About The '90s Parent

The '90s Parent is a weekly email series that unpacks one modern parenting topic at a time and holds it next to the way we grew up—honest, funny, a little nostalgic, and never pretending there's one right answer. We're not here to romanticize the past as if we'd replay every detail exactly as it was; we're here because the questions are real, and the craving for a foregone time is complicated.

Each edition is one full issue you can finish—a readable break from the infinite scroll, the push notification guilt trip, and the performative “perfect parent” feed. Humor, honesty, and a dial-up state of mind in a broadband world, delivered to your inbox.

What we publish

We write about what it feels like to parent in 2026 while part of you aches for the nostalgia of a bygone era—not because you literally want everything back as it was, but because you're trying to sort signal from noise. No manifestos. Just exploring how other people are grappling with the same tensions you are.

Topics might include gentle parenting; picky eaters; over-the-top birthday parties; screen time; expensive babysitters—and the question underneath: have things really gotten better since we were kids? Worse? Maybe they're just… different?

We're not here to romanticize riding in the trunk of a station wagon (okay, maybe a little); we're here to ask what's worth borrowing from yesterday and what's better left behind.

How it works

Subscribe once, and a new issue arrives in your inbox each week—one focused read you can actually finish. Browsing past articles in the archive is free anytime. Snooze and unsubscribe stay a click away in your mail when you need them.

Who it's for

Toddlers, tweens, teens, or a household that feels like a conference call between generations—if you catch yourself comparing how you're raising kids to how you were raised, and you don't always know which side of that comparison you believe, you're in the right place.

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