Parenting Power Information

Julie Freedman Smith and Gail Bell are Canada’s go-to parenting support team! The two co-founded Parenting Power in 2002. Their combined experience in the education sector set them up perfectly to support parents in facing the everyday parenting challenges of life. Their clients range from individual families to large scale companies seeking to support their employees in feeling confident, capable and calm at home so that they can arrive focused and ready to work. Julie and Gail believe that there is more than one right way to parent and combine research-based information, humorous anecdotes and parenting-tools-to-use resulting in audiences and clients ready to face their real-life parenting challenges head on! Their first book, A YEAR of Intentional Parenting, praised by world-renowned parenting expert, Barbara Coloroso, guides parents in finding their ‘right way to parent.’ In 2017, Julie and Gail were featured on WomenofInfluence.com. You will regularly find them quoted in the National Post, the Globe and Mail, Today’s Parent Magazine, Canadian Families Magazine, GlobalNews.ca, and CBC.ca. You’ll also see and hear them on CityTV’s Breakfast Television, CTV, Global, and CBC Radio One (locally, provincially and nationally). In 2018, Parenting Power launched their Real Life Parenting Podcast, available weekly on iTunes and GooglePlay.