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Twenty Summer Projects Kids Will Actually Finish

A treehouse, a lemonade stand, a garden bed, and seventeen more — with the parts the instructions leave out.

StoryHumorMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

How the Cleanest Comedians in America Got the Biggest Laughs

Jack Benny, Bob Newhart and Brian Regan built careers on jokes you can repeat in front of your kids. The craft is learnable. Steal it.

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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GuideSchool & LearningSam Ortiz23 Sept 20266 min

The College Visit Questions That Actually Tell You Something

The tour is a 90-minute commercial. Get off it early, split up from your kid, and ask the six things the script never covers.

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Boys & Girls6 min read

Read the Report Card Backwards

The letter grades are the least useful part of the page. Start with attendance, then conduct, then the comments, and you'll actually know your kid.

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How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideMovies & TVMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

The American Biopics Actually Worth Your Saturday Night

Thirteen real lives on film, with runtimes, ratings, the content concerns named plainly, and which ones the kids can actually sit through.

GuideSchool & LearningAde Fisher23 Sept 20266 min

Choose a Major That Someone Will Actually Hire

Before your kid signs for four years and six figures, run the three-posting test at the kitchen table. It takes twenty minutes.

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GuideBoys & GirlsSam Ortiz23 Sept 20265 min

Stop Rescuing Your Kids From Boredom

The whining is the toll booth, not the destination. What to say, what to stock the house with, and why the first two weeks are so loud.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideMovies & TVMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

Old Movies Grandparents and Grandkids Can Actually Finish

A working plan for the couch: which classics hold a seven-year-old, which ones need a warning first, and the fifteen-minute trick that beats black-and-white resistance.

GuideSchool & LearningAde Fisher23 Sept 20265 min

The Study Methods That Work and the Ones Wasting Your Kid's Night

Highlighting feels productive and does almost nothing. Retrieval, spacing and mixed practice do the heavy lifting, and they take less time.

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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideBoys & GirlsWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Give Your Kids Their Saturdays Back, Mud and All

A practical plan for three unsupervised hours a week, what to hand them, what will go wrong, and how to keep your nerve on the porch.

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GuideMovies & TVMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Old TV Shows That Still Work on Modern Kids

What actually holds a nine-year-old's attention from 1960, what to preview first, and how to watch it without paying for four streaming services.

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When did you last ask for a raise?

GuideSchool & LearningAde Fisher23 Sept 20265 min

SAT and ACT Prep Without Paying for a Course

A twelve-week plan built on free official material, one notebook, and Saturday mornings your kid will complain about.

GuideBoys & GirlsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Discipline Without Yelling Starts With Saying It Once

The volume isn't the problem. The problem is the fourth warning, and the kid who already knows you don't mean the first three.</the>

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GuideMovies & TVWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Survival Films Worth Pausing to Talk About With Your Kids

What one man can do, another can do — and a handful of adventure movies that actually teach it, with the content concerns named up front.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

School & Learning6 min

Run These Numbers Before Your Kid Signs a College Loan

Boys & Girls6 min

What Your Four, Eight and Twelve Year Old Can Actually Do

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Plan a cook for eight people

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GuideMusicDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

The First Ninety Days of Learning Guitar as a Grown Man

Fifteen minutes a day, four chords, and one song you can play for your kids by Easter. What actually works, and what wastes your first month.

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Movies & TV5 min read

The Classic Movies Your Kids Should See Before Thirteen

An age-by-age viewing ladder, with the content concerns named up front and the ones that will lose a kid in six minutes flagged.

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