2026-06-06
"The school's calling again." Chest tightens, every time.
When the school keeps calling, six months in your memory is mush — who was that kid, what happened, did I apologize to that parent? TroubleNote is a parent-only log for incidents, organized by friend, by date, by place. No advice. Just lays it out. And when the data shows your kid is actually hitting less than last year, you breathe a little.
2026-07-02
I was only looking at the planes that made it backNew
Survivorship bias in parenting: Instagram wins, the mom who has it figured out, my kid's 'I'm fine' — all survivor data. And regression to the mean makes yelling look like it works. So I put my kid's days on a moving-average chart. That app is GrowthTrend.
2026-06-22
"Pick whatever you want" was the cruelest thing I'd been sayingNew
2026-05-18
I was grabbing his failures before he could feel them
7:14 AM. Backpack on, homework still on the counter. Almost said 'grab it' — caught myself. Productive failure (Kapur 2008) and the 3-second pause we're trying at home.