2026
March 2026 Platform Update NEW
The IOW stream launches, bringing a fourth way to engage with the platform's ideas. New HWTK content including the nursery drop-off suite. Music Has Fallen published in Young Thinking. The platform enters its distribution phase, and r/YoungFamilyLife opens as a discussion community.
- IOW stream launches — three new pieces
- Nursery drop-off three-piece HWTK suite
- Music Has Fallen — Young Thinking (~6,200 words)
- Natural Healing Check-in Card
- r/YoungFamilyLife community launched
- Platform reaches ~76 pieces and ~270,000 words
February 2026 Platform Update
A significant month: the brain trilogy completed, the Family Climate framework launched with two new scales, major new essays on narcissism, harmful relationships, and natural healing, and the HWTK stream expanding with four new pieces including the first paired HWTK and Check-in Card publications.
- Brain trilogy complete — From Zebras to Ravens (19,000 words)
- Family Climate essay — Warmth and Governance scales
- Narcissist, Misogynist, Misandrist (16,100 words)
- Learning to Survive — brain development and threat response
- 4 new HWTK pieces + 2 paired Check-in Cards
- Platform reaches 43 pieces and 200,000+ words
January 2026 Platform Update
The HWTK content stream launches publicly with six accessible essays. Five major new essays span safeguarding, communication, biology, and community analysis. The brain trilogy begins. Platform reaches 38 academic essays and 150,000+ words.
- HWTK stream launches — six accessible essays live
- The Epistemology of Safeguarding (5,482 words)
- The Zealots Among Us (6,490 words)
- The Three-Pound Supercomputer — trilogy part 1
- Living in a Fabricated World — trilogy part 2
- Small Town, Big Hearts — Bungay road safety
2025
December 2025 Platform Update
"The Journey" — a 6,200-word reflection documenting YoungFamilyLife's first year. From June incorporation through November, covering the pivot from planned courses to prolific content creation, transparent discussion of AI collaboration, and the philosophical foundations predating the platform by seventeen years. Behind the scenes: HWTK content designed and prepared for January launch.
- The Journey: My YFL Start-up Year (6,200 words)
- When Abstraction is Out of Reach (4,820 words)
- HWTK stream designed and prepared
- 29 essays and 140,000+ words at year-end
October 2025 Platform Update
A significant strategic shift: the planned November workshop and January course postponed to allow intensive content development and organic platform growth. Honest recognition that credibility through quality content needed to precede course launches. The Feedback Paradox published, platform reaches 24+ essays.
- Strategic pivot — content before courses
- The Feedback Paradox published
- Course timeline revised
- Platform at 24+ essays
September 2025 Platform Update
The six-part "Changing People" series completes — 25,334 words exploring why professional attempts to change people fail, threaded through the fictional character of Angie Thokden from evolutionary biology through to compassionate practice. Monthly newsletter launched. Check-in Cards and Young Thinking sections established.
- Changing People series complete — 25,334 words
- Monthly newsletter launched
- Check-in Awareness Cards established
- Young Thinking section created
About Platform Updates
Monthly platform updates provide a comprehensive overview of new content, completed essay series, course developments, and significant platform improvements. Each update documents the evidence-based resources added to support families, professionals, and students — and the strategic thinking behind the platform's ongoing development.