Expected: early 2027.

Raise ‘Em Right follows a child from birth to eighteen, one chapter for every year — because the child at eight months and the child at eight years need entirely different things from the adults raising them. Each chapter braids a Montessori principle for what the child needs from the world around them with a Stoic reflection for what steadies the parent supplying it, and closes with a short list of things to try that same week. There’s no formula here, only ideas to sit with, borrow from, and argue with as your child — and your life — keep changing shape.

Written for parents whose children don’t fit the mold the advice books quietly assume, and for parents simply tired of pretending they do, Raise ‘Em Right weaves in callouts to Misaligned, Philip’s memoir of growing up with an undiagnosed neurodivergent mind, as one example of the child the map so often leaves out. Beneath the daily work runs a quieter thread: a child who learns to observe carefully, reason honestly, and take responsibility for their own actions is being prepared not just for adulthood, but for the kind of citizenship a family, a neighborhood, and a country depend on.

Wherever you are in the work, however long you’ve been at it, this book starts where you are.