A free, living book for new parents.

I grew up outside. That's the simplest way I can put it. My mum and my dad, Glenn, made sure of it, and we were rarely indoors. Sitting on a rug in the backyard, trying new foods. Music playing while a fire crackled somewhere behind us. Days at the beach, days at the lake, afternoons spent mushrooming in the bush. Running naked in the yard, sun on our skin, dirt under our nails. It wasn't a philosophy back then. It was just childhood.

It was only later, becoming a parent myself, that I understood what my mum had actually given us: time. Slow, unhurried, present time. The kind that lets you notice a baby's first real belly laugh, or the way a toddler stops mid-step to stare at an ant. She always told me to catch those moments. The small ones, and the big milestones too. The ordinary hours that turn out to be the ones you remember.

That's what she asked me to carry forward: go slow with your babies. Let the moment you're in be the one that matters.

Because the world around new parents is loud.

Somewhere along the way, having a baby became one of the most expensive, most cluttered, most gadget-filled experiences a family can take on. Registries with hundreds of items. Products for every possible scenario. It's easy to end up so surrounded by things that the time and space to simply be outside with your child gets squeezed out.

So I started Go Slow Baby.

The first part is a book. A living, growing resource I'm building with expecting and new parents everywhere, gathering the best go-slow wisdom from families around the world, including my own mum. It's free, it always will be, and it keeps growing. My team and I update it as new stories and ideas come in. My hope is that it becomes a generous, practical companion for instinctual, outdoors parenting, something families can come back to whenever the world feels too loud.

The second part is practical: a calculator to help you plan your money honestly before baby arrives. The truth is, you need far less than the industry tells you. Less stuff means more room. More time outside, more presence, more space between you and your child for the good things.

Go Slow Baby is my way of giving back what I was given: permission to slow down, to trust your instincts, and to let your kids get dirty, get sun, and get bored enough to notice the world around them.

If that's the kind of parenting you want more of, grab the free book below. And if you have a go-slow memory or a piece of advice of your own, I'd love for it to become part of the book.