The Oona blog
Warm, practical notes on family life, from the people building Oona. The mental load, calmer mornings, pocket money, dinner, and keeping your kids' world small and safe. No hard sell.
Keeping your kids' world small and safe online
For a lot of family life, being the product doesn't sit right. Here's how we think about privacy, and a few plain questions worth asking of any app.
A simpler answer to "what's for dinner?"
Meal planning gets a bad rap. It doesn't need a spreadsheet or a lost Sunday. A loose plan beats no plan, and it takes about ten minutes.
Pocket money that teaches, without the nagging
Pay for chores or not? How much? Most of us are making it up as we go. A few traps to avoid, and what tends to work.
Mornings that don't start with shouting
You can't make mornings with kids effortless. But you can take a few daily decisions off your plate so the whole thing runs with less friction.
The invisible to-do list: sharing the mental load at home
The hardest part of running a family isn't doing the jobs, it's remembering them all. Here's what actually helps share that weight.