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The things worth knowing before you subscribe

Written for the parent doing the buying, not the child doing the building. No listicles padded out to twenty entries.

Buying

Seven subscriptions, scored on the thing that actually decides it: whether your child is still using it in month six.

What these kits can and cannot replace in a homeschool science curriculum.

Subscriptions are not automatically better value. Here is when they are, and when a single good kit wins.

What $25, $30 and $40 a month actually buy, and the cost-per-build maths that headline prices hide.

It is almost never the science. Four structural reasons kits die, and what to check before you buy.

Subscription boxes have a storage problem nobody mentions at checkout. Here is the maths, and the way around it.

An honest look at which kits genuinely get kids off a tablet, and where the 'screen-free' label is doing some work.

Buying a gift is a different problem from buying a subscription. What to give, and what to avoid.

Five questions about your child and your house. Two minutes, no email, no account.

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