The Family Commons

Selfish Reasons to Send Your Kid to Public School

You can buy a tutor, but you can't buy a village

Feb 4 • Lindsay Meisel

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December 2025

Community by Necessity

Why you can't buy the village you're looking for

Dec 2, 2025 • Lane Scott

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October 2025

5 community norms every parent deserves

… but few of us have

Oct 14, 2025 • Chloe Sladden

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September 2025

The first line of defense against school shootings isn't security—it's connection

How security theater undermines school safety

Sep 18, 2025 • Chloe Sladden

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What happened to school directories?

How privacy-obsessed parents are ruining it for the rest of us

Sep 3, 2025 • Chloe Sladden

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August 2025

Case study: the parent village of Mt. Airy

How one mom tentatively put out the call for parent community … and was blown away by the response.

Aug 27, 2025 • Leah Olude

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Fair Play didn’t work for me. This did.

The system my partner and I used to make life with 3 kids feel sane & and not hate each other.

Aug 4, 2025 • Chloe Sladden

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July 2025

My Beef with Fair Play

What if the problem isn’t your partner?

Jul 23, 2025 • Chloe Sladden

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How (and why) to do pop-up communes

And why they are especially great for families

Jul 16, 2025 • Chloe Sladden

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Hosting is hard. Do it anyway.

It’s the best way to fast track community.

Jul 11, 2025 • Chloe Sladden

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April 2025

Community Didn't Solve All of My Parenting Problems. Just 99% of Them.

How to build the essential infrastructure of modern parenting

Apr 18, 2025 • Chloe Sladden

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