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  • Issue #87: See spring another way (March 19, 2023)
    Shift your perspective this equinox.
  • Issue #86: Shamrock shakedown (March 5, 2023)
    Is your holiday one of the “fun” ones?
  • Issue #85: Beyond the swipe—scroll—repeat (February 19, 2023)
    Your 🔥 questions about tech.
  • Issue #84: Goodbye “screen time,” hello “digital humanity” (February 5, 2023)
    Resilient, savvy kids online.
  • Issue #83: Ditching Harry Potter; honoring LNY + BHM (January 22, 2023)
    Problematic faves + Year of the Rabbit/Cat.
  • Issue #82: What’s your family story? (January 8, 2023)
    Radical record-keeping (or record-correcting, or record-complicating).
  • Issue #81: A laugh, a pause, or a really good cry (December 18, 2022)
    Little glimmers at the end of the year.
  • Issue #80: When going “home” takes courage (December 4, 2022)
    Tips for talking to relatives + extra gift ideas.
  • Issue #79: Gifts for the world you wanna see (November 20, 2022)
    Ideas for lovers, haters, and dreamers.
  • Issue #78: “Is Finders Keepers real?” (November 6, 2022)
    A proverb of “dubious ethical merit.”
  • Issue #77: Everyone needs to know about perimenopause (October 16, 2022)
    Sustainable period products; sex ed; periods’ roller-coaster finale.
  • Issue #76: PERIODS 🔴😬😅😳😖🙄🤗😰🔴 (October 3, 2022)
    Back from hiatus and surfing the crimson wave.
  • Issue #75: Uvalde’s Little League + Early racial learning + Sept hiatus (August 21, 2022)
    Longer reads and resources to chew on.
  • Issue #74: What does your IRL “algorithm” filter out? (August 7, 2022)
    Tackling class privilege, homelessness, and more.
  • Issue #73: Interrupting your lovely news cycle (July 17, 2022)
    Resurfacing past issues that are still relevant.
  • Issue #72: Warning: You may become a Paw Patrol killjoy (July 3, 2022)
    And a dreamer of whole new worlds.
  • Issue #71: Juneteenth, Father’s Day, *and* Pride! Whew. (June 19, 2022)
    Balancing vigilance with the joy of summer.
  • Issue #70: That wild energy, that rage (June 5, 2022)
    On kids, aggression, and “radicalization.”
  • Issue #69: Choosing care in the face of violence (May 15, 2022)
    Abortion, formula, libraries, and raising kids who get it.
  • Issue #68: Who cares for the caregivers? (May 1, 2022)
    + Behind the scenes on our 3rd birthday.
  • Issue #67: Why do parents decide our names? (April 17, 2022)
    More on names (there’s a lot to learn!).
  • Issue #66: Say my name, say my name (April 3, 2022)
    In names we trust.
  • Issue #65: 💡Speaking of bullies and bad guys… (March 20, 2022)
    + a Spotify update and a bday wish.
  • Issue #64: Good guys and bad guys (March 6, 2022)
    Talking war with kids.
  • Issue #63: We ❤️ dolls (well, some of them) (February 20, 2022)
    Help save a museum this Black History Month!
  • Issue #62: Diet culture, valentines, Encanto (February 6, 2022)
    💪 The muscle we’ve got to build. 💪
  • Issue #61: Have a plan for tomorrow? (January 16, 2022)
    Catch up on voting rights/MLK Day.
  • Issue #60: Find some focus in 2022 (January 2, 2022)
    Living in the present + songs for grownups + questions for a new year.
  • Issue #59: Cue the soothing links (December 19, 2021)
    Solstice, cycles, cider…and bell hooks on parenting.
  • Issue #58: Have you talked abortion with your kids? (December 5, 2021)
    Also: More gifts + work w/ us!
  • Issue #57: What to do about gifting (November 21, 2021)
    2021 Gift Guide: Playlist inspiration, Black- and Indigenous-owned gems, experience gifts.
  • Issue #56: Raising families on stolen land (November 8, 2021)
    Fumbling to be good neighbors.
  • Issue #55: “Can we go see the flooding again?” (October 17, 2021)
    Showing up for Generation Climate Disaster.
  • Issue #54: Back to school/back to protest (October 3, 2021)
    School lunch, Texas abortion ban, supporting Haitian immigrants.
  • Issue #53: Taking CARE (self 🌼 community 🌼 planet) (August 15, 2021)
    Before our hiatus…
  • Issue #52: Is CRT my problem? (August 1, 2021)
    Spoiler: Yep.
  • Issue #51: Olympic athletes are people too (July 18, 2021)
    Mental health, archaic institutions.
  • Issue #50: Unsettled 4th of July (July 4, 2021)
    School, reality, privilege, & Daniel Tiger.
  • Issue #49: The friends reunion(s) (June 20, 2021)
    Vaxxed and relaxed…and awkward! And anxious!
  • Issue #48: “How do you know who’s a boy or a girl?” (June 6, 2021)
    Pride 2021 + Kid Picks from a 5th grader.
  • Issue #47: Upping the joy factor (May 16, 2021)
    A list of 40+ things keeping us going.
  • Issue #46: Why hybrid teaching sucks + our 2nd bday! (May 2, 2021)
    Also: India relief, vaccines for teens, police-free communities.
  • Issue #45: Heavy hearts and minds (+ some joyful fuel) (April 18, 2021)
    Adam Toledo and the bigger picture.
  • Issue #44: Three quick things you can actually do (April 4, 2021)
    Fund healing. Stick up for trans kids. Dance it out.
  • Issue #43: Spring heartbreak, hope, resolve (March 21, 2021)
    Holidays, Haalands, hunger strikers | #StopAsianHate AND End white supremacy
  • Issue #42: End of the (still long) tunnel (March 7, 2021)
    A year of hanging in there.
  • Issue #41: Fuzzy on reparations? + Asian/Black solidarity (February 21, 2021)
    Plus: TX relief, Dr. Seuss alternatives, and more.
  • Issue #40: Is there a valentine that makes sense this year? (February 7, 2021)
    Love, grieve, repeat.
  • Issue #39: Watching the inauguration with your kids? (January 17, 2021)
    + more music.
  • Issue #38: We made you a (better) playlist! (January 3, 2021)
    And fired-up screen time ideas for 2021.
  • Issue #37: Wrap. It. Up. (December 20, 2020)
    2020 souvenirs + stats.
  • Issue #36: Gifts for essential people (yourself included) (December 6, 2020)
    Sustenance for 2021.
  • Issue #35: Kamala, beyond the ‘firsts’ (November 15, 2020)
    Now what?
  • Issue #34: This week of all weeks (gulp) (November 1, 2020)
    Surfing the “big feelings” wave.
  • Issue #33 (A short one!): Thinking generationally (October 18, 2020)
    Isolation, super-aunts, and America’s collapse.
  • Issue #32: Mental health, meet pandemic winter (October 4, 2020)
    + prepping for a coup.
  • Issue #31: Something concrete amidst the chaos (August 16, 2020)
    Plus, we’re taking a break for September.
  • Issue #30: Traditional families aren’t the norm (August 2, 2020)
    Strong family narratives.
  • Issue #29: The Baby-Sitters Club’s artsy agenda (July 19, 2020)
    Plus kid-sized masks, reader picks, and more.
  • Issue #28: Raising mixed kids + fighting election dread + more (July 5, 2020)
    Multiracial kids won’t save the world just by existing.
  • Issue #27: Fair play—at home, at school, and on the court (June 21, 2020)
    “Our most radical imaginings are possible.”
  • Issue #26: Raising anti-racist humans (June 7, 2020)
    A forever commitment.
  • Issue #25: We can’t gather, but we can hunt (for invasive species)! (May 17, 2020)
    “People create and build, not Amazon or a big box store.”
  • Issue #24: Older and wiser? (May 3, 2020)
    It’s our bday! Where’s our smash cake?
  • Issue #23: Stimulus checks, starfish, and Mr. Rogers (April 19, 2020)
    Don’t just look for the helpers.
  • Issue #22: We’re all here on Earth together (April 5, 2020)
    But let’s not go back to normal.
  • Issue #21: Dandelions remains open. (March 15, 2020)
    Staying connected while we distance ourselves
  • Issue #20: Endings and beginnings (March 1, 2020)
    A baby is born; a mom quits
  • Issue #19: “Do something for yourself” (February 16, 2020)
    It’s not that we haven’t tried.
  • Issue #18: Roses are red, that onesie is pink… (February 2, 2020)
    Would I gift it to a boy, do you think?
  • Issue #17: MLK Day *and* Lunar New Year (January 19, 2020)
    Beyond the obvious.
  • Issue #16: We made you a playlist (January 5, 2020)
    Racist nursery rhymes + Raffi’s song for Greta.
  • Issue #15: Last-minute gift ideas + manageable resolutions (December 15, 2019)
    Dads talk therapy, shopping sans Amazon, and more ideas for a fresh new decade.
  • Issue #14: Proactive joy (and radical hot chocolate!) (December 1, 2019)
    (Manageable) ways to act/react with care this holiday season.
  • Issue #13: Thanksgiving food for thought (November 17, 2019)
    Feeding ourselves, feeding our people.
  • Issue #12: NOT gaining an extra hour of sleep. But grateful for… (November 3, 2019)
    Going home, chosen family, and gratitude practice.
  • Issue #11: Besides bragging your “I Voted” sticker… (October 20, 2019)
    Kid-friendly ways to engage with election season, this year and next.
  • Issue #10: The Halloween costume cringe-fest (October 6, 2019)
    Pumpkin spice Dandelions brings you: fall holidays you may not be familiar with.
  • Issue #9: Our summer pilot is over! What now? (September 1, 2019)
    How we spent our summer vacation.
  • Issue #8: (Almost) back to school (August 18, 2019)
    Fall into…a household labor audit?
  • Issue #7: Bodies and selves (August 4, 2019)
    Consent, body love, (dis)ability, and more.
  • Issue #6: Summer reading (July 21, 2019)
    Representation (and beyond!) in kid lit.
  • Issue #5: Families together, families apart (July 7, 2019)
    Walls, borders, fences, and freedom.
  • Issue #4: Officially summer (June 23, 2019)
    Thoughtful vacays and staycays, whether you’re leaving town or not.
  • Issue #3: Earth to Dandelions (June 9, 2019)
    Like our waterways, our actions are all connected.
  • Issue #2: What’s your plan for Pride? (May 26, 2019)
    This is not going to be our one token issue with a mish-mash of LGBTQ topics.
  • Issue #1: Mama & caregiver labor, plus why we’re doing this (May 12, 2019)
    The care economy; divisions of labor; oh, and who the heck we are.

 

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