Notes on running a household without carrying all of it in your head. https://tended.studio/ 2026-09-20T09:00:00Z The Tended teamhello@tended.app © 2026 Tended https://tended.studio/articles/shared-grocery-list 2026-09-20T09:00:00Z 2026-09-20T09:00:00Z

Paper, a notes app, a chat thread, a dedicated list — compared honestly on the one thing that matters: does it still match what's actually needed by the time someone's standing in the aisle.

https://tended.studio/articles/dinner-rotation 2026-09-20T09:00:00Z 2026-09-20T09:00:00Z

A printable ten-dinner rotation and the one rule that makes it work — written down once, reused every week, so 'what's for dinner' stops being asked out loud at six.

https://tended.studio/articles/back-to-school-forms 2026-09-15T09:00:00Z 2026-09-15T09:00:00Z

Every form the school year throws at you, in one place — emergency contacts, allergy notes, permission slips, the pickup list — instead of a stack that migrates around the kitchen for a month.

https://tended.studio/articles/morning-card 2026-09-14T09:00:00Z 2026-09-14T09:00:00Z

A printable morning routine card that replaces the parent's voice with something a kid checks themselves — the literal words to say once, and the free, five-minute way to set it up.

https://tended.studio/articles/after-school-scheduling 2026-09-14T09:00:00Z 2026-09-14T09:00:00Z

The three ways after-school scheduling actually breaks down for two kids and one car — and the free, five-minute fix for each, without a spreadsheet or a tracking app.

https://tended.studio/articles/well-child-visits 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z

The full well-child visit schedule by age, and the one-line habit that keeps it from quietly slipping — no app, no tracker, just a question asked at the right moment.

https://tended.studio/articles/sunday-handoff 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z

A short, spoken version of the weekly plan — five things said out loud on Sunday so the coming week starts with both parents holding the same picture, not just the same calendar.

https://tended.studio/articles/school-paperwork-system 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z

Why the neat September system for school forms quits by October, and the three fixes — each one free, each one under five minutes — that keep it running for the rest of the year.

https://tended.studio/articles/merge-google-calendars 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z

A step-by-step way to share a family calendar in Google without folding your whole account into it — and the honest limit of where Google's own tools stop helping.

https://tended.studio/articles/appointment-checklist 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z

The exact list to bring when you're catching up on an appointment you missed, plus the one text to send the other parent the night before so you both walk in knowing the same things.

https://tended.studio/articles/shared-family-calendar 2026-09-01T09:00:00Z 2026-09-01T09:00:00Z

What actually works when two parents keep different systems — how to share a family calendar, what a shared calendar cannot carry, and where the handoff really breaks.

https://tended.studio/articles/child-medical-records 2026-08-30T09:00:00Z 2026-08-30T09:00:00Z

Vaccination dates, allergy notes, the pediatrician's name — what actually needs keeping for a child, where it should live, and how long before it's safe to let go.

https://tended.studio/articles/why-we-built-tended 2026-08-24T09:00:00Z 2026-08-24T09:00:00Z

Most of the work of raising a family lives in two heads, a paper folder and a chat thread that scrolls away. Tended is our attempt to give it one calm, shared home that both parents can edit.

https://tended.studio/articles/sunday-reset-checklist 2026-08-24T09:00:00Z 2026-08-24T09:00:00Z

A Sunday reset checklist with five specific things, ten minutes, done Sunday night — not a full reset of the house, just enough that Monday doesn't start behind. Free printable.