Online parenting resource Kids in the House is celebrating Pride month with a special Pride video playlist, which culls together several videos focusing specifically on topics of concern for LGBT parents or parents of LGBT kids.
Mother and entrepreneur Leana Greene started Kids in the House to help provide access to experts on a slew of parenting topics to every parent.
"The purpose is to give parents quick and easy access to information," Greene said. "You want to be a great parent, you want to read all the books and take all the seminars but you don't have time to do it, this way you can have access to any experts in a very quick way.
"This way everybody has access to the number one guy from Harvard who talks about ADHD [attention deficit hyperactivity disorder], and everybody has access to all these great experts that they probably wouldn't have access to otherwise."
The special Pride playlist addresses common LGBT topics of interest such as dealing with harassment, learning acceptance, LGBT teens and depression, same-sex adoption processes, identity and much more.
Greene said that being inclusive of LGBT parents and LGBT kids was important to her from the get go and she is glad to be able to offer parents this resource.
"I think it's really important to educate parents that you are born gay or transgender," Greene said. "I think if the child does not get seen for who they are from the beginning and to really get appreciated for who they are, it's a very devastating thing. So it was very important to us to have a very strong both transgender and LGB help for parents to really help educate parents.
"We have worked really hard to include all kinds of parents, gay parents, straight parents, young parents, single parents, both from the parents perspective, but also its important to note, a lot of times gay children or transgender kids have a straight parent, so that is where we also really want to focus."
Greene sought out well-known experts to ensure that each topic had the most relevant and up-to-date information.
Some of the experts who's advice can be found on the Pride playlist are: notable same-sex parents and adoption experts Bill Horn and Scout Masterson, of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, Wendy Walsh, co-host of the hit CBS show The Doctors, and a variety of experts and parents with personal experience in the areas of adoption law, the benefits same-sex parenting, discussing gender roles, LGBT myths, sexual identity in teens and more.
Greene noted that one of her personal video favorites is one in which gay father Chris Rice talks about how he feels like any other parent until he walks out his door and then he feels like he has to be a better parent because he feels the pressure of having to prove that being a gay parent is the same.
In addition to being a resource for parents to learn more about topics they are interested in Greene said that the website also has a social media aspect, which helps parents dealing with similar issues to connect.
"Two of my favorite features, the parent-to-parent community, where you can actually create your own community or you can search for people who might have similar interests or who might be dealing with similar problems," she said. "So if your kid is being bullied you can search for other parents that are dealing with that same issue.
"And also you can create playlists to send somebody. If you are dealing with a certain issue you can put together a playlist, your friends baby is not sleeping, you can put together a playlist for that person and share that playlist so the person doesn't have to do the search themself."
All the videos are free to watch and are between one to two minutes in length, with most of the experts and parents included having multiple videos on their respective topics.
To watch videos, visit www.kidsinthehouse.com/