This week, Claire and Quinn ask: How do you raise charitable, empathetic kids when you can barely manage getting them to put their dishes in the sink? Topics include when your anti-gun household meets the school rummage sale Nerf gun haul, teaching empathy vs. performative wokeness, the privilege and burden of school parent organizations, why showing up to volunteer isn't always helpful (and when it is), and a list of some of the most effective charities out there.

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• Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation https://www.alexslemonade.org/
• Give Directly https://www.givedirectly.org/
• Against Malaria Foundation https://www.againstmalaria.com/
• Donors Choose https://www.donorschoose.org/
• Food Forward https://foodforward.org/
• The 19th https://19thnews.org/
• ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/
• Capital B https://capitalbnews.org/
• The Markup https://themarkup.org/
• Hot Bread Kitchen https://hotbreadkitchen.org/
• Hollywood Food Coalition https://hofoco.org/
• Feed My Starving Children https://www.fmsc.org/
• Connections for the Homeless https://www.connect2home.org/

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This week Claire and Quinn welcome their first guest, Lindsey Stanberry, founder of The Purse and former editor at Fortune.

Together they explore how to teach kids about money in 2025 -- from birthday party gift overload to teaching financial literacy when you can barely manage your own finances.

We cover tales of $80 silent action mishaps, pricey raspberry juice experiments, and why nobody wants to be their kid's personal banker.

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• Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You're Not) by Beth Kobliner
• The Purse by Lindsey Stanberry https://thepurse.substack.com/

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Parenting and sleep deprivation.

From military-precise sleep training schedules to the anxiety spiral of a child who won't sleep, they share their brutally honest experiences with getting children (and themselves) to bed. Featuring tales of nine (yes, nine) pillow sleep systems, headbanging toddlers, and why separate bedrooms might save your marriage.

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• Hatch alarm clocks
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• Feals sleep gummies
• Sleep mediation machines for kids
• Merlin sleep suit

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This week, we talk about the humbling experience of parenthood and how reality shatters expectations.

We cover:

• The gap between pre-parenting fantasies (museum trips and Christmas traditions) versus post-kid realities (barbecue chip crumbs in the car)
• Why buying your postpartum wife lingerie is a terrible idea
• How having children affects relationships and identities

Parenting might not be what you imagined, but finding humor in the chaos makes it all a little more manageable, even when you're the parent bringing yogurt-covered raisin snacks to baseball that no child actually wants (at least you tried!)

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• Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America by Rachel Louise Moran

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In our first bonus Q&A episode, Quinn and Claire tackle listener questions with their signature blend of honesty, humor, and zero judgment.

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• Making parent friends: Is it a real connection or just shared misery? What makes friendship work during the parenting years, the importance of finding your parenting community, and why it's okay if some friendships are just "for the season"
• Supporting a child with ADHD: Quinn and Claire share personal experiences with ADHD in their families, including medication journeys, therapy challenges, and finding support at school

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• Teacher intro email template https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Crw0HoibRpSt8kBGmYIAjLRGFf38Pq0pXpedZg9R_c/edit?tab=t.0

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This week, Quinn and Claire dive into traveling with kids.

They share personal stories about family trips from their own childhoods and with their children now, covering everything from dealing with jetlag to bathroom emergencies at 30,000 feet.

Also discussed: the myth of "vacation" with children (let's just call it a "family trip"), tips and tricks for making travel less hellish, how to make travel more meaningful, the necessity of getting occasional breaks from your kids, and as always, the importance of lower expectations.

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• 3D Rendering of historical Mexico City
• Patagonia Black Hole Bags
• Sound machine for kids
• NUUN hydration tablets

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This week, Claire and Quinn dig into the minefield of youth sports: understimulated kids who are getting on everyone's nerves vs. overscheduled families who have no time to breathe, the horrors of early-season kid-pitch baseball, the importance (or not) of having "hustle", and what is the point of kids sports, anyways?

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This week, Claire and Quinn lament on the endless influx of STUFF that children seem to magically manifest in your home. From mysterious bouncy balls to apple juice containers full of sand to fantasies of cleansing fires, they explore the anxiety and dread created by attempting to manage the unmanageable (spoiler alert: yeah, recycling isn't real. Have a great day!)

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