why tissande exists
We are parents. We are caregivers. We have been there — the last-minute meetings, the dentist appointments squeezed between calls, the long summer holidays to navigate, the sick days that collide with deadlines, and the constant question: how do we give our children the best of us without losing ourselves?
Tissande began as one answer to that question — and grew into a place where no parent has to hold it alone.
the realities
modern parenthood asks for more
than any one person can give.
these aren't personal failings. they're the shared, structural weight of raising a family today.
the meeting that won't move
a call gets rescheduled with a click. the school pickup, the parent-teacher conference, the sports match — they don't move so easily.
the long summer stretch
weeks of holidays, and rarely enough childcare to fill them. someone has to figure it out, every single year.
the appointments in between
the dentist, the paediatrician, the school forms — squeezed between calls, carried in the back of your mind all day.
the invisible load
the planning no one sees: what's for dinner, who needs new shoes, whose birthday is next week. it's real work, and it's rarely counted as work.
the pressure to be both
fully present at home, fully committed at work — as if either was ever meant to be done alone.
the name
we are named for
the weaving.
tissande comes from the idea of weaving — tisser, to weave. every parent we've met is holding several threads at once: a career, a family, a sense of who they were before any of this began.
tissande is where those threads come together. a living archive of parenting wisdom, built from real stories, reflections and reminders — not expert advice handed down, but experience passed sideways, parent to parent.
the goal
five hundred threads.
one collective record.
each thread — a story, a lesson, a moment of honesty — becomes part of something bigger than any one parent's experience. five hundred is our first goal: enough voices to prove that no one is imagining this alone, and enough evidence to start a different conversation about how society supports working parents.
the vision
closing the gap between
what work expects and what family needs.
tissande's ambition is to become a public conversation — a tribune for more humane approaches to work and family life, grounded in real experience rather than theory.
add your thread
your story is part of
the record.
whatever you've lived — the hard days, the small wins, the thing you wish someone had told you — it belongs in the Tissande. share it, and help build the five hundred.