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Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents

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Re: Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents

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Post by elliotec »

eba7keb wrote: post #14
jawns wrote: post #7

I'm an author of child-development books and spend a lot of time keeping abreast of research-backed parenting advice, so this is really interesting to me. It seems like you need to position this service very carefully, since there is likely not a bright line between some of the issues parents might come to you for, versus seeing a pediatrician, behavioral health provider, or other health care provider. And indeed, tr…

Lots of great thoughts here, thank you for sharing them. The line between parent support and parent coaching and behavioral health requires great care in navigation - I agree with you. Before I started Trustle, I worked both as a child psychologist in a traditional capacity, and provided video-based parent coaching. There are a LOT of parent support organizations that don't use credentialed providers because of the n…

You should figure out how to get medical staff and bill insurance. The service is really expensive to just be replacing googling.

Re: Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents

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Post by zoomablemind »

eba7keb wrote: post #106
zoomablemind wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how to interpret your response. If a parent is a practitioner of "strong-hand" approach. Your experts would suggest which side of the hand to use or not on which child's body part? It's absurd, of course, the experts do develop their values and indeed philosophy based on their experience. Even AI based advisor would be acting according to programmed balances and checks. Thus the importance of how you tel…

Maybe I can try :). I think there is a distinction between philosophy and evidence-based advice and information. For example, there is evidence from research that spanking has negative consequences on development - so we would lead with that evidence. As a different example, let's take sleep - lots of different philosophies, and the research isn't clear on impact on development regarding which sleep approach is used.…

> The balance and check is that its' evidence-based advice, not opinion.

Is there any particular body of research that supports your evidence-based advice? I assume this reasearch is public, as to be validated.

Re: Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents

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Post by eba7keb »

jbpnoy6fifty wrote: post #110

I would love to help with this. This was one of my team's published ideas when taking a Mastering Design Thinking class at MIT / Emeritus Please feel free to link up on LinkedIn. linkedin.com/in/ladorabl I'm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, if you are free to chat over coffee or have a phone/skype conversation. I've also worked with a couple of friends to help design an ML platform to accelerate learning in the e…

Thanks for posting - very cool! Send us an email at founders@trustle.com :)

Re: Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents

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Post by eba7keb »

elliotec wrote: post #111
eba7keb wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of great thoughts here, thank you for sharing them. The line between parent support and parent coaching and behavioral health requires great care in navigation - I agree with you. Before I started Trustle, I worked both as a child psychologist in a traditional capacity, and provided video-based parent coaching. There are a LOT of parent support organizations that don't use credentialed providers because of the n…

You should figure out how to get medical staff and bill insurance. The service is really expensive to just be replacing googling.

It would be awesome if we could figure out how to get insurance to cover this type of support. I also don't think it just replaces that. Parents spend a ton of money on books, courses, etc. There is also the time factor (we save parents a lot of time), and filling the need of parents who might go see a therapist to get support, but don't really need that level of support. We are also priced well below the market for parent coaches and sleep consultants (usually $150 a session).

Re: Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents

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Post by eba7keb »

zoomablemind wrote: post #112
eba7keb wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I can try :). I think there is a distinction between philosophy and evidence-based advice and information. For example, there is evidence from research that spanking has negative consequences on development - so we would lead with that evidence. As a different example, let's take sleep - lots of different philosophies, and the research isn't clear on impact on development regarding which sleep approach is used.…

> The balance and check is that its' evidence-based advice, not opinion. Is there any particular body of research that supports your evidence-based advice? I assume this reasearch is public, as to be validated.

Are you asking if there is a body of research about child development/sleep/behavior management/learning in children? Yes, there is. Yes, it is public (and diffuse). And it is often misinterpreted and over/under-stated in parenting blogs and books (screen time is a great example of this). There are contradictory studies, but you have to look carefully and weigh the merits of the study (is it correlational? is it a valid study? what are the confounding variables? what is the size of the sample? what are the researchers conclusions?).

Have you ever read Emily Oster? She talks a lot about deciphering the data on pregnancy and caring for children (she wrote expecting better and crib sheet). It's messy science, but there is absolutely data. All the more reason a professional can support a parent to understand how (if) it applies to them and could inform decisions they make when working through a challenge.

Re: Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents

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Post by lotsofpulp »

avip wrote: post #62

This is indeed pretty depressing. The ongoing disintegration of the normative human society, loss of extended family structures, and escalating segmentation of what used to be a community to different age and class groups well separated in spacetime is a world-wide disaster with far-reaching ripples. One of the obvious consequences is for-profit organizations entering the vacuum left by communities. Of course Elizabe…

>The ongoing disintegration of the normative human society, loss of extended family structures, and escalating segmentation of what used to be a community to different age and class groups well separated in spacetime is a world-wide disaster with far-reaching ripples.

My theory is that this is the true price of obtaining financial freedom, and hence actual freedom. Community requires compromise (sometimes unfairly more from some than others). But once the glue of economic dependence on one another is removed, what is the force that would make people compromise? Everyone can do their own thing, which is nice, but seems to have some pretty big unforeseen large scale downsides that are slowly revealing themselves.

Re: Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents

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Post by tropo »

eba7keb wrote: post #95
meristem wrote: post #87

Question for the founders: what are your experts’ certifications? How are you managing state-by-state laws regarding counseling, be that MFTs or PsyDs?

Our experts have a range of certifications - we have PhD's, mater's level educators with degrees in child development, PsyDs, BCBAs, LMFTs (to name a few). While the state by state laws are changing all the time, the restrictions are around the service provided. Our experts have the background information on child development, and the experience working with families, but we are not providing counseling, therapy or d…

The one legitimate qualification is missing: having had lots of kids. For example: 4 sons, 4 daughters, and at least 10 grandkids.

Child development industry fads come and go, sometimes drifting away from sanity and reality.

Re: Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents

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Post by tropo »

eba7keb wrote: post #99
DanBC wrote: post #88

What's your safeguarding policy? When do you refer families to child protection social services? Do you know the process for doing that in all the places you operate in?

Yes - all of our providers are mandated reporters. We also have manuals and trainings on this process and procedure (but as licensed professionals, they are very familiar with this process, as it is a required part of being a licensed provider).

This is why only a fool would use the service for real problems.

If you can find a way out of that, for example by avoiding knowledge of identity, the service could be safe to use. Maybe you could take payment in a privacy-protecting cryptocurrency (not Bitcoin) and have the users connect with a tor browser.

Re: Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents

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Post by 2arrs2ells »

My wife and I had our first kid almost four months ago. Trustle connected us with an amazing coach (Alina!) who’s been amazing at fielding our questions around feeding and sleep. We’re much calmer parents with a happier baby thanks to Trustle.
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