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The Kids Are All Right Preorder

The Kids Are All Right

Order your book by October 22nd for access to a virtual Q&A with authors Gabrielle and Ben and other exclusive offers!

Pre-Order Your Copy of The Kids Are All Right by Gabrielle and Ben Blair

for access to an exclusive virtual Ask-Us-Anything event, digital downloads, a complimentary paid subscription to the Design Mom newsletter, and a discount when you join the Blair’s new Discussion Group! These bonuses are available to anyone who pre-orders and to anyone who orders through October 22nd, the first week of the book launch.

Order your book and fill out the form to receive:

  • An exclusive invitation to a virtual Q&A with authors Gabrielle and Ben on Thursday, October 24 at 7pm ET.
    Gabrielle and Ben will answer your questions about parenting, writing a book together, raising a family abroad, and anything else you’d like to chat about!*
  • Exclusive digital downloads with encouraging messages from the book—use them as a phone wallpaper or print them as fridge posters.
  • Complimentary paid subscription to the Design Mom newsletter—30 days of complimentary access to all the locked content on Gabrielle’s Substack.
  • A discount when you join the Blair’s first ever Discussion Club—a private group with Instagram Lives, Zoom hangouts, book discussions, and workshops taught by experts, happening throughout November.

*The event will take place on Thursday, October 24 at 7:00 pm ET. An invite with details will be emailed to customers ahead of time. The event will be recorded and emailed to those who order but aren’t able to attend live.

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THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT

From Design Mom blogger Gabrielle Blair and her husband, Ben Blair, a unique guide that subverts the concept of “perfect parenting” by embracing uncertainty.

Parents today are often filled with anxiety, overwhelmed with the feeling that every parenting decision carries paralyzing high stakes. The Kids Are All Right gives parents the tools to set these anxieties to the side and connect more meaningfully with their children and the actual issues they face. The book provides relatable examples and insightful frameworks to help parents approach parenting with confidence rather than reacting to cultural fears about screen time or college admissions.

Gabrielle and Ben Blair are the parents of six and have been raising kids for over two decades. Through the years, they’ve charted their own unconventional path: working from home before remote work was a thing; uprooting their kids four, five, six times – including a move to France where they enrolled in local schools without knowing the language. It’s been a unique parenting journey characterized by experimentation, trial and error, decisions prompted by financial or psychological necessity, varying levels of anxiety and tension, despair, and hope. This unique path turned out to be fertile soil for growing independent, resilient, and creative kids, and a family that is genuinely close and truly enjoys each other’s company.  

With this book they share how they did it, and show how we can too, and in so doing, offer a heaping serving of relief. They show how to let go of tired expectations of what it means to be a good parent; how to push back against the latest moral panic; and how to come to terms with the reality that the old rules won’t necessarily apply in the future. But more than pushing back and letting go, they show what it looks like to build thriving relationships that extend beyond the first 18 years. 

Order today at Hachette, the retailers listed below, or your local independent bookstore!


About the Authors

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Gabrielle Stanley Blair

About the Author

Gabrielle Stanley Blair is the founder of Alt Summit, the blockbuster biannual conference for lifestyle bloggers and creative entrepreneurs, currently in its twelfth year. She is also the founder of DesignMom.com. Started in 2006, it has been named a Website of the Year by Time magazine, praised as a top parenting blog by The Wall Street Journal, Parents, and Better Homes & Gardens, and won the Iris Award for Blog of the Year. Her first book, Design Mom: How to Live with Kids, a New York Times bestseller, was published in 2015 by Artisan.

On her website, Gabrielle covers the intersection of design and parenting, with thoughtful posts on topics like how to talk to your kids about sex, family travel, food kids will really eat, political issues, and family-friendly design.

Gabrielle and her husband, Ben Blair, have six children—Ralph, Maude, Olive, Oscar, Betty, and Flora June. Her family divides their time between the United States and France. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @designmom.

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Ben Blair

About the Author

Ben Blair holds a PhD in Philosophy and Education from Columbia University. He is a Cofounder and President of Newlane University. Started in 2017, Newlane is an online university with a mission to make quality liberal arts higher education accessible to anyone on earth by breaking down barriers of cost, schedule, and geography. Newlane students and professors are based in 40+ different countries. Newlane offers affordable, accredited Bachelor’s degrees.

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