Contributors

This page collects the HowTo Family columns. Most are by Rebecca, a parent writing from experience across several decades of raising children. Each piece takes one recurring family situation and turns it into a routine or a conversation that holds up in real life.

Several of Rebecca's columns cover daily routines with young children. They include toddler bedtime, a school morning that runs itself by moving decisions to the night before, and baby-proofing organized by crawling stage rather than for the whole house at once. Others deal with money and rules for older kids. One explains allowance systems where the lesson comes from letting the money run out. Another covers screen-time contracts that children will actually sign because they get something in return. One more explains renters insurance, and why a landlord's policy does not cover a tenant's belongings.

Rebecca also writes about keeping a family connected. She covers a family game night that works for a five-year-old and a fifteen-year-old, an hour-by-hour road trip kit, and why long-distance grandparents do better with a consistent weekly call than with more calls. She also covers having the assisted-living conversation with an aging parent as a series of small talks. Priya contributes a hands-on test of five common slime recipes, explaining which worked and why. JT, the network's founder, contributes "What He Got Right", a Father's Day letter about his father.