Clever Parents is the website for smart, successful parents. The Clever Parents site is for all parents—moms and dads—who are figuring out ways to get the most out of every day and every dollar and who do it in a way that’s healthy, fun, and… clever. Clever Parents enlists a community of Clever Parents for advice, content, products and interviews that inform and inspire. Stylish, instructive, useful, inspirational, and sometimes irreverent, Clever Parents isn’t another parenting site - it is a site for parents.

Please feel free to browse, contribute to the site, or submit your comments to any of our posts or articles.

About the Founders

David and Kris Jackson are the founders of Clever Parents and Clever Parents TV and live in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Prior to founding Clever Parents, both David and Kris worked for start-up technology companies. David has held a range of executive positions in sales, channel management and marketing. Kris has worked in various senior level marketing and product management roles.

When they are not working on Clever Parents, they are trying their best to be Clever Parents to their three sons, Henry (4), Will (3) and baby Charles.

When they used to have spare time they enjoyed triathlons, kayaking, running, travel, hiking, mountain biking, and renovating their house.

Contact us at:

Clever Parents
514 Daniels Street
Suite 270
Raleigh, North Carolina 27605

or via email at info@cleverparents.com

About Operation Shower

In 2007, David and Kris teamed up with Lena Morrissey of Lena’s Notebook to form Operation Shower, a non-profit organization that organizes and throws baby showers for new and expectant moms whose spouses are deployed overseas.

In less than a year, Operation Shower has celebrated more than 100 women through unit wide showers and ’showers in a box’, delivering tens of thousands of dollars worth of baby, mom and dad gear to these deserving families. Learn more at www.OperationShower.org

The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 5, 2006
Staff Writer: Adrienne Johnson Martin

OUTSMARTING THE PARENT TRAP
A Triangle couple’s Web site aims to inspire resourcefulness

Kris and David Jackson aren’t saying they are perfect parents.

Not at all.

The Raleigh couple, parents of nearly 3-year-old Henry and 18-month-old Will, are aiming more for something along the lines of adroit. Read the rest.

August 28, 2006. Clever Parents co-founders David and Kris Jackson were featured today on the WBIR-TV NBC Style Show by co-hosts Moira Kaye and Michele Silva.

by Kate Bartkiewicz
Triathlete Magazine, June 2006

Do you log miles while pushing a stroller? Do you incorporate yoga bends into picking up toys? Does the word balance mean more than just an energy bar to you? Well, you just might be a clever parent, and there is a whole Web site dedicated to your excellent time-management skills. We asked Kris and David Jackson, founders of www.cleverparents.com, to fit in a few questions somewhere between training and naptime. Read the rest.

RALEIGH, N.C. (NBC17.com) May 1, 2006

See video of the Clever Parents Feature Story on NBC-17.

May 1, 2006. NBC17.com

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Web site developed by a local couple offers clever tips for harried parents looking for ways to manage their lives.

Time becomes even more valuable for people once they become parents, and Kris and David Jackson said being clever is the key to making the most out of every day and every dollar.

So, the Jacksons created www.cleverparents.com and have collected information from parents far and wide for their thoughts and advice on family life.

“It’s a community-driven almanac for parents,” David Jackson said. Read the rest.

Raleigh, North Carolina (PRWEB) April 19, 2006 — Clever Parents (www.cleverparents.com) the website for smart, successful parents has officially launched. Clever Parents is different from other parenting media in that it focuses on parents, not just parenting.Clever Parents taps into an expanding community of smart, successful parents who provide regular columns, ideas and product advice about a variety of lifestyle topics. The site also highlights Clever Parent entrepreneurs and ‘parentrepreneurs’ with feature interviews. Read the rest.