ALMANAC

Kind. Capable.
Good company at eighteen.

Almanac is like a friend who knows your family and helps you raise your kids on purpose.

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A childhood is about 936 weeks.

Almanac is how you make them count.

CHAT

Know what to do next.

Tell Almanac what happened. It knows your family, so what it says fits yours.

It remembers what you’ve told it.

Everything you share shapes the next answer, for each of your children.

Homework ended in tears again. Nora said, “I’m just stupid.”

REMEMBERED · 12 MARCH

“She holds it together at school and lets go at home.”

That’s hard to hear from her. You told me she holds it together at school and lets go at home, so homework at six gets the tiredest Nora of the day. “I’m stupid” usually means “I’m stuck, and I hate the feeling.”

So what do I say when she says it? Arguing never works.

REMEMBERED · 3 JUNE

“She calls herself the one who notices things.”

Don’t argue with the word. She’ll only defend it. Name the stuck instead: “This bit is hard right now.” Then make the next step tiny: “Show me just the first line.” She calls herself the one who notices things, so notice with her: “You spotted where it went wrong. That’s the hard part.”

And Robin’s climbing all over her by then.

Then move the homework, not Nora. Ten minutes straight after school, before she’s spent, while Robin has his snack.

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INTERVIEWS

The questions worth asking.

About your child, and about you. A few each week, chosen for their age. Tap an answer, or say it in your own words.

Almanac reads every answer.

It writes back what it heard and what might help. And the next questions fit your child a little better.

CHARACTER

Something they’ve had since they were tiny? Something you worry the world will knock out of them?

What about them do you hope never changes?

How openly they love people How silly they are. They don’t care who’s watching. The way they want to know why about everything They still tell me things

Most people have one, and it rarely has to be dramatic.

What are you trying not to repeat?

The shouting Never knowing which version I’d get Being managed instead of talked to Nothing was ever quite enough

As much or as little as you want to put down.

What do you want your children to say about their childhood?

That it was happy. That’s all. That home was somewhere they could relax That they had lots of freedom That we did loads together as a family

Something they could say and mean, like “I can handle hard things”.

What would you like them to believe about themselves at eighteen?

That they can handle hard things That they’re loved whatever happens That they’re good enough as they are That it’s all right to ask for help

WHAT ALMANAC HEARD

Nora loves people openly, and you hope that never changes. You want her to leave home believing she can handle hard things. For yourself, you’re trying not to repeat the shouting, and you want home to be somewhere they could relax.

Worth trying this season: when you do snap, go back and put it right. It shows her that hard things can be handled.

What I can’t see yet: what the evenings are like, when everyone is tired.

INSIGHTS

See who they’re becoming.

Every answer moves the picture a little further, across ten parts of growing up, from character to health.

HABITS

Small things, most days, shape who they become.

Small things you can do many times a day, for what matters most. Mark the days you did them.

JOURNAL

Keep the weeks you’d otherwise forget.

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

The week of the drawing

It rained most of the week. Then Tuesday.

14 – 20 SEPTEMBER

First sleepover

Nora packed her own bag, and then packed it again.

7 – 13 SEPTEMBER

Robin’s new word

It was “mine”, and he used it all week.

31 AUGUST – 6 SEPTEMBER

Back to school

New shoes, and the same friend waiting at the gate.

THE WEEK OF 21 SEPTEMBER

The week of the drawing

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

Keep the moments that show who they are.

Add a photo and it becomes a card in their Trove. Star the ones you’ll want to show them one day.

Done · 12 Jun

Said sorry first

PAINTED FROM THE WORDSCHARACTER

She went back to Leo on her own and said sorry. Nobody asked her to.

NO. 004DONE
Done · 3 Aug

Finished the hard puzzle

PAINTED FROM THE WORDSCONFIDENCE

Two evenings, a lot of sighing, and she wouldn’t let me help. Then the last piece.

NO. 009DONE
Done · 19 Sep

Sat with the new girl

PAINTED FROM THE WORDSRELATIONSHIPS

A new girl was on her own at lunch. Nora sat with her, and on Friday brought her home.

NO. 012★ STARRED

ABOUT

A portrait of your child, in your words.

Almanac rewrites it after every interview. There’s a page about you too, so it knows how to talk to you.

About Nora

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.

Clearest so far Interests, FeelingsStill to explore Change, Health

ABOUT YOU · FROM YOUR INTERVIEW

You are shaping rather than managing. What you picked reads as someone with a clear idea of who they want Nora to become, and less certainty about how hard to push on the way there.

Another year of meaning to?

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

Almanac in seventy seconds.

From the first week to the last: what it’s like to have Almanac beside you.

Made for the eighteen years you get.

For parents

Everything in Almanac is for you. It’s where your thinking about your kids lives.

Birth to eighteen

The questions change as they grow, and so do the habits worth keeping.

A few minutes a week

Two or three check-ins a week is plenty. It fits the week you already have.

Private, and yours

What you tell Almanac is kept in your account, for your family. Delete it whenever you want.

Almanac

Grow up alongside them.

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