A system built for the reality of modern parenting.
ABOUTHi! I am Alex. I created Space for Children because I think modern parents are being asked to manage an absolutely ridiculous amount of stuff - and an even greater amount of information about what their children need.
Parenting has always been hard, but the experience of modern parenting has changed dramatically since the creation of the internet. Many families are managing more toys, more products, more information, more developmental advice, and more decisions about what their children need - all while balancing work, caregiving, and the daily operation of a home.
The U.S. Surgeon General’s 2024 Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents now describes this as significant mental labor: anticipating children’s changing needs, coordinating complex schedules, and making countless decisions everyday. In addition to their inner world, parents are navigating physical changes too. The UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families in their research on contemporary homes found that each new child was associated with a 30% increase in household possessions during the preschool years alone (2012).
Space for Children exists to help reduce that environmental overload. This hands-on solution simplifies your space, creates clear homes for the things your family uses, and builds systems that children can understand and participate in.
SO HOW DID I END UP DOING THIS?Hi, I’m Miss Alex!
My background is a little unusual, which is probably why I ended up creating a job that didn’t quite exist yet.
I have a Master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, which means I spent years learning to look at the relationship between people, environments, behavior and the way their experiences are designed. I’ve worked in business consulting, professional home organizing and eventually found my way into a preschool classroom.
That last one gave me a whole new way to look at our big world and how little ones manage to learn and navigate it.
As a toddler teacher, I watched two- and three-year-olds “go to work” using old keyboards and phones. I watched them build houses, cook elaborate meals, negotiate who got to be the doctor and who would build the exam room, care for baby dolls, practice saying “no”, and reenact things that had happened in their own lives.
Play was never just play, it was literally how they made sense of being a person.
One of my favorite classroom projects was our feelings corner. We created a cozy space where children could identify their emotions, slow down, and move through them with an adult. Parents asked me for my ‘emotion posters’ and even printed them out to create a similar space in their own homes. That is when I realized the power of how our spaces can support us and teach us, simply through how intentionally they are set up.
So when you combine the psychology of business systems that inform us how to design experiences that are meaningful, with classrooms, early childhood and home organizing you get: Space for Children - because your home is their first teacher overlaps beautifully with the idea that the first organization they will ever enter is simply your practice society. Their brain develops with the imprint of their experience at home guiding their way through later life.
The little child in me would be so excited to tell you that a day in my life consists of sitting on someone’s playroom floor, moving baskets, toys, and tiny furniture around, making photo labels and asking children extremely serious questions about their favorite toys.
I love creating spaces that feel understandable to children, supportive to adults, and very much like the family who actually lives there.
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