting up carers' #selfcare especially for any holding #liveincare.

Fyi, #RespiteCare is so important!

Kids napping? Take five minutes just for you. A hot tea, a deep breath, a short stretch. You matter too, even in the middle of Monday. 💛☕ #ParentCare

Paper planners. Good. But mostly (just) for you.
I did a DuckDuckGo search for ‘end of life planner’ and found pages upon pages of paper planner search results.

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A Storage Box, in a fireproof safe.
Important documents need to be safe. Sure.
They also need to be accessible, shareable, digital... And not in the back seat of your car either.

→ simplifycaring.substack.com

#beorganized #parentcare #simplifycaring #tinyoffice #onlineoffice #getorganized

She is only on Facebook, and doesn’t post work stuff online.

This is her support group page.
Send her an email, with any questions. I will let her know you may be contacting her. She is still asleep.

www.parent-care.ca