Sunday Reading List Volume 6

And didn’t just see a Tik Tok about! (no shade in that either. Tik Tok research matters too).

⚽️ US Soccer’s Pay-to-Play Problem (NYT): It’s almost like making everything capitalism doesn’t make us great? The way other countries approach sports seems not that hard.

In other countries, youth soccer is often subsidized by governments or professional soccer clubs. But in the U.S., under the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, the federal government does not fund any Olympic sports. And until the 2000s, there were no stable professional clubs with youth arms.

🏀 Letting trans players into sports isn’t scaring girls away from sports (The 74): Data is my love language, proving transphobics wrong is my love language, this is a great article.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒 The deal with teen takeovers (The Atlantic): This explains what teen takeovers are and why they’ve taken over the media recently. One super interesting takeaway for me is how the structure and sources of crime reporting has changed so much that it’s harder to tell what’s going on.

🚸 What happens to parentified children when they become adults (Substack): This is a must-read for anyone who has people in their lives who were parentified as kids.

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📚 Every Summer After was our book club book, thought I would hate it but finished it in 3 days. A lot of feel goods and a little spice.

🎀 I don’t mean to be dramatic but organizing our household’s hair supplies into this is life changing and I ordered a second one for our lifetime supply of Play Doh accessories.

⏲️ Speaking of organizing, this for kids’ water bottles and this for adult bottles has seriously cleaned up my under counter cabinet.

📸 I’m obsessed with my photo wall that only took me three months of unemployment to get around to.

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Why don't schools accommodate workplace hours?

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Jul 10

Social media is currently filled with people (mostly moms) pondering why the education system doesn’t mirror work hours, which is likely blowing up right now because parents (mostly moms) are doing the impossible juggling act of managing summer camps, kids’ schedules, work schedules, and breathing at the same time. And …

Want a 90s summer? Here's what it looked like

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Jun 30

Every parent I know is being told to give our kids a 90s summer, so I looked up what this actually looked like– by the numbers. Even though I lived it, I was surprised by what I found. If we’re going to have this much pressure, I need it to be data-based so pull up a seat and let’s map this out.

I’m gonna be honest, it’s too damn hot to enjoy food right now. I subsisted on mostly salsa and guac. I tried and failed at a cold noodle salad and I discovered I like dense bean salads for approximately one meal and then cannot even look at them (unfortunate for the 5 serving batch I made).

Please share inspiration for food that you’re enjoying in this heat, I need SOMETHING. Especially if you have a good cold noodle salad.

Hi! I’m Lindsay, mom of 2 with an MBA who has worked almost 2 decades in education including ed policy, based in Washington, D.C. I research everything to a fault and share it here because my group texts are exhausted by me. I write about education policy (because when we’re informed we’re empowered) and the realities of modern parenting (because we’re all in this together). Pull up a seat and join the community!

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