Childcare and Daycare
21 episodes
#6031: Why Two Parents Alone Can't Carry a Toddler
Daycare didn't fix it. The research says the problem isn't hours — it's fragmented hours, portable mental load, and a village that isn't there.
#5880: Why Suburbs May Be a Bad Deal
Suburbs promise the best place to raise kids — but the research on childhood independence, municipal finance, and carbon says otherwise.
#5808: Ninety Percent of Cries Answered in 25 Seconds
Forager infants get nine hours of attentive care a day from up to 15 people. What would daycare look like if we copied that?
#5216: When Modular Storage Meets Tall, Narrow Objects
Euroboxes and Dolavs have a gap: nothing between 45cm and pallet-sized fits a light stand, tripod, or broom. Here's what actually works.
#5100: Why Daycare Drop-Off Hits So Hard: A WEIRD Problem
Is the daycare drop-off misery universal or a product of Western culture? We explore attachment, alloparenting, and what non-WEIRD societies do dif...
#5077: Your Life as a Medical Encyclopedia: Decision Trees for Real Life
Building a searchable personal wiki with interactive flowcharts for parenting, household tasks, and the 2am fever moment.
#4873: Screaming Toddler on a Beach: Parenting in Public Without a Net
What happens when you're stranded on a layover with a melting-down toddler and no family to help?
#3916: Parental Leave: A Patch for a Broken System
Is parental leave a genuine support or just a temporary exemption from a system built against human biology?
#3893: The Teddy Bear That Shut Down a Daycare
How Israel's 1979 wiretapping law made a camera-stuffed teddy bear legal — and what happens next.
#3363: Why the Teletubbies Sun-Baby Makes Infants Cry
The Teletubbies was engineered for pre-verbal brains. Here's why adult discomfort is a feature, not a bug.
#3355: Childproofing Eurobox Racks for Home Businesses
How to stop a toddler from pulling heavy Euroboxes off open shelving — without destroying your workflow.
#2753: ADHD-Friendly Systems for Overwhelmed Parents
Paper checklists, plain text files, and context-specific triggers—building a user manual for life when executive function is maxed out.
#2595: Baby-Proofing a Small Rental: Survival Strategies
Practical strategies for surviving the mobile baby phase in a small Jerusalem apartment without losing your security deposit.
#1692: The 60sqm Handoff: Parenting Without Childcare
How to survive a high-stakes work-from-home setup when your office is also the nursery.
#1691: The 40% Cortisol Spike of Solo Parenting
No family nearby? That 3 AM exhaustion isn't just fatigue—it's a measurable physiological state called Isolated Parent Syndrome.
#1275: The Nuclear Family Failure: Why Parenting Feels Impossible
Parenting isn’t hard because you’re failing; it’s hard because it was never meant to be done alone. Discover the science of alloparenting.
#1263: The Myth of the Bored Baby: Sensory Secrets for WFH Parents
Stop the parental guilt. Discover why "boredom" is actually a high-intensity period of brain development for your eight-month-old.
#1205: System Update: Navigating the 9-Month Growth Spike
Explore the massive "firmware update" that happens at nine months as infants move from passive observers to active environmental explorers.
#442: Running Your Home Like a Startup: The Weekly Sync
Learn how to apply startup-style syncs and retrospectives to your household to reduce anxiety and stop things from slipping through the cracks.
#437: When Policy, Not Psychology, Decides Daycare
Is your child ready for daycare? Herman and Corn explore attachment theory, socialization myths, and how to identify high-quality care.
#436: The Myth of Instinctual Parenting
You need a license to drive, but not to bring home a baby. Herman and Corn discuss the critical need for subsidized parenting education.