Two people have spent years on why kids are struggling.
Jonathan Haidt points at the phone. Screens showed up, and something broke.
Peter Gray points at us. We stopped letting kids out of our sight decades before the phone existed. No unsupervised afternoons. No walking anywhere alone. No time that belonged to them.
They’re both right. That’s the problem with it.
You can’t fix all of that on a Tuesday night.
So we picked the one part a parent can actually do. One real thing, every Wednesday.
We’re not child psychologists.
We’re two dads with six kids between us.
All of them can cook a meal, start a fire, and hold a conversation with an adult.
None of that happened because we read a parenting book.
It happened because we gave them real things to do and got out of the way.
We built strongerKids because the stuff that works is annoyingly simple.
And nobody is packaging it for the parent who is tired, guilty, and Googling at 11pm.
The activities work right now. Today. This weekend.
Two people have spent years on why kids are struggling.
Jonathan Haidt points at the phone. Screens showed up, and something broke. Peter Gray points at us. We stopped letting kids out of our sight decades before the phone existed. No unsupervised afternoons. No walking anywhere alone. No time that belonged to them.
They’re both right. That’s the problem with it.
You can’t fix all of that on a Tuesday night.
So we picked the one part a parent can actually do.
One real thing, every Wednesday.
We’re not child psychologists.
We’re two dads with six kids between us.
All of them can cook a meal, start a fire, and hold a conversation with an adult.None of that happened because we read a parenting book.
It happened because we gave them real things to do and got out of the way.
We built strongerKids because the stuff that works is annoyingly simple.
And nobody is packaging it for the parent who is tired, guilty, and Googling at 11pm.
The activities work right now. Today.
This weekend.
Two people have spent years on why kids are struggling.
Jonathan Haidt points at the phone. Screens showed up, and something broke. Peter Gray points at us. We stopped letting kids out of our sight decades before the phone existed. No unsupervised afternoons. No walking anywhere alone. No time that belonged to them.
They’re both right. That’s the problem with it.
You can’t fix all of that on a Tuesday night.
So we picked the one part a parent can actually do.
One real thing, every Wednesday.
We’re not child psychologists.
We’re two dads with six kids between us.
All of them can cook a meal, start a fire, and hold a conversation with an adult.None of that happened because we read a parenting book.
It happened because we gave them real things to do and got out of the way.
We built strongerKids because the stuff that works is annoyingly simple.
And nobody is packaging it for the parent who is tired, guilty, and Googling at 11pm.
The activities work right now. Today. This weekend.
the strongerKIDS cairn
Stones, balanced, stacked by hand.
What it stands for:
Direction. Someone went this way. Your kid can too.
Skill. Balance is earned, not given.
Risk. It could fall. You build anyway.
Work. Made by hand. Hands still matter.
Creativity. No two stacks. No two kids.
Permanence through impermanence. One stone at a time. One week at a time.
Community. We add to what helps the next family go further.
the strongerKIDS cairn
Stones, balanced, stacked by hand.
What it stands for:
Direction. Someone went this way. Your kid can too.
Skill. Balance is earned, not given.
Risk. It could fall. You build anyway.
Work. Made by hand. Hands still matter.
Creativity. No two stacks. No two kids.
Permanence through impermanence.
One stone at a time. One week at a time.Community. We add to what helps the next family go further.
the strongerKIDS cairn
Stones, balanced, stacked by hand.
What it stands for:
Direction. Someone went this way. Your kid can too.
Skill. Balance is earned, not given.
Risk. It could fall. You build anyway.
Work. Made by hand. Hands still matter.
Creativity. No two stacks. No two kids.
Permanence through impermanence.
One stone at a time. One week at a time.Community. We add to what helps the next family go further.