Bringing Parenting into Focus

There will always be babies.  There will always be parents.

There is so much information available these days about parenting and child development, but most of it is focused on having and bringing home the baby.  At ParenTv Network, we focus on bringing home parents.

Welcome to ParenTVNetwork (PTVN), your source for news, information, inspiration, entertainment and the BABY! International Film Festival.   We’re home base for men and women, mothers and fathers, relatives and professionals who want information about how they can support excellent parenting around the world.  PTVN is a 501(c) 3 non-profit and non-partisan organization working with the family industry leaders.

It takes a lot of time and work to be good parents ~ involved in the daily time, teachings and modeling for families. PTVN is here to help guide parents and caregivers to fill their essential roles.  PTVN brings parenting into focus.  We achieve this by connecting, sharing and offering parenting resources from professional organizations, experts and filmmakers.  Our content  and forums are interactive and creates relationships between parents and the service organizations and professionals working with children and families.

Our values:  PTVN places parents at the heart of our message.  Our conversations about what’s happening in the world of pregnancy and parenting are flowing and focused on parenting with;

• Respect
• Curiosity
• Compassion

PTVN is your parenting portal focused on information that’s:

• Engaging
• Useful
• Interesting
• Accessible
• Affordable
• Current

PTVN creates, invites and guides: 

• Affordable access to information about parenting for women and men
• Relationships and community development between Network partners
• Cross-sharing of content, articles, information and conversations

PTVN believes in putting words into action through community practice, engagement and development with selected programming and content platforms.  We’re especially proud of our community project: BABY! International Film Festival.

About BABY! International Film Festival

BABY! International Film Festival is a traveling film festival about birth, babies and bonding for audiences that include parents, families, educators, policy makers and healthcare providers.

BABY! provides unique opportunities for parents, policy makers, healthcare providers, communities, local and global organizations involved in family-related services to gather together for a wide variety of films, classes and informational seminars.  Our film festival’s goal is to expand awareness about issues surrounding infant, maternal and family health and wellbeing, birth, bonding and parenting.

BABY! supports communities to gather and share information, resources, knowledge and experiences.  It provides opportunities for conversations, creates connections and establishes relationships between family service organizations, health care providers, policy makers and parents.

BABY! Film Festivals are held all over the world, including recent events in Santa Barbara, Albuquerque, Boston, France, Australia and Africa.

For example, in Africa;

• BABY! Uganda, held at The National Theatre in Kampala in May 2010 has become a catalyst for ongoing community involvement, education and opportunities focused on reducing infant and maternal mortality.
• The 2nd annual BABY! Uganda returned to Uganda and traveled to the Apac District of Uganda November, 2011.