Parenting is so hard, but it’s the most important “job” we’ll ever have.
The childhood years, teenagers, the grown-up years and beyond. Then once you think you're in the clear, it’s time to help and "parent your own parents." This is why we started Parentfile...
To capture the magic during the mayhem of the childhood years, to find ways to preserve and share family treasures as your children become adults, and to find ways to more proactively help your own parents as they get older by making sure you have saved important information you’re going to need.
Whatever your stage, it's so fun to start adding things to your Parentfile.
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-Key Contacts & Where Things Are
- Medical & Injury Details (So You Remember 10 Years From Now)
- Best Childhood & Family Memories
- Family Ancestry, Recipes, Traditions & More for Them to Have Someday
- Digital Copies of Birth Certificates, Social Security Cards
- Developmental Milestones & Notes (So You Don’t Ever Forget!)
- Just Your Best Family Pictures (Leave the Others on Your Phone/Computer!)
- Digital Backups of Important Family Documents
- Digitized Things From Your Parents to Save for Future Generations
- Your (or Your Parent's) Life Story & Lessons Learned Throughout Life
- Surprise Video Messages to be Shared With Family Members at Specific Life Stages!
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Given that you save ONLY the things that truly matter in your Parentfile, we have customers that update theirs anywhere between once a month to once a year.
Others do it only on family member birthdays, only on holidays, or just at the beginning and end of school years. And some only do it once a year on New Year’s, or with the assistance of a Parentfile Guide on the phone who walks them through it every year.
The key is to figure out your own pattern of when you add things that feels manageable and right for you. There is something freeing about only updating it at certain times of the year and only putting in the most important things…finally something that distills our digital overload into something manageable!
And with the Parentfile App, you can easily save things as often as you like, then log in to your Parentfile on your computer (or any device) and organize things whenever you like.
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If you have young kids, having a Parentfile enables you and your spouse to be in-sync savings things and capturing the magic of the childhood years.
If your children are adults now, start adding things to your Parentfile that are digital and meaningful you want them to have someday…sharing what makes your family special is also a great way to open the lines of communication and have new things to talk about.
If your parents are age 70+, it's time to tune in and start savings things you'll inevitably need and that will make everything you're going to have to deal with 10x easier.
Parentfile is so valuable at every life stage. The sooner you start yours, the more valuable and meaningful things you can add over time.
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From saving important stuff, to fun stuff, to your best family memories, and even medical details that are so easily forgotten over the years, your Parentfile can quickly become one of the most “valuable assets” for your family, and certainly one of the most meaningful.
Our mission is to create a new and improved way to save what matters most for your family, capture meaningful details that are often forgotten in the chaos of life, and open the lines of communication in fun and new ways as everyone gets older.
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In your Parentfile you can designate a specific age, life stage or even specific date to share your Parentfile with someone in your family. It could be when your child turns 18, when you turn 60, or when your grandchild turns 12. It could be when they graduate high school, have a baby, or even get married. It’s completely up to you, and you can pick something different for each family member.
The way your Parentfile is set up is that there are individual folders for each family member, one for the entire family, and one marked private just for you (and your spouse if you so choose). Within each folder, you designate who has access to that folder.
For example, if a folder is for your child Charlie, and you decide he gets access to his folder in Parentfile at age 18, he’ll be sent an email notifying him of this on that specific date (or you can of course tell him as well). He’ll then get his own username/password that will enable him to access just this folder, as well as the Entire Family folder of the Parentfile. You can of course still keep adding things as well. We hear repeatedly it is such a fun way to open the lines of communication with your children (and entire family) as everyone gets older.
Let’s say unfortunately you passed away before Charlie’s 18th birthday, we would make sure to find Charlie to get him access to Parentfile. When entering Charlie’s email, you’d share three ParentFile ID Questions that are unique so that we’d have qualifying questions to ask Charlie if his email was no longer valid and we had to find him another way. Rest assured, we’d make sure Charlie got access to Parentfile and the priceless family treasures that were saved. In addition to giving someone full access, you can also pick one specific thing to share on a specific date or life stage. We call these Milestone Surprises and they are so fun to look forward to…see the next FAQ for how these work.
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In your Parentfile you can establish milestone surprises to share with your children as you (and they) get older.
1. Identify a “life stage” for when to give your child their surprise. Some examples include starting middle school, graduating from college, having their first baby, or even tie it to when you turn a specific age!
2. Select what you want to give them. For example, it might be a specific book, a trip to Italy, a family heirloom such as a ring, or a letter you wrote them. It doesn't matter if it's big or small - as long as it's meaningful to you.
3. Write a message to accompany the surprise in which you explain why it is meaningful to you and why you want them to have it for this specific milestone.
And you can do all this in your Parentfile. Wait until you see how fun it is to look forward to sharing with them!
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We have found 100+ moments that having a Parentfile gives you peace of mind during every life stage…here are just a few:

- Ending Up in the ER - Spouse Doesn’t Know Your Child’s Blood Type
- Your Turn in Line, You Forgot a Document/Birth Certificate
- Fire or Natural Disaster in Your Home, Didn’t Have Digital Backup of Every Room
- You Forget What the Doctor Said About That Broken Bone 10 Years Ago
- Your Spouse Can’t Get a Hold of You, But Accesses Your Parentfile to Save the Day
- You Don’t Have a Will, Your Family Would be Left in a Bind for Where Things Are
- You Do Have a Will, But You Haven’t Saved the Meaningful Stuff or Digital Backups You’d Never Put in a Will
- Something Happens to Your Parent, You Don’t Know Their Neighbor’s Contact Info
- Your Parent Gets Dementia, Can’t Remember Where Things Are or Key Information
- Your Parent Passes, You Haven’t Saved Their Life Story or Even Medical Details That Could Help Future Generations
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