The First Ever Natalist Kids' Book

We hope the first of many

We put our minds to it, we wrote you a book,

Now we have every hope you’ll take a look.

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Congratulate us.

The first ever (we think) Natalist kid’s book is going on sale December 22 in Kindle, and in either paperback or hardcover.

Pre-order from Amazon. It is priced to make the decision easy for you. For pre-orders only, 99 cents.

Please subscribe now so you can get a notice when the paperback becomes available. (The paperback is going to have family-specific customizable options that the e-book will lack). We cherish your support.

We wanted to do two things:

• have an explicit message that good parents having big families is great for everybody, especially for the parents and the kids

  • adding a direct message that kids should then do the same when they grow up

• make it tremendously fun.

This was easy to do. Shockingly easy. We now think that most message fiction is bad because the messages are bad and the writers are bad.

We started with a rollicking rhyme where Dad and Mom face down various foes and busybodies who want them not have kids. They do so in a raucous, boisterous, kid-pleasing manner. There’s nothing kids love more than the thought of Mom and Dad being just a little bit naughty.

The rhyme then celebrates the big family as it fills the home with life, and then as its children grow to become leaders and explorers and parents in their own right

We wrote the words. Our high school daughter did most of the illustrations in intervals between sports and band and AP Chem. We had a blast. We highly recommend making a kid’s book as a family project and will give you pointers if you ask.

Why should you buy the book, and the paperback/hardback when they come out?

First, there’s you and your family to think about. A fun, rollicking book adds heft to your own teachings about the importance of your children having children. Rhyme sticks in the mind. It’s nearly effortless reinforcement.

Second, over the long term we have to, we must, create a culture. There is no substitute. Culture begins with shared reference points. Books on natalism are an obvious schelling point.

When you buy the book, help them customize the paper version, and read it to them, you are not only shaping who they will become—you are shaping who they will belong with. They need to know there are others out there.

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It's not about "making people have kids" or "bribing people to have kids.

It's about finding, building, & supporting productive high-TFR communities.

There are already little families & tribes who have solved this problem for themselves, in the short run - but they need to find each other so they can solve the problem again for the next generation

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Along those lines, we received extremely valuable help on book-publishing from the author of Professor Copper’s Tactical Primer. We have a copy ourselves. Won’t you consider getting one also? Your kids will love it; it makes them feel wildly grown-up. And it gets them thinking in real-world terms that most education ignores.