WELCOME TO PREPARENTAL
How will you prepare for the practicalities of becoming a parent?
Preparental is the home of Parenthood Planning, with a mission to create fearless future parents.
Preparental is designed to help you prepare your life for kids in practical ways – from how to budget for family life, to how to plan your career as a parent. From finding out how childcare works, to preparing your relationship and deciding where to live and who will do what.
Preparental’s tools, information, resources, courses and mentoring will help dispel your anxiety, resolve your uncertainties, and calm your panic.
Work with me
I’m Helen Cammack, the founder of Preparental, and I’m on a mission to turn anxious over-thinkers into fearless future parents.
About 80% of us eventually become parents. And it’s the biggest decision and the biggest change most of us make in our lives, involving costs and commitment in the hope that it is rewarding.
Yet we don’t typically plan or prepare for parenthood. In fact we’re likely to spend WAY more time and money planning a wedding!
If we do take the time to make plans, it is likely to make having kids less anxiety-inducing, more intentional and more practically feasible. Allowing you to enjoy being a parent, without risking all the good things in your life.
Parenthood planning is an approach and philosophy I have developed for all future parents, having benefited from help to plan parenthood when I went through the adoption assessment and preparation process.
I work with individual prospective parents, adoption agencies and other organisations, to demystify having kids and help future parents work towards being better prepared.
What I offer
Inspiration to Get Started
The Preparental Blog is packed with information and inspiration to get you started with parenthood planning.
Free Weekly Videos
Sign up to my email list to receive a free weekly value-packed video on parenthood planning, as well as receiving parenthood planning insights and new offers.
Free Online Assessment
Whatever stage you’re at, take the Online Assessment to map out how prepared you are for parenthood.
Identify your planning and preparation gaps, and your priority areas to work on before you become a parent.
Courses and Tools
Short online self-paced courses (e.g. on parenthood purpose, and childcare planning) and tools (e.g. the financial planning calculator), individually available for purchase.
The Parenthood Planning Club
For just £19 / month, you can join the Club to get an All Access Pass to all my courses, resources and tools, plus the members-only Question Library of indexed videos answering your questions. You can even ask your own question and get it answered comprehensively.
Financial Planning Personal Service
The Financial PlanBuilder service is a “done-for-you” financial plan for parenthood, focusing on your household net income and childcare costs. Tell me about your situation and what scenarios you’d like to model, and I’ll write your personalised plan.
Personal Mentoring
Do you want personalised help, advice, accountability and hand-holding through your planning and preparation for parenthood? Do you want to be supported and encouraged? I offer a limited number of slots for personal mentoring support. Sessions are super-short and laser-focused. Mentoring programmes start from £599.
FEATURED BLOG POSTS
“Purposeful Parenthood Planning with Helen Cammack”
Tamsin Williamson, The Parenthood Coach, interviewed Helen Cammack, the founder of Preparental, for her ‘Do Your Thing’ podcast (it’s episode 27), about how the act of purposefully planning her experience of parenthood ahead of time has had a profound impact on how she does her thing in her life and Motherhood. How to Listen You…
Why parenthood is so hard for parents
New parents are often surprised by the challenges they face. Here’s a run down of the 6 biggest ways in which new parents find parenthood challenging, and why this is the case.
Why I became The Parenthood Planner
How I developed my mission to create fearless future parents, after spending the first 40 years of my life as a childfree corporate planner.