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with two homes.

The calendar, the messages, the expenses and your child’s record, calm and in one place. For the parents who get along, and for the days they don’t.

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A mother and father standing apart with their two children between them

Message from Camille

SUMMARY

Camille wants Friday's handover confirmed. Nothing else needs a decision tonight.

You CALM & ON RECORD

That works for me. I can collect them from school on Friday at 3.30 and keep them until Sunday evening.

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A look inside Manon.

Three screens from the app itself — the day ahead, the day set down, and the record it becomes.

The Manon home screen: a greeting, who has the children today, and the day’s overview — Home — who has the children, and what today holds.

Home — who has the children, and what today holds.

The Manon logbook, asking how you are holding up, with a microphone to speak into — The logbook — speak, and the day is kept.

The logbook — speak, and the day is kept.

The Manon journal for one child: shortcuts to health, school, emergency and documents, above a record of recent moments — The journal — health, school, and the moments in between.

The journal — health, school, and the moments in between.

WHY THIS EXISTS

The point was never the messages.

A child does not experience a separation through the paperwork. They experience it through you. Whether you are calm at breakfast. Whether you are present at bedtime. Whether the handover is brisk and warm, or tense and long.

So when Manon stands between you and a message built to provoke you, that is not a messaging feature. It is the twenty minutes you get back before you next see your child.

Everything here is in service of one thing: that your children get the version of you that is not exhausted.

Some co-parents are not merely difficult. Where messages are used to wear a person down, filtering that noise is not cosmetic. It is the difference between a parent who can function that evening and one who cannot.

Manon is not a safety tool. If you are frightened, or if your children are, that needs a lawyer and in some cases the police, not a better inbox. But for the daily grind of hostility, this is exactly what it was built for.

A parent crouching with their arms around two children

WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS

It is the conflict, not the separation.

Decades of developmental research point the same way. How children fare after their parents separate tracks the conflict between those parents more closely than it tracks the separation itself.

The same research is specific about which conflict does the damage: conflict that is frequent, intense, about the child, and left unresolved. Where parents disagree without animosity, about things that are not the child, and reach a conclusion, the effect on children is markedly different.

That is an unusually actionable finding. It is close to a specification, and it is the one Manon was built against.

Frequent

Fewer exchanges, because a summary answers what six messages were circling.

Intense

The heat comes out before you read it, not after you have reacted.

About the child

Drafts stay on the logistics and keep your child out of the middle.

Unresolved

Conversation summaries record what was actually agreed.

And for most families this is a season rather than a life. Conflict after separation typically eases within two to three years. For a minority it does not, and those are the families this was built hardest for.

If none of this is your week, good. The calendar, the expenses and the record are there all the same.

Sources: Harold and Sellers, Annual Research Review, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2018. Grych, Seid and Fincham, Child Development, 1992. Harold and Murch, 2005.

TODAY’S OVERVIEW

Something for you, most days.

Not a notification. Not a streak. Not a nudge to come back. A short note about your own children, for the day you are actually having.

It knows their names and their ages. It never asks you to log anything, and it never tells you that you are behind.

On the days when the co-parenting is the whole of it, this is the part that remembers you are a parent rather than a party to something.

ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN

When Jules makes a mistake — missing a goal, getting frustrated, or losing his temper — try pausing and saying something like, ‘Everyone misses sometimes, even me,’ then moving forward without dwelling on it. Kids learn resilience not from being perfect, but from watching you dust yourself off with kindness.

FOR YOUR CHILD

THE DIFFERENCE

You shouldn't have to read it to answer it.

Everyone else edits you. Manon stands in front of you. Tone tools assume the problem is your words. Often it is not. The problem is the message that landed at 11:47pm, the one you will read four times before you sleep, the one that decides how tomorrow goes.

So Manon takes that first. It holds the message back, reads it for you, and tells you the one thing in it that actually needs an answer. The reply is drafted and waiting. Opening the original is always one tap away, and always your choice.