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What is Parentography?

Parentography is a vibrant online community for parents who want honest advice, tools, tips and ideas for family excursions, whether they plan to travel across town or across the country!

Parents can share stories, photos, excursion ideas, ratings and reviews on all sorts of family-friendly places and activities. They can search for things to do by location, season, children’s age and other important factors. Parents can comment on other parents’ ideas and suggestions, look up the profiles of the parents who posted each review or excursion to learn more about them and their families, and use the interactive map to discover new adventures right under their noses.

Make sure the restaurant you are going to has high chairs or a children’s menu, find hotels near family-friendly activities, get ideas for an afternoon outing near home, or just explore the site and learn how other families enjoy time together. Parentography takes some of the risk and guesswork out of new adventures - let other parents’ experiences save you time and money and create more special moments with your kids!

With a free registration, users gain full access to the community and enjoy even more benefits:

• Become a recognized expert on the places you visit and the things you do with your children by posting reviews and excursion ideas for other parents.
• Set-up alerts to be notified when a new excursion or review has been posted in an area of interest.
• Add and interact with friends on the site.
• Create bookmarks for quick access to favorite Parentographers, reviews, and excursions.
• Plus, you’ll always be the first to learn what new features we’re adding to improve your experience as a Parentographer!

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Why was Parentography created?

Noelle was planning a family trip to Hawaii and searched dozens of websites for advice and ideas for places to stay and things to do that would be fun with her one year old daughter. Which hotels had kiddie pools and cribs? Was there a beach nearby with calm surf? Were there any playgrounds aroundÉand where could they go out to eat at night and not have to ask for a seat in the kitchen away from other diners expecting a quiet meal? After a lot of effort and not much luck, Noelle made her reservations and took her chances. But, she finished the trip determined to help other parents with one of their most common and frustrating experiences: what to do with their kids in their free time.

The world needed a place where parents could gather and share their experiences about the best places and activities for their family adventures. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to visit friends and relatives in other parts of the country and already know where the best parks and playgrounds are, or be able to find out which local school had the best ballet classes, or get ideas about how to spend a cold winter afternoon when the kids are restless? That’s how the idea was born, with the goal of giving parents honest information on the best things to do, no matter where they are, from other parents with similar interests.

Noelle enlisted the help of her husband Tim and a world-class strategic design consultancy and set to work. The name Parentography was chosen because of its obvious connection to parents and its association with other words like photography, biography, and geography, all features that show up on the site. We do recognize that people besides parents will use the siteÉgrandparents, aunts, uncles, godparents, friends and other caregivers of children. That’s okay because the site is for them, too!

Parentography is a dynamic community that is always growing and changing. If you have comments, complaints or suggestions, we’d love to hear from you. You can also visit our blog to keep up to date on all of the latest Parentography developments.

Who is behind Parentography?

Noelle Ludwig - Co-Founder

Noelle has recently taken a back-seat in the daily operations of Parentography in order to go back to her real love, raising her daughter. Prior to becoming a parent, Noelle worked in her family’s real estate business after earning a BA in Art History from Boston College and an MBA from the University of San Diego. Her other interests include spending time with her family, travel, and doing the weekly People crossword.

Tim Ludwig - Co-Founder

Tim oversees all activity related to Parentography and manages all of the relationships with the people and businesses that keep the site running. Prior to co-founding Parentography, Tim spent time working as a management consultant, was part of an early team in a venture-backed technology start-up, founded and later sold an online publishing business, and, most recently ran a real estate development company in Southern California. He holds a BA in Spanish and Business Economics (with honors) from the College of Wooster and received an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Tim is passionate about his family, reading, and bicycling.