Order through Chaos is a notion that my kids are teaching me. Historically, I was a very organized person. Messes bothered me. My career has been about using technology to impose order on chaos.

Then I had two babies at once, and I’ve discovered that flow within chaos is an order of its own.

Parenting doesn’t really let you impose order on chaos. By loving and listening to our kids, I believe we find order through the chaos; an order that only chaos can give us. So, that’s one sense of the word “through.” Another sense is that of maintaining some structure, some order, while travelling through the chaos of parenting.

Chaos is the challenge, but it holds the tools for the solution. Since I love a good hack (using the tools at hand to create an original, elegant and functional solution to a challenge), I like to think that part of parenting is hacking the chaos. I’ll share some of my hacks and thoughts here.