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A field guide to your child

See your child as they naturally are.

Faunaly is a parent-completed assessment that maps your child's temperament to one of sixteen animal archetypes, then turns that picture into practical, research-based guidance tuned to how your child thinks, connects, and grows.

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Free to take. About ten minutes. Built for ages 3 to 5, with older bands on the way.

Faunaly
Fox · the quick-thinking explorer
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archetypes
How it works

Three steps. About ten minutes.
A field guide to who your child is today.

You already know your child better than anyone. The assessment turns the things you notice every day into a grounded portrait of how they think, connect, and grow.

How it works
Three steps.
About ten minutes.
A field guide to who your child is today.
01
Answer a few questions

The questions are calibrated to ages 3 to 5 and anchored in specific, observable behavior, not generalized across childhood. It takes about ten minutes.

02
Meet their animal

Your answers map to one of sixteen animal archetypes, drawn from Jungian dimensions and developmental research. Meet the animal your child most resembles.

03
Get guidance built for them

A developmental report on how your child learns, connects, and reacts, plus calibrated, research-based guidance for the everyday moments of parenting.

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The sixteen archetypes

Sixteen animals.
One is unmistakably yours.

Each archetype is drawn from naturalist observation and developmental personality research, illustrated in the spirit of a natural history field guide.

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From insight to action

Knowing your child is only half of it.

Seeing them clearly is the input. What you do with that picture is the point. Every Faunaly report turns your child's nature into practical, age-appropriate guidance, calibrated to them, grounded in developmental research.

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Grounded in developmental science

Not a quiz. A framework built on decades of research.

Faunaly draws on the temperament research of Mary K. Rothbart, Alexander Thomas, and Stella Chess, who identified stable, observable patterns in children long before a child can describe themselves.

We pair those behavioral dimensions with Jungian archetypes: a language that is grounded in science and written for parents rather than clinicians.

The guidance is held to the same standard. It draws on research in emotion regulation, effortful control, and differential susceptibility, the science of how the same parenting lands differently on different children.

Informed by Rothbart (2011), Thomas & Chess (1977), Kagan (1994), Jung (1921), Dweck (1998), Eisenberg (2010), Belsky & Pluess (2009).
Faunaly is an insight tool, not a clinical assessment.
An insight tool, not a diagnosis.
The report describes tendencies and patterns in plain language. It is built to help you understand your child, never to label or diagnose them.
Calibrated for ages 3 to 5.
Every question is anchored to this specific developmental window, with behavioral cues a parent of a young child will recognize at once.
We collect nothing about your child.
No names, no photos, no identifying details. You answer the questions, and your data stays yours.
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What you receive

More than a result.
A field guide you will return to.

The free assessment reveals your child's animal. The full report is a detailed, warmly written guide to who they are right now, organized into five chapters.

  1. 01Who your child is right nowA clear snapshot of their temperament, and the one reframe most parents miss.
  2. 02The animal behind the archetypeThe real species, why your child fits it, and the partner protecting it.
  3. 03Guidance calibrated to your childConcrete scripts and strategies, tuned to your child's temperament, for the moments you actually face.
  4. 04The road aheadHow this nature grows with them, and when to check back in.
  5. 05Research foundationThe developmental science behind it all, if you want it.
Read the Sea Otter sample
Free to take. The full report is $14.99, one time. No subscription.
The Sea Otter, a sample Faunaly field guide cover
What you receive

More than a result. A field guide you will return to.

The free assessment reveals your child's animal. The full report is a detailed, warmly written guide to who they are right now, organized into five chapters.

Read the Sea Otter sample
Free to take. The full report is $14.99, one time. No subscription.
01
Who your child is right now
A clear snapshot of their temperament, and the one reframe most parents miss.
02
The animal behind the archetype
The real species, why your child fits it, and the partner protecting it.
03
Guidance calibrated to your child
Concrete scripts and strategies, tuned to your child's temperament, for the moments you actually face.
04
The road ahead
How this nature grows with them, and when to check back in.
05
Research foundation
The developmental science behind it all, if you want it.
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Why parents return to it

Not a label they outgrow. A lens you keep coming back to.

Our oldest was four when we realized we had been parenting an idea of her, not the child in front of us. Faunaly is the tool we wish we had: a way to see each of our girls clearly, name what we see, and connect them to a world far bigger than our family.

Angelo & Priscilla  ·  Founders, parents of two

It named something we had felt but never had words for. Reading our Fox's guide felt like someone had been watching at the dinner table.

Parent of a Fox, age 4

Grounded and specific, not a horoscope. The way it described how our Owl processes a hard day changed how we handle bedtime.

Parent of an Owl, age 5

I expected a cute label. I got a genuinely useful guide that I keep coming back to as our Sea Otter grows.

Parent of a Sea Otter, age 3
Why parents return to it
Not a label they outgrow. A lens you keep coming back to.

Our oldest was four when we realized we had been parenting an idea of her, not the child in front of us. Faunaly is the tool we wish we had: a way to see each of our girls clearly, name what we see, and connect them to a world far bigger than our family.

Angelo & Priscilla · Founders, parents of two

It named something we had felt but never had words for. Reading our Fox's guide felt like someone had been watching at the dinner table.

Parent of a Fox, age 4

Grounded and specific, not a horoscope. The way it described how our Owl processes a hard day changed how we handle bedtime.

Parent of an Owl, age 5

I expected a cute label. I got a genuinely useful guide that I keep coming back to as our Sea Otter grows.

Parent of a Sea Otter, age 3
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A portion of every report supports the conservation of your child's matched animal. Understanding one child, protecting one species. We believe the two belong together. Learn how

Find your child's animal.

Free to take, about ten minutes, built for ages 3 to 5. Support for ages 6 to 8 and 9 to 11 are coming soon.

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