The Family Commons
Chloe Sladden, Lane Scott, Lindsay MeiselTactics for building supportive, real-life parent communities. Data and cultural insights behind why it's so hard. Encouragement to do it anyway.
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Selfish Reasons to Send Your Kid to Public School
Note from Chloe: This guest post by Lindsay Meisel illuminates something many of us have been missing: going to your neighborhood public school, especially for elementary school, is one of the best community-building hacks available to pare...
Community by Necessity
You won’t find community until you truly need it.
When we first moved to the California Gold Country where we would raise our five children, we had absolutely no community. My parents were still in town, but all my siblings were either in...
5 community norms every parent deserves
I write a lot about how to build stronger, more connected parenting communities1. But communities have atrophied so much that many of us can’t even picture what they look like anymore. We might have a faint memory of it from our own childho...
The first line of defense against school shootings isn't security—it's connection
I saw a post on Reddit the other day written by a mom upset by something that happened in her daughter’s first week of kindergarten. The girl had lost a name tag, and the mom wanted to walk her back to class to retrieve it, but the school p...
What happened to school directories?
I swear, schools used to give these out!
Does your child’s school provide a directory with parent contact info? If it’s like most schools, the answer is probably not.
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Mom to three girls. Co-founder of Honeycomb. Creating the tools and cultural change to rebuild real-life, place-based parent communities at scale. Because everything is better when we parent together.
American Political Theory PhD, Catholic mother of five. Raising meat, veg, and flowers on our California ranch. Homeschooling littles/public schooling high schoolers. My husband runs a 100 year+ USA manufacturing co and we remodel houses together.
Writer and mom of two in SF
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