The first ever natalist kid’s book is now available in paperback, the way it was meant to be.
Give it a whirl. Buy a copy of your own.
Below we have why you should buy it in paperback specifically. Why autists should buy it. Why non-autists should buy it. Why your kids or grandkids will like it. And why you, our prized reader, should buy it.
… buy it, love it, and leave a review.
Why Paperback
Because you can customize the paper version. It was designed that way.
There is a digital version (announcement here) but that version is only meant for people who want to try before they buy. That’s a cheap teaser for the real product. The paperback is the real product.
We all know the reasons why tangible, tactile objects have more oomph than digital ones. Presence, discoverability, and so on.
This paperback has more than that. It is meant to be a celebration of YOUR family, so its built for you to customize the book. At the appropriate places in the narrative, you write in what your family calls Dad and Mom and other specifics to your family. The Dad and Mom illustrations are outlines for you and your children to add your hair, your eye color, your characteristic clothing, and so on. At the end, there should be a feeling of ownership: This isn’t just a product we consumed. We helped produce it. At the end, there should also be a sense that the book is about you.
Why Autists Should Buy It
A book lends outside prestige to your family project and allows you to reinforce family cultural values from a different angle. Repetition is the basis for culture but repetition quickly faces diminishing marginal returns unless the repetition has something different or novel about it. Yes, Our Family is the Best fits the bill.
Further, later steps in your family project require your children meeting and marrying like-minded individuals. The procedure for enabling this is to create a culture or subculture: a common set of understood references and experiences that drastically reduce social costs. Sociality, like water, tends to flow where it is easiest. The ideal cultural experience is one that is common among the cultural group but very uncommon outside it, and exemplifies cultural distinctives about the group.
Yes, Our Family is the Best
But there’s a coordination problem. How can you predict what other family founders are going to predict that you will predict are the books and other cultural experiences you are all going to settle on? You aren’t in communication with these people. You mostly don’t know who they are.
So you need a Schelling point. For natalist parents, that would be the first ever natalist kids’ book. Voila.
Yes, Our Family is the Best
Why Should Non-Autists Buy It
Because its crazy fun with rollicking rhymes and eye-catching illustrations that build to the climax.
Why Your Kids or Grandkids Will Like It
Because its crazy fun with rollicking rhymes and eye-catching illustrations that build to the climax.
Because it has Dad and Mom maybe being just a bit transgressive, whacking critters on the head and so forth. Kids love that.
Because it has a sing-song element to it.
Because they get to scribble in it.
Because it has a stained glass rocket on the front!
Why You, Our Prized Reader, Should Buy It
And why you should leave a review.
And why you should become a billionaire so you can place copies in every library in the land.
Because you care about us and we care about you, and you want to show your support. Buying a copy is like a pat on the back.
Testimonials
I only regret that I have but one natalist kids’ book to read to my children.
-Nathan Hale.
Whoso hath Yes, Our Family is the Best hath a good thing.
-King Solomon
Speak softly and carry Yes, Our Family is the Best.
-Teddy Roosevelt
The bombing starts in five minutes.
-Ronald Reagan