Real families.
Real chaos.
A way through.
Welcome to the home of...
How To Get Your Family To Do Stuff
— parent-tested, science-backed, occasionally ridiculous field guides for the daily battles every family fights. Bedtime. Screens. Homework. The stuff nobody warns you about.
We're George and Julene Gervais — parents of three, survivors of bedtime. We lost the nightly battles in our own house for years before we figured out that getting your kids to actually cooperate and staying close to them weren't opposite goals — they were the same one, done right. So we started writing it down. This is where all of it lives.
Already read the book?
Then this part's for you.
You already know how we think. And more is coming — more Manuals for more battles: Brush Their Teeth. Clean Their Room. Off Their Phone.
And the upcoming book everyone keeps asking about,
How To Get Your Husband To Do Anything You Want.
Also Introducing:
"Nobody Authorized This"
A monthly publication about
Real families. Real chaos.
A way through.
It's our publication for parents in the trenches — the disasters, the small wins, the 1:30am cheeseburger you didn't authorize. (If you've read the book, you know the one.) Real people. Real stories.
The first issue lands in your inbox this fall.
Add your name now and you're a founding reader: you'll get every issue first, early word on each new Manual before anyone else, and a hand in what goes in — because we're building the first issue from real stories, and we'll be asking for yours.
Haven't met the Bedtime Manual yet?
Start where every family's night gets hardest. How To Get Your Kids To Go To Bed — The Manual is the parent-tested, entertaining, science-backed, no-hype field guide for tired humans raising other tired humans. And you can get a taste for free.
Grab a free sample chapter — plus the Bedtime Battle Cheat Sheet. It's the one thing we wish we'd had taped to the fridge, back when we started.
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