Greatvine is a company that brings together experts on parenting as well as health, business and writing. You can read articles, buy downloads or speak directly to an expert by phone. The max call cost per minute is £1.53 and the average call cost is around £20. Here’s some really good feedback on Greatvine from people who have used the confidential telephone service.
Apparently Greatvine’s most common subjects relating to parenting are anxiety and depression, including post-natal depression, child behaviour, baby sleep, relationships and bullying.
I haven’t used the service myself (not yet anyway) but I can see that it could save a lot of time and stress – I remember when Tom spent hours driving Betty around the countryside in an attempt to get her off to sleep at night, for at least the first 5 weeks of her life – I’m sure Greatvine and their sleep expert Chireal Shallow would have offered some more rational approaches to the problem…
The 100+ experts (ie highly qualified people with decades of professional experience) aren’t just childcare specialists but can offer help on a really wide range of subjects from self-esteem and costume design to small business investment and fixing problems with your computer. I even found an article called ‘the 10 commandments of karaoke leadership’ – not sure what that’s all about, but there’s clearly something for everyone here!
