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Working Parent No. 2  ·  October 2026

The AI Issue

AI can take an astonishing amount of work off our plates. The more interesting question is what should never have been on the plate in the first place — and what only looks like a task until you hand it to someone else.

The October issue looks at work, judgment, delegation, attention, childhood, and the invisible labor that technology can lighten, rearrange, or quietly make harder.

Inside the October issue: what AI is genuinely good for, what still requires a human mind, and what it means to raise children with technology already in the room.

The October issue arrives this week
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The September Collision

September looked at the systems that collide when school starts, the costs families absorb, and what can come off the list before the season fills itself.

01 From the desk of chaos The Life We Are Always About to Get Back To The tenderness is buried inside the chaos, not somewhere apart from it. 02 Policy brief The 3 O’Clock Problem The school day ends before the workday. Families cover the difference. 03 The working tool The Coverage Grid A simple way to see school and work conflicts before they become emergencies. 04 The fulcrum The Single Point of Failure What good leadership can teach us about building real coverage at home. 05 An oddly specific question Why Are School Buses Yellow? The answer involves 50 paint samples, seven days at Columbia University, and a yellow its own creator insisted was orange.
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