Planning to Get Easier for Separated Parents with Canadian Startup ‘planiCLIK’

By: Talha Bhatti  |   July 25th, 2013   |   iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada

After couples go through a divorce, planning out effectively what they want mutually and as individual for their children can be tough and at times, impossible. The distance and fractured communication can leave the mother and father confused as how to plan out the future of their children. Montreal-based startup ‘planiCLIK’ is looking to change all that as sisters Florence and Pascale Petit-Gagnon hope that their new iOS app will allow separated parents to communicate through the use of technology on a mutual platform. This will obviously limit the communication and focus more on planning, allowing the other to see just what is scheduled when the child is visiting the other parent.

 

Making it interactive for everyone involved, the child in question may also log onto the app and record their activities into the calendar. Ultimately allowing both parents to know when an important date may be coming up in the future. Statistics show that nearly 50 percent of marriages fall apart, making startups like this one even more important to maintaining healthy relationships between children and their parents.

 

The desire to not talk to the other individual after separation comes naturally and was something that Florence Petit-Gagnon experienced firsthand. It became the inspiration she needed to create planiCLICK and is confident that it may just become a way to make the lives of such parents and children a whole lot easier.

 

“I’m very aware of the situation where the parents don’t want to talk and they use the child to facilitate communication,” Florence Petit-Gagnon told Techvibes said. “Chatting with my friends, there are so many kids that are stuck in the same position. I was sort of amazed that nothing was out there, so that’s what motivated us to create a tool that would help all those people.”

 

Lyne Petit, the third co-founder and mother of the founding sisters, also played a major role in getting the app launched. She created an agenda for children of separated families, allowing them to bring it back-and-forth and not worry about losing it.

 

This only proves that there is potential in every aspect of life, and the Petit-Gagnon sisters were smart to realize it.

 

“My older sister was working in management and we both saw the opportunity of taking that product and bringing it to the web and mobile, for real-time information,” said Petit-Gagnon.

Source: TechVibes