The person behind ParentGlow
Hi — I'm Joe.
Founder of ParentGlow. Building the calm, kids-first way to co-parent — because every child deserves a happy childhood.
Why this is personal
It started close to home.
ParentGlow didn't start in a boardroom. It started with a belief I've carried a long time: every child deserves a happy childhood — and the surest way to protect it is for parents to keep the kids first, even when they're no longer together.
I grew up in a home shaped by control and conflict. What I remember just as clearly is a mother who made sure my siblings and I still had a happy childhood anyway. That contrast — how much one parent's choices can shape, or shield, a child — never left me.
Years later, as the partner of a parent raising a child across two homes, I've seen the same thing from the other side: how a single tense handover can sour a whole week, how fast it can escalate toward solicitors and court, and how much weight the person doing the right thing ends up carrying.
So I started building the calm, fair tool I wished existed — UK-built, your data always yours, no per-parent tax, everything designed to take the heat out of co-parenting instead of stoking it. We build for the children first. Everything else follows from that.
— Joe, founder of ParentGlow
What I write about
I write the practical guides on this site — drawn from UK family-law language and how separated family life actually works, not US "custody" software. The honest aim: help you spend less energy fighting and more on the kids.
From the blog
Longer reads on the everyday reality of co-parenting — all written by me.
Say hello
ParentGlow is a small, deliberate project — not a faceless corporation or a venture-backed machine. Email hello@parentglow.co.uk and you'll hear back from me, not a ticket number. If something here helped — or if you think we've got something wrong — I'd genuinely like to know.
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