Bright by Text (BBT) recently renamed as Lantern is a FREE state of the art, user friendly tool for parents to receive evidence-based parenting information, resources and info on local events related to families through a text message.
The text message is geared specially to a child’s or children’s ages. Parents can signup for more than one child in their family receiving age specific information related to their individual children’s ages. Parent can choose to opt out of receiving texts at any time and it’s a FREE service.
If the text is on a subject or item that particularly interests a parent, the parent can click on the text and it will send the user to a landing page with more information, videos and other evidence based sources on the topic.
The Parenting Cottage has partnered with United Way Texas, Texas PBS, TTU-Public Media/PBS to bring BBT to Lubbock County. Parents utilizing it indicate a high degree of satisfaction with the services.
Currently over 2,800 families in Lubbock County have signed up for text services. It’s a safe and secure site–only a child’s date of birth and your zip code is required to register.
