what is BIF Parenting?
Our jobs are parents, grandparents, and carers is to prepare our kids for a confident, thriving life. It’s in this context that parenting for creative problem solving is urgent and critical. So, we’ve designed resources that first re-parent adult creativity, so we can then better parent for creativity.
is BIF Parenting so important?
Machines, automation, artificial intelligence … all kinds of brain melting technology is rapidly changing today, let alone the future. This robotic revolution demands we nurture that which machines can’t do… like creativity, curiosity, empathy, collaboration, resilience. Confidently Parenting for this is futuring proof our kids (come what may).
The change was palpable.
Right then, I saw this inner shift in her. I could sense immediate new confidence. It was as if resonating through her being was a profound new truth; ‘I’m an IdeasGirl’
does BIF Parenting work?
No parent wants to be told how to parent their children - our BIF Parenting isn’t that.
Rather, much like our Enterprise and Education works, we know most adults creativity has atrophied - meaning we big people no longer believe in the power of creativity, not confidently identify as creative humans. That’s where we start. Our Parenting resources first speak to our adult creativity to renew knowledge of it, and confidence for it. We then put our adult creativity into the context of parenting for our kids creativity. That’s our lane and we stay in it.
We’ve produced 3 very low-hurdle ways to support that:
First, a Handbook for Parents
Our short, visual read introduces our ‘what, why and how’ of parenting for creativity. We introduce 3 easy principles that any parent can get doing:
Kids are little people with big ideas
The outdoors is their wild ideas playground
The little moments are our big parenting moments
Second, a Parenting Masterclass
Explore creative parenting with good company, great wine, and tasty food as we introduce BIFKiDS to a group of curious parents and bring our handbook to life:
Introducing BIF for Lifelong Creativity
The neuroscience of the creative brain
How that translates into creative parenting at home
Explaining our BIFKiDS worksheet
Inviting to join our Parenting community
Sign up below and get notified when we launch our Parenting Masterclass:
Third, Try BIF Parenting Now
Want to try some creative parenting now? Join our FREE community, and download the print-at-home copy of our BIFKiDS Activity Book to watch how you’re little people go at playing with their big ideas.
By joining you get access to the FREE Activity Book and many more resources to boost your creative confidence.
Meet Matt
“Everyone is creative, anyone can innovate, you just need to learn how!”
BIF Portfolio is led by BIF Founder Matt Hart, an international renown global innovator, educator, and author expert in the practices of accelerated innovation.
He delivers BIF proprietary methodologies developed and proven with global brand leaders, agile startups, and bootstrapped ventures (including real-time updates around whatever new things he's doing from distant corners of the innovation edges).