The New Intake
Expectations, the first six weeks, building a village and looking after the grown-ups.
THE FAMILY COLLEGE · FIRST EDITION
The Field Guide
for Families.
Nobody trains you for a family.
So we built a college.
A hilarious, useful course in bedtimes, relatives and staying on the same team. Thirty short lectures, from the weeks before a child arrives to the day your own parents start needing a ride.
Book: US$9.99 · Book + courses: US$12.99
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OFFICIALLY ON THE SYLLABUS
Family life.
Now with field notes.
Each lecture includes a case study, sentences you can borrow, a three-line cheat sheet, a short exam and one small assignment. The Faculty takes your family seriously. Its own academic grandeur is another matter.
The Governing Body
The mental load, shared decisions, grandparents, money and ten minutes not about the children.
The Lower School
Toddlers, screens, school mornings, listening and discipline without the drama.
The Upper School
Teenagers, phones, privacy, trust and keeping the door open.
Every Kind of Family
Blended families, two homes, single parents, adoption and the families we choose.
The Alumni Association
Family traditions, the group chat, hard years and parents who are getting older.
A PEEK INSIDE · FROM THE FIRST EDITION
A word from
the Registrar.
A family is the only organisation most of us will ever join without an interview. Nobody checked your references. You were not asked whether you wanted a brother. The post of parent, if you hold it, was filled without a handover, by a person who had last been in sole charge of a houseplant. And the people who trained you, such as they were, learned the job from people who had never been asked either.
This book fills the gap. It is a complete course in thirty short lectures, from the weeks before a child arrives to the day your own parents start needing lifts. Along the way there are case studies, sentences you may borrow and small examinations that can be passed while waiting outside a swimming lesson. It is meant to make you laugh. It is also meant to make you slightly easier to live with, and the Faculty has never accepted that those are separate aims.
Excerpt from “Orientation: A Word from the Registrar.” The book uses British spelling.
YOUR FAMILY READING LIST
A little reading.
A lot to bring home.
THE DIGITAL BOOK
The Field Guide for Families
US$9.99
First edition · English · PDF + EPUB
- 30 short lectures across six parts
- 90 exam questions inside the book
- Case studies, sentences to borrow and cheat sheets
- One small assignment after every lecture
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Read it. Try it. Grow together.
US$12.99
The digital book + Family Life, with Honors.
- The book in PDF + EPUB
- All 21 online Family courses and 105 lessons
- Seven levels, exams and retakes
- FC badges, certificates and diplomas earned as you pass
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Start Newbie free →The book’s 30 lectures and the online program’s 21 courses are separate learning formats. Reading the book does not award online certificates. College awards are for education and fun, not accredited qualifications.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Belong to a family?
You qualify.
For parents, co-parents, step-parents, foster caregivers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, grown-up children and chosen families. One parent is a full team. The jokes are on the adult reading, never the children or the way a family came together.
A thoughtful read for a new arrival, a birthday, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or a family milestone. Give it with affection, never as a performance review.
Humor and general guidance, not a substitute for professional advice. Paperback production files are prepared, but no paperback purchase link or release date has been confirmed.
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