Walking a few steps ahead...
The Team
The people behind The Wagon Method are editors, practitioners, readers, and builders. Bios are being added one at a time as each person joins the trail.
Stretch 2 · Settling InThe team at The Wagon Method is small on purpose, and practitioner led by design.
We believe the people writing about pulling a hurting child's wagon should be people who have pulled a hurting child's wagon. Every page on this site is either written or reviewed by someone who has done this work in a home, a classroom, a therapy office, or a case file. We name our contributors here as they are ready to be named.
If you are reading this and wondering whether the people behind the site have any idea what a Tuesday afternoon meltdown actually looks like, the short answer is yes. The longer answer is that we test every piece of content against a simple question. Would this help the person reading it at 10pm, alone, with tomorrow still to come? If the answer is no, the content does not ship.
Who you will find here
A team photo will live here as soon as we have one that feels right. For now, imagine a small circle of people around a lantern, with notebooks open and coffee cooling.
Managing editor
The editor holds the voice of the site, reviews every page before it goes live, and keeps the framework consistent across hundreds of pieces of content. Think of the editor as the person who tends the campfire so everyone else can gather around it.
Full bio being added soon.
Contributing practitioners
Our trail guides are foster parents, therapists, caseworkers, teachers, and kinship caregivers who have been walking this trail longer than most. They help us pressure test every piece of content against the reality of a hard Tuesday afternoon.
Individual guide bios being added as each joins the team.
Advisory contributors
A small group of people with deeper academic and clinical backgrounds help us make sure the language we use is grounded in the research we point to. They do not write the pages. They read the pages and ask us harder questions.
Names shared as each contributor agrees to be listed.
Design and engineering
A small team shapes how the site looks, how it reads, how it feels to navigate at 10pm when you are tired. We care as much about the space between the words as the words themselves.
Team credits being added over time.