Creative family life,
across generations.
The Artful Parent is a magazine for families who want more connection, imagination, and emotional depth in everyday life. Steered by Editors-in-Chief Graeme and Jeanette Brown.
What we cover
The home as a studio
Parenting, grandparents, grown children, family roles, memory, rituals, and the small creative choices that make a home feel alive.
The years that shape us
Development, imagination, feelings, play, learning, confidence, and the practical realities of helping children grow.
Making as connection
Hands-on projects, seasonal crafts, sensory play, drawing, painting, collage, and the creative archive that made The Artful Parent beloved.
We treat creativity as something bigger than crafts. It is how families notice each other, repair, remember, and keep becoming.
Who steers the magazine
Graeme and Jeanette Brown — a husband-and-wife team, grandparents, and parents of writer Lachlan Brown — serve as Editors-in-Chief. Meet the full masthead, including this week’s writers, on our Masthead page.
Graeme Brown
Editor-in-Chief
Graeme Brown is Editor-in-Chief of The Artful Parent alongside his wife, Jeanette. A founder of The Expert Editor, Australia's leading online editing and proofreading company, he has spent a career refining other people's words — and now brings that same…
Jeanette Brown
Editor-in-Chief
Jeanette Brown is Editor-in-Chief of The Artful Parent with her husband, Graeme. A writer, retired education leader, and career coach based in Australia, she spent decades in classrooms and leading education teams before turning to the questions that stay with…
Editorial standards
- Every published piece is reviewed and approved by a member of our team before it goes live. AI tools are a substantial part of how we produce The Artful Parent: they help find and organise sources, draft, edit, check facts and links, and audit published work, and they may produce much of an initial draft. Where an editor is named on an article, that is the person who reviewed it. Important factual claims are supportable and important sources are linked. We say that we interviewed, contacted or investigated something only when we did.
- Quotations are attributed. Images carry credits where available.
- We correct confirmed errors promptly. Material corrections carry a dated note explaining what changed. Articles whose central premise cannot stand are withdrawn, with a notice left at the original address where appropriate.
- We follow established journalistic practice for sensitive topics: medical, financial, and mental-health content is published with appropriate disclaimers and links to qualified professional advice.
- Where an article contains an affiliate link or recommends a product or service connected to Brown Brothers Media, its founders, its staff or their families, that relationship is disclosed in the article near the recommendation.
Corrections
Found an error? Email [email protected] with the article URL and a description of what needs correcting. We review every report we receive, and material corrections carry a dated note explaining the change. Full process: Corrections.
Get in touch
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Ownership & independence
The Artful Parent is published by Brown Brothers Media. Display advertising is served by Adnimation / Setupad, with Taboola content recommendations. Editorial decisions are independent of advertisers, sponsors, and external parties.