A free weekly email for Twin Cities parents
Find your teen something worth doing — without the 11 open tabs.
Teen Twin Cities is a free newsletter for parents of 13–18-year-olds. Every Friday, get the best local camps, jobs, volunteer gigs, classes, internships and events, with the dates, details and deadlines you need.
Free forever. One email on Fridays. Unsubscribe in a tap.
New this year — be one of the first parents on the list.
What's in Friday's email
Six kinds of good ideas
Every issue pulls from all of these. If it's happening in the metro and it's worth your teen's time, it's in here.
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Camps
Day camps, sleepaway camps, and the weird specialty ones that fill up fast.
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Jobs
Places actually hiring teenagers — first jobs, summer shifts, seasonal gigs.
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Volunteering
Service hours that don't involve you making a single phone call.
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Classes & sports
Art, coding, music, climbing, leagues, clinics — one-offs and full seasons.
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Internships
Real résumé experience for high schoolers, not coffee runs.
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Events
Festivals, workshops, and one-day things worth rearranging a Saturday for.
A peek inside
Here's what a Friday looks like
Short, skimmable, and sorted by type. Five minutes with your coffee and you know what's worth signing up for.
- Summer canoe trips for ages 14–18 — a metro nonprofit, registration just opened
- A local amusement park is taking summer applications — $15+/hr, no experience needed
- Teen build day with a Twin Cities housing nonprofit — this Saturday, North Minneapolis
- Youth internship at a St. Paul museum — applications close Friday
- Free all-ages art festival downtown — this weekend
Example listings — a sense of the format, not this week's actual picks.
The honest pitch
Why parents actually stay subscribed
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It's free
No cost, no trial that ends, no upsell.
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It's once a week
Fridays — so you can sort the weekend and the week ahead in one sitting.
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It's only the metro
Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the suburbs. Nothing you can't get to.
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It's easy to quit
One tap to unsubscribe. No guilt trip, no five-page survey.
Good questions
Before you sign up
Is it really free?
Yes. No paid tier, no "premium" version. If that ever changes, you'll hear about it well before it does.
How often will you email me?
Once a week, Friday morning. That's it — no "special announcements" filling up your inbox in between.
What ages is this for?
Parents of teens roughly 13 to 18. Plenty of listings also suit a mature 12-year-old or a college-bound 18-year-old.
Which areas do you cover?
The Twin Cities metro — Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the surrounding suburbs.
Who's behind it?
I'm Michelle — a lifelong Minnesotan and a teen mom (not the MTV kind). I've always been a little envious of the parents who have it all together: the ones with a spreadsheet of camps and dates who always know what's happening and when. I am not that mom. Teen Twin Cities started when I went looking for tennis lessons for my daughter — ten websites, a few texts to friends, a couple of deadlines already missed, and an hour of my life gone. There had to be a better way to find what's out there and stay on top of it.
Can I suggest something for the newsletter?
Please do — just reply to any issue. Tips from local parents are usually the best ones.
One email. Every Friday. Your teen's calendar, handled.
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