Parents — the week ran away from us. So we’re calling this one a weekend edition and coming to you Saturday morning instead of Friday night. Same conversation, one cup of coffee later.
If you’re reading this on the porch with a kid climbing on you (or hiding in the bathroom for four minutes of quiet, we see you), you’re exactly the reader we wrote this for.
Here’s what we’ve been sitting with this week.
A quick tour of what our team published and what parents are actually clicking on right now. Save whichever one is for you.
Beauty Expert Tips To Keep Your Hair Healthy & Frizz-Free All Summer — Chlorine, humidity, and one too many pool days can wreck a decent hair week. We sat down with the founder of Laced Hair for the real routine (SPF for your hair is a thing, and yes, you probably need it).
The Employee Benefits You Don’t Want To Ignore — Most working parents leave thousands on the table every year because the fall open-enrollment window gets lost in back-to-school chaos. This is the reminder to set the calendar hold now.
Cycle-Breaking Parenting: How To Stop Passing Down Generational Trauma — Your kid falls, and your mother’s exact words come out of your mouth before you can stop them. This one’s about the pause between the old script and the new one — and why repair matters more than perfection.
Open These Three Accounts For Your Kid Before They Turn 10 — Three accounts that actually build wealth for kids. Most parents open one, call it done, and skip the most powerful one entirely.
The Parenthood Together Facebook group is where the honest conversations live — and this week has been full of them. Summer camp meltdowns, the specific exhaustion of week three of no school, sunscreen brand loyalty (strong opinions), and a long thread on how to handle the friend who always seems to compare kids at pickup.
If you haven’t hopped in this week, that’s your Saturday afternoon nudge. There are almost 16,000 parents in there and someone has already asked the exact question you’re carrying around.
A few things worth loading up on the family device this weekend.
Watch — “Bluey” (Disney+). The new short-form episodes released this month are landing well with the four-to-eight crowd, and honestly with the parents watching along. If you have never sat all the way through the “Sleepytime” episode, do that first. You can read Common Sense Media’s parent guide here.
Read — The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. Not new, but back in every parenting conversation this summer as families rethink phones before high school. Worth reading whether you agree with all of it or not. Publisher page.
Listen — Taylor Swift’s back-catalog “kid mix.” If you have not built a car-ride playlist of the least-chaotic Swift tracks yet (“Shake It Off,” “ME!,” “You Belong With Me”), this is the summer for it. Screams stop, harmony starts. Everyone wins.
Weekend cart full of beach bag basics, backyard cool-down, and one thing for you, because you get one too.
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Old Navy Kids’ Rib-Knit Rashguard Swim Set — around $35 The one swim outfit that survives a full summer of pool-to-splashpad-to-beach without sun burn on shoulders you forgot to reapply on. Grab a size up.
Target Sun Squad Swim & Summer Shop — from $10 The whole beach setup in one place — umbrellas that actually stay in the sand, tents, chairs, floaties, all of it. This is where we start the beach day list. UPF 50+ picks throughout.
Ozark Trail 24-Can Insulated Cooler Backpack (Walmart) — $19.98 Keeps drinks cold from parking lot to blanket, frees both hands for the four-year-old you are chasing. This is the beach cooler that pays for itself in one weekend.
Old Navy Women’s Summer Edit — Cover-Ups & Linen — $25 and up The linen-blend cover-up you throw on over a suit, over shorts, over the fact that you have not slept properly since June. Machine wash. Pretty much everything on this page is under $50.
Target Kids’ Bucket Hats & Sun Accessories (Cat & Jack) — from $8 Covers the ears, the neck, and the spot behind the head you always miss with sunscreen. Buy two — one lives in the car. UPF 50+ styles start around eight dollars.
Zoku Classic Pop Molds — Target — around $20 Freeze whatever fruit is about to go bad in the fridge with some coconut water and you have solved snack for the week. This is the weekend project the kids will actually want to do.
Coppertone Kids Sunscreen SPF 50 & Kids’ Sunscreen Shop (Walmart) — from $9 Because you WILL run out mid-July, and the beach parking lot bottle is $28. Stock the car, the beach bag, and the diaper bag. Reapply every two hours (yes, really).
If one thing in this week’s issue helped you — the article you forwarded to your sister, the sunscreen you finally reordered, the reminder to breathe before the next hard moment — that is the whole point.
We are almost 16,000 parents deep in this thing together. Come find your people in the Facebook group, reply to this email and tell us what you’d want to see next week, and pass this along to one friend who could use it.
The village is not something you find. It is something you build. We are glad you are building it with us.
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