Children thrive when they are known.
The world your child will grow up in is uncertain. The capacities that carry them through it are not. KNOWN brings together research from developmental psychology, attachment science, neuroscience, public health, and motivation science into one framework, so you can understand the child in front of you and give them what they need to grow those capacities. For any future.
You cannot demand a capacity while neglecting the conditions that grow it.
Conditions
What a child needs around them
Safety, connection, attunement, belonging, autonomy, appropriate challenge, and contribution.
Practices
What adults do to create those conditions
Model and lend calm, hold the boundary, talk it through, make room, hand over, and repair.
Capacities
What grows within the child
Self understanding, self regulation, agency, adaptability with integrity, relational capacity, discernment, generative capacity, and meaning making.
Start where you are.
Regulate, Read, Respond
The KNOWN method, step by step: find your own calm, read what your child needs, and respond. For parents of children ages 2 to 10.
Help for the hard moment
One hard moment per guide, from tantrums to bedtime fears, with every age from 2 to 10 inside.
For your child's biggest need
Seven Kits, one for each everyday need, with guides for you inside. The quiz shows which one fits.
Every guide in one place
All 24 KNOWN guides, every age from 2 to 10 inside, so the next guide is there when what is hard changes.
Every guide shows its sources.
KNOWN uses peer reviewed research that keeps your child's wellbeing first. Each guide ends with Sources and context, so you can see what it draws on.
How KNOWN chooses researchNot sure where to start?
Answer a few questions about your child. See the need that could use the most care right now, and where to start.
Teaching at home?
Learning belongs to your child. KNOWN helps you make home a place where your child feels safe, close and free to try, at every age from 2 to 10.
Find what your child needsBringing KNOWN to your community?
Read the white paper on the KNOWN Framework and the research behind it, written to share with your team.
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