The Family Commons
Chloe Sladden, 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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Please Stop Making Your Kid’s Birthday a Wedding
In the last few months, both the WSJ and the NYT ran features about “lazy parents” who cap their kids’ extracurriculars to one at a time, let them roam the neighborhood without location tracking, and decline to pair their socks. My first re...
Have a parent village? I want to interview you!
You’re not parenting wrong. You’re just parenting alone.
That’s the line that resonated with tens of thousands of exhausted parents who read my work here — and it’s the thesis of the book 🎉 I’m writing now.
Here’s one of my core ideas: y...
Send me your lazy parenting examples
If you want muffins for the bake sale, make them yourself! {Photo by Derek Owens on Unsplash}
Hey everyone,
With three kids, the last few weeks of the school year are absolutely insane for my family. It’s just this constant barrage of fie...
15 new etiquette rules for community building
You can tell a lot about a culture’s values by looking at its etiquette: In a culture that values community and connection, you can ask a friend for a ride to the airport. You avoid being loud or messy in public spaces, because you care abo...
Your husband isn’t an introvert. He’s just a man.
One of the core pieces of advice I give to parents who want stronger community is to make a habit of regularly hosting other families. Having someone inside your home is intimate and vulnerable, and in my experience, one of the fastest ways...
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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.
Writer and mom of two in SF
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