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ALMANAC
Almanac is like a friend who knows your family and helps you raise your kids on purpose.
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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’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.”
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.”
Then move the homework, not Nora. Ten minutes straight after school, before she’s spent, while Robin has his snack.
Want me to remember any of this?
INTERVIEWS
About your child, and about you. A few each week, chosen for their age. Tap an answer, or say it in your own words.
It writes back what it heard and what might help. And the next questions fit your child a little better.
Something they’ve had since they were tiny? Something you worry the world will knock out of them?
Most people have one, and it rarely has 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”.
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
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. Mark the days you did them.
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.
A new girl was on her own at lunch. Nora sat with her, and on Friday brought her home.
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 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.
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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