The Family Almanac · The Guides
A grounded guide to every stage of raising a person
Each guide reconciles a shelf of parenting books into one honest map of a stage — the pediatric science and the hard-won practitioner truths, held together, with the disagreements surfaced rather than smoothed over. A bicycle gets you there faster, but you still pedal.
Pregnancy
in progressFrom a positive test to a birth plan — what each week is really about, which screenings matter and when, and how to read the scary-sounding statistics without losing your mind.
The Newborn Months
in progressSleep, feeding, and temperament in the fourth trimester — wake windows, weaning readiness, and reading the baby you actually got, grounded in the canon rather than the loudest voice online.
The Toddler Years
in progressTantrums, limits, and language — connection before correction, what to actually say in the hard moment, and why 'good job' is the wrong praise, from the emotion-coaching literature.
The Preschool Years
in progressAges three to five — the early-learning window: prepared environments and Montessori pedagogy, building attention and independence, and the social-emotional foundations that make everything after school possible.
The School Years
in progressSix to twelve — how children actually learn, what drives behavior when the stakes rise, and the cognitive-development evidence behind reading, focus, and the skills that predict school success.
The Teen Years
in progressThe developing person through adolescence — the science of the changing brain, identity and autonomy, and how the whole arc of childhood resolves into a young adult. The canon here is still growing.
The Science of Raising a Person
in progressThe cross-cutting evidence — what the research does and doesn't support, where popular advice runs ahead of the data, and how to weigh a study before you rearrange your life around it.
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