ND Parent With School Chaos and Shared Mental Load
You’ve got a child in school and the usual mess:
- School app / portal
- Emails about trips, uniforms, events
- Payment links
- Calendar of random one-off days
- A running checklist of “things to remember for Thursday”
Without TabStax
Stuff slips. One parent ends up carrying all the mental load. You scramble the morning of the school play.
With TabStax
You create “Rory – School Admin (This Term)” Stax:
- School portal
- Payment pages
- Shared Google Doc: “School To-Dos”
- Calendar in the right view
Start Page Next Actions:
- “Pay for class trip – deadline Fri”
- “Buy new tracksuit bottoms”
- “Note parent-teacher time slot”
You share this Stax with your co-parent.
Now:
- Either of you can open the Stax and see everything that needs attention.
- Whoever acts just ticks off the next action and updates the doc.
- On big days (school play, sports day), you open the Stax and instantly see the logistics instead of sweeping through old emails.
Outcome: The mental model of “school admin” becomes a shared workspace, not one person’s overloaded memory.