, starting daycare comes with an extra thing to add to your already packed mental load… the surprising amount of stuff they seem to need. Suddenly your tiny human needs rain gear, indoor shoes, a lunch system, approximately 47 labels and enough spare clothes to survive a minor flood (or at least, multiple ‘accidents’).

The good news? We've rounded up our favourite daycare essentials, to give you one less thing to worry about.

And understandably, it's resonating hard right now. But here's the thing: the aesthetic isn't really the point. The real gift buried in that trend is permission - permission to say a big F-U to the pressure of doing All The Things this summer. The bucket list. The road trip. The five festivals. The perfectly documented "best summer ever." Because if we try to do all that, we’ll end up burnt out and needing a holiday by the time summer is done. So how can we take what we need from this, and leave what we don’t?