20-Minute ParentThe Twenty-Minute Parent

Twenty minutes is a long time. Here's how to spend it together.

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Twenty minutes is a long time. Here's how to spend it together.

At-home play, sold like a shop

You have 20 minutes.Let's make them count.

Quick at-home reviews and printable playbooks for busy parents. Made by a real parent, with a little help from AI.

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Play. Connect. Discover.

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Play

Launch the Spider · The kid's part is a game, a mission, or an invitation. Never homework.

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Connect

Be the pumpkin spa customer · One small shared moment: a job, a story, a turn.

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Discover

Where did the dirt go? · One question that helps your kid notice, then you listen.

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Halloween Playbook

Ages 2–7 · Three short adventures, one bag of candy leftover for you.

Three at-home adventures, a shopping list, and a safety page.

View the Playbook →$11.99 PDF, $26.99 printed, and $35.99 printed plus custom coloring pages

From the pile

Reviews for 20 min

AI-generated image: in a sunny kitchen, a mom in her thirties with a messy bun and oversized safety goggles sits back from the table with both open hands raised like she's bracing for an explosion, while a toddler in kid-size goggles calmly squeezes a dropper over a muffin tin where one cup bubbles with purple foam, and the foam's shadow on the wall behind them is a towering erupting volcano. — AI-made image. Real chaos may vary.

Fizz First, Questions Later

Ages 18 months–8 years · Medium mess

AI-made image. Real chaos may vary.

All the Bath-Time Fun, None of the Bath

Ages 18 months–8 years · Medium mess

AI-generated image: a dad kneels on a living-room rug holding a teddy bear and knocks on the door of a big cardboard box house covered in crayon scribbles and blue tape, with a taped-on doorbell and a drawn number 7. A laughing toddler leans out of the open cardboard door. One impossible thing: a real brass porch light, with no wire, glows above the cardboard door. On the couch behind them, a toy fire truck sits unopened in its packaging. — AI-made image. Real chaos may vary.

The Box Is Better Than What Came In It

Ages 18 months–8 years · Low mess

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AI-generated portrait of Casey Hopwood (a pen name): a man in a blue sweater with a red crayon in the pocket, in a glass-walled office. Behind him a toddler in a red cape runs past, a stuffed elephant flies through the air, and a whiteboard reads "Q4 GOALS: SNACKS." Not a photograph of a real person. — AI-made image. Real chaos may vary.
Casey Hopwood. Pen name. AI portrait. The parent behind it is real.

Meet Casey

A pen name, on purpose

Casey Hopwood is a pen name and an AI portrait. The tired parent behind it is real, has two young kids on the SF Peninsula, and is usually holding a crayon.

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