Scaling Career and Family: Systems Thinking, Public School, Home Enrichment – Casey Handmer's blog
Originally posted on November 29, 2025 by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran When asked on The Cheeky Pint podcast how we educate our children, my husband Casey Handmer replied “benign neglect.” It’s…
Originally posted on November 29, 2025 by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran When asked on The Cheeky Pint podcast how we educate our children , my husband Casey Handmer replied “benign neglect.” It’s a cheeky answer that captures something real: we’re neither tiger nor helicopter parents. But after seven years and three kids (with a fourth on the way), we’ve developed a more deliberate approach. Here’s what we’ve learned. The Family as a System If I’ve taken anything away from seven years of parenting, it’s this: the family is a system . Treating it as such, rather than asking “is X better than Y?”,
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