Family

An app that gives the answer and an app that teaches the method look identical from the sofa.

Most household arguments about logistics are about information, not effort. One of you knew and the other did not.

The most valuable hour in genealogy is the one spent recording an eighty year old talking, and it costs nothing.

A contraction timer is a stopwatch with good manners. It is not monitoring anything.

The best video app is the one already installed on the other phone, and it is rarely the one you would choose.

The hardest part of managing someone else's medicines is not remembering the dose. It is knowing whether someone else already gave it.

A determined teenager can get around most parental controls in an afternoon. The limits that last are the ones they agreed to.

The photographs are only half the archive. The other half is who is in them, and that lives in somebody's memory.

The dog does not need an app. The person trying to remember the worming date does.

The best baby tracker is the one both parents can use half asleep with one hand.

The problem is rarely the app you chose. It is the advertisement inside it that leads somewhere else.