About Us

SWparents.com is about supporting, educating and inspiring the folks who have the most important job on Earth – Parents! With about 110,000 members, SWparents features articles and videos for toddler through teenage-related parenting topics on everything from potty training tips, handling siblings who squabble to helping your teenager land college scholarships. Since parents also juggle money management, career change and marriage, we also have a special place on the site for “life” topics, too.

I’m Kate Raidt. I’m the founder and content director for SWparents. I sold books door-to-door for Southwestern Advantage for 10 summers. When I became a parent, I realized that the Southwestern Company offered amazing educational products to millions of parents for their children, but nothing to the parents for the parents themselves. Hence the birth of SWparents.

I hope you will share SWparents with your friends, neighbors, family, teachers, babysitters, soccer moms…and even the Octomom.

Our featured content includes:

• Q&A videos from top parenting experts
• Role-playing video examples
• Real parenting coaching videos
• Kate’s Kitchen – a healthy cooking show
• Cassi’s Corner – how a single mom has turned tragedy into triumph
• Parenting Quizzes
• Hundreds of articles
• Rolling with the Raidts reality show

Some of our most popular articles and videos include:

• Children and Chores: How to Get Help Around the House
• 5 Signs of a Good Daycare
• 9 Tips for Talking to Teens
• 25 Ways to Save on Your Monthly Bills
• 1 Terrific Toilet Training Tip