This is not a book about changing your child’s politics.

It is a book about raising someone who can function in the real world—one that is complicated, imperfect, and shared with people who disagree.

Written as a serious parody, How a Liberal Parent Raises a Normal, Employable Conservative Child follows a child raised in a liberal household full of books, empathy, and questions. Over time, through work, relationships, institutions, and lived consequences, habits of mind begin to form. Not through rebellion or indoctrination—but through experience.

What emerges is not a manifesto, but a temperament:
a preference for responsibility over slogans,
for systems that work over intentions that feel good,
and for restraint in a world addicted to certainty.

Told in short, reflective pages paired with original artwork, this book explores parenting, adulthood, disagreement, work, and the quiet forces that shape belief over time. It is thoughtful, dryly humorous, and deliberately restrained.

This book is for:

• parents who value curiosity over conformity

• readers exhausted by political shouting matches

• anyone who suspects that competence, responsibility, and humility still matter

No villains.
No heroes.

Just a family, a world, and a long conversation between them.

Things are still working.
That is enough.