Intentional Parenting for a Changing World
Get the Tools & Insights you need to Equip your Kids and Teens with the Essential Skills they need to Thrive both Now and in their Futures.
Join our community and get:
⭐ 21st Century Expert Parenting Advice,
💻 Practical tools to keep your kids Safer and Saner Online,
👩💼 Insights on the Future of Work,
🤹 Resources to help your kids & teens Develop 21st Century Skills &
☕ Community Support.
Our growing library of resources will help you guide your children to develop the skills
they need to thrive in today's rapidly changing world.
We’ve got your back
As busy, and often overwhelmed, 21st century parents,
we're concerned about so many things...
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An Unimaginable Future: Technology is evolving at such a rapid rate that it often feels impossible to even imagine the world of work that our children will find themselves in the 2040's.
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Uncharted Professions: The jobs that our children will have one day probably don't even exist yet, so how do we help them prepare for their future careers?
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Future Skills: Our children need a new set of skills to be able to face the future of work with confidence, but where do we start?
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Online Safety: Helping our children manage Social Media, 'Screen time', Cyberbullying, and their Mental Health can be so very overwhelming, for us parents, and for our kids.
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Mental Health Crisis: The level of anxiety and poor mental health in our children's generation is at a critical point. Something is wrong. Something has to change.
This parenting gig can be exhausting, overwhelming and sometimes even a little scary.
Are we doing the right thing? Will our kids be equipped for their futures?
Are our children going to be ok?
Equip yourself with helpful insights and practical resources so that you're better prepared to guide your children, regardless of what the future holds for them.
Here's some of the magic that happens when you have access to global futurists (who are also parents), parenting experts and a community of other parents intentionally parenting for the 21st century:
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Informed Decision-Making: Make more informed choices about your children's education and other important areas in your children's lives.
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Online safety: Empower yourself with the tools and facts to keep your kids safer and saner online.
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Understand the Future Job Market: Prepare your children for future job markets by understanding what their future careers could look like, what jobs are disappearing and what skills they'll need to thrive.
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Embrace Technology: Feel confident in your family's use of technology to enhance your digital literacy.
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Cultivate Innovation and Adaptability: Nurture your child's entrepreneurial mindset by encouraging innovation and adaptability.
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Promote Critical Thinking: Foster problem-solving skills crucial for navigating uncertainty and change effectively.
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Expert Guidance: Access insights and resources from a variety of parenting experts to address 21st Century Parenting challenges.
Welcome to the
Future Smart Parent Club
Embark on a journey to intentional parenting in the 21st century, supported by a nurturing community that uplifts and empowers every step of the way. From adapting to the changing world and equipping our children with new skills to redefining career perspectives and evolving parental roles, we explore it all.
Together, let's shift our parenting paradigm from overwhelmed to empowered, ensuring a brighter future for our children in today's disruptive world.
Get instant access to practical tools and helpful insights to become a more informed parent to navigate the complexities of 21st Century parenting with confidence.
Here's a sneak peek of what's inside...
(we keep adding to these resources monthly)
Short videos & practical tools and resources to help you help your children develop the skills that are essential for the 21st century.
A growing list of fun activities you can use together as a family to develop skills such as problem-solving, curiosity and critical thinking.
Bite-sized videos by global futurist Graeme Codrington, exploring the future of work and all that it'll require from our children.
Monthly printables to help make life as a busy parent a little bit easier - from meal planning, conversation starters, cell phone contracts and more.
A webinar by Graeme Codrington introducing parents to generative AI, especially ChatGPT and the use cases for helping young people use it as a tool for learning.
Guidance on the various social media platforms our kids are hanging out on, and how to update the settings for enhanced online safety.
A practical video workshop on how to keep your kids safer and saner online. (Value $37)
Regular reminders of the joy of parenting amidst ticking all the boxes we think we need to tick!
Regular live calls with parenting experts covering topics from mindfulness to neurodiversity and everything in between.
I’ll be honest with you
I totally know how overwhelming parenting in the 21st Century can be.
When I started out as a brand-new parent 14 years ago I had no idea what lay ahead of us!
I remember my eldest running around in nappies while I was on a Skype call with Graeme (one of those futurists in our team that I keep talking about, and the co-founder of the Future Smart Parent Club, and co-author of Future Proof your Child for the 2020s and beyond) and listening to him tell me how he was giving his middle daughter an allowance to outsource some of her homework.
That random conversation was a BIG moment in my parenting journey that hit me like a tonne of bricks. It dawned on me that much of my approach to parenting was shaped by my own upbringing, yet the world I grew up in was vastly different from the one my children are being raised in.
Fast-forward a few years to the beginning of 2020. I had just been diagnosed with cancer (I've since kicked its ass), and at the same time the world went into lockdown. Talk about disruption!
We decided to take our kids out of school to just let them play while we focused on my physical and their mental health - rather than trying to teach them their times tables and how to read amidst the disruption the world, and our family, was experiencing. (My son did learn to read by playing Minecraft by thee way.)
Despite the fear I felt during that period, I was also lucky enough to have a different view of the world from having worked with our team of futurists at TomorrowToday Global for over decade, and being a part of the work we did with helping our global clients prepare their people and organisations for the disruption that we were all experiencing (and continue to experience) in this new world of work.
So in the midst of the 2020 craziness I finally realized:
How truly blessed I am to have daily access to the insights, research, practical advice and different ways of thinking that our team at TomorrowToday share.
I recognized that the valuable insights we've been providing to our global clients for over two decades already, for which they pay thousands of dollars, are just as essential for parents and the future leaders and world changers that we're parenting today.
Without a doubt, we have to parent a little differently, yet very much intentionally, for our changing world. We have to be brave, be willing to experiment, to make changes, adapt when necessary and innovate our own ways of thinking in order to help our children flourish in their own exciting futures.
Having been given the chance to 'look into the future' through the work that our team of futurists do, has allowed our family to make a variety of decisions that we would never have been brave enough to follow through with had we not been exposed to this thinking and insights.
I mean, we embrace tech (my boy learnt to read playing Minecraft), yet my 13-year-old isn't allowed on Social Media yet. We unschooled our kids for 3 years, but during that time they were also a part of a global learning hub - engaging with kids from around the world while being able to dive into their own passion projects, while learning essential skills along the way. (Now they're at a small local school where they can climb trees, build forts and crochet during class, and are at no disadvantage to their peers from being out of school for that time.)
We celebrate their achievements but also encourage them to fail. Whether they go to university one day isn't a priority right now, but raising life-long learners certainly is. ... (which means my 11-year-old has spent most of today on YouTube discovering where the best fishing spots are, and what the best bait and fishing tackle to use on our local river is, and no doubt tomorrow he'll be digging in the mud for prawns and hopefully hooking 'the big one'.)
And as much as we get right, we also get wrong... But hopefully, our kids are watching us make these mistakes and learning that it's ok to do so, observing that innovation doesn't come from doing the same old thing and problem-solving isn't something we just talk about. That we all grow and learn every single day that we are brave enough to do so.
The future smart parent club is for these parents:
Busy Parents who know we need a different approach to raising our kids, but who also juggle work commitments and family responsibilities, with limited time & resources to stay updated on what it's going to take our kids to thrive in their futures. It's time to move from overwhelmed to informed...
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Parents of Young Children (5+)
Who have their eye on tomorrow and who want to keep on top of what the world throws at our children. From understanding the world we're raising them for, to keeping them safe online and offline. Advice on coding platforms, educational apps, and the developing brain... Don't wait until it's too late to start educating yourself on parenting for the 21st century.
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Parents who Embrace Tech
who recognize the role of technology in our children's lives and actively incorporate it into our parenting approach, but who may also lack the knowledge to fully understand and manage our children's digital activities and online safety effectively.
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Parents of Tweens who are grappling with decisions about when to give their kids a phone, seeking guidance on online safety and parental controls, while setting boundaries and discussing accountability.
Parents who are committed to playing an active role in preparing their children for the future, rather than entrusting this crucial responsibility to an outdated education system.
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Mainstream, Home School, World School and everything in between. Regardless of where or how our children are educated, our goal is to ensure the best for them. It's our responsibility to help them develop their new skills, guide them in navigating technology, and ultimately raise them to be global citizens who actively contribute to a better society.
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Parents of Teens who support your teen's independence while maintaining a strong foundation of trust, empathy, and guidance through the challenges of adolescence and digital age complexities.
Parents who want to be able to guide your teens in the decisions they are making to further their education, become global citizens and who want to better understand the future of work to empower them to make more informed decisions.
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JUDE FOULSTON MOM, ENTREPRENEUR, CANCER SURVIVOR & TEA DRINKER.
I’m Jude Foulston, an introverted mom trying my best to raise kids who are happy & confident, kids who embrace all that makes them unique, while preparing them for an exciting future that looks really, nothing like the world we grew up in.
My kids are 11 and 13, and in 2020, during a global pandemic, after being diagnosed with breast cancer and dealing with chemo and some big life questions, our family took the decision to remove our kids from their traditional mainstream schools which hadn’t really been working for us, and took a completely different route of self-directed learning. (Our kids are now at a more 'mainstream' school, but they still manage to climb trees, go barefoot, and where their homework is mostly reading and playing.)
I know that it takes a village to raise a child, and I am always looking for fellow villagers. Whether you send your kids to mainstream schools, whether you homeschool, or unschool, I look forward to being able to walk this parenting journey with you.
GRAEME CODRINGTON DAD, FUTURIST, GLOBAL SPEAKER, AUTHOR AND EXPERT IN THE FUTURE OF WORK.
Graeme Codrington is a Futurist, an International Speaker and Expert on the Future of Work. He’s the co-author of the best seller book ‘How to Future Proof your Child for the 2020’s’ and co-founder of the consultancy TomorrowToday Global. With all those titles, his greatest is, and always will be ‘Dad to 3 daughters’.
Frequently asked questions
Q: I don't have enough time as it is. Will this really work for me?
A: Yes, we know how busy parents are and promise to provide content that doesn't overwhelm or take too much time to consume. Also - at this price, if you just consume one piece of content a month while cooking supper, we think it's still a great investment in your kids' futures.
Q: What if I want to cancel?
A: You can cancel at any time. No questions asked.
Q: Do I have access to all the content?
A: You'll have access to all the content for as long as you remain a member.
Q: Does this only work for parents?
A: We do have grandparents who want to keep learning about their grandchildren's worlds who are members of the club. Talk about modeling life-learning learning!
Q: I am not tech savvy. How do I access the content?
A: We send regular emails with our content updates, and you have access to an online portal where we keep all our content. We do also have a Facebook group for our members where we share some of our content if you prefer accessing it there first. Accessing your content is as easy as making scrambled eggs for dinner on a Sunday night!
Q: My kids are still very young (under 5), will this still work for me?
A: It will, but to be honest, our resources are aimed at kids who are five plus. It'll give you lots to think about and consider, and 100% will impact the way you parent. We suggest you give us a try for a month and if it's not adding value just cancel your membership and join us at a later stage. There is a 7-Day no-questions-asked money-back-guarantee so you've got nothing to lose!
Q: Who are the experts or facilitators involved in the club, and what qualifications do they have?
A: The club was co-founded by Jude Foulston and Graeme Codrington. See above for their short bio's.
Q: When will I get access?
A: You will receive an email with all the details immediately after your purchase.
Q: Is there a money-back guarantee?
A: Yes, there is a 7-Day no-questions-asked money-back-guarantee.
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