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ALMANAC
Almanac is like a friend who knows your family and helps you raise your kids on purpose.
CHAT
Tell Almanac what happened. It knows your family, so what it says fits yours.
Everything you share shapes the next answer, for each of your children.
REMEMBERED · 12 MARCH
“She holds it together at school and lets go at home.”
That “fine” can feel like a closed door. But you told me she holds it together all day at school. By pickup she may simply have nothing left for questions. The quiet is often less about shutting you out, and more about her filling back up.
REMEMBERED · 3 JUNE
“Ada is her best friend. They sit together at lunch.”
Not stop, maybe just make the question smaller. “How was your day?” is a big one to answer. What if you asked about Ada instead, something like “What did you and Ada talk about at lunch?” or “Did anything make you laugh today?” It can also help to go first: share one small thing from your own day, then leave a little pause.
That makes a lot of sense. Side by side, no eye contact, nowhere to be. Lots of children talk most when they don’t feel looked at. What if you let the first half of the drive home be quiet? A snack, some music, no questions. Then, once she’s had a moment to land, ask your one small question. And when she does open up, try listening all the way to the end before fixing anything. That’s usually what brings her back the next time.
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INTERVIEWS
About your child, and about you. A few each week, chosen for their age.
Something they’ve had since they were tiny? Something you worry the world will knock out of them?
Think about how you were raised. Most people have one thing, and it doesn’t have to be dramatic.
As much or as little as you want to put down.
Something they could say and mean, like “I can handle hard things”.
ABOUT
Almanac rewrites it after every interview. There’s a page about you too, so it knows how to talk to you.
IN SHORT
Nora collects passions — dinosaurs this month, drawing the last — and can talk about them for an hour. Feelings run big and honest, and settle quickly once they’re named.
Kind by instinct, especially with younger children. New ground is where Nora slows down: a change of plan still needs a moment to land.
ABOUT YOU · FROM YOUR INTERVIEW
You grew up reading your dad’s face to know what kind of evening it would be, and you never told him when something was wrong. You want the opposite for Nora: that she brings you the bad news, and that she knows she’s loved whatever happens. You expect to slip sometimes. When you do, you plan to go back and say sorry, which nobody did for you.
INSIGHTS
Every answer moves the picture a little further, across ten parts of growing up, from character to health.
HABITS
Small things you can do many times a day, for what matters most.
JOURNAL
Say a few words, or add a photo. Almanac writes up your week, so the story is still there when they’re grown.
21 – 27 SEPTEMBER
It rained most of the week. Then Tuesday.
14 – 20 SEPTEMBER
Nora packed her own bag, and then packed it again.
7 – 13 SEPTEMBER
It was “mine”, and he used it all week.
31 AUGUST – 6 SEPTEMBER
New shoes, and the same friend waiting at the gate.
THE WEEK OF 21 SEPTEMBER
It rained most of the week. Then Tuesday.
The hospital called about Grandad, and for an hour nobody said much. Nora noticed. Without a word, a drawing appeared on the kitchen table: Grandad in his garden, the tomatoes far too big.
Robin wanted to make one too. His is mostly purple, and he says it’s also Grandad.
He came home on Friday. The drawing is on his fridge now.
That night Tom wrote one line in the notes:
I think we’re raising someone kind.
TROVE
Add a photo and it becomes a card in their Trove. Star the ones you’ll want to show them one day.
She went back to Leo on her own and said sorry. Nobody asked her to.
Two evenings, a lot of sighing, and she wouldn’t let me help. Then the last piece.
Two weeks of pushing along with his feet. Today he lifted them and glided all the way to the bridge.
TODAY
Winging it, like most parents. Reacting to whatever the day brings. The big questions wait, and good intentions slip by Friday.
WITH ALMANAC
Clear about what matters for your child, and why. A nudge when it counts, a few habits that stick, and their progress there to see.
THE FILM
From the first week to the last: what it’s like to have Almanac beside you.
Everything in Almanac is for you. It’s where your thinking about your kids lives.
The questions change as they grow, and so do the habits worth keeping.
Two or three check-ins a week is plenty. It fits the week you already have.
What you tell Almanac is kept in your account, for your family. Delete it whenever you want.
Grow up alongside them.
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