FOR FAMILIES · AGES 5–12
Your child isn't giving you a hard time. They're having a hard time.
Young Mind Masters is a calm, screen-free daily habit that helps children notice a big feeling, name it, and choose what comes next — long before it turns into a slammed door.
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THE THING NOBODY TELLS YOU
A meltdown isn't your child being difficult. It's a storm passing through — and right now, they have no shelter and no words for it.
Children feel everything before they can name anything. We don't teach them to push feelings down or "stay positive." We teach them something steadier: how to see what's happening inside, give it a name, and stay in the driver's seat anyway.
MEET THE GRUMPIES
The five patterns that come to visit
Big feelings are easier to handle when they have a face and a name. The Grumpies aren't villains, and they aren't a voice inside your child. They're visiting patterns — and once your child can spot one at the door, they get to decide whether to let it run the day.
Judgey
Jovo
THE
NOT-GOOD-
ENOUGH
PATTERN
Whispers that the drawing's wrong, the goal was missed, the friend is better. Quick to criticize.
Worried
Wovo
THE
WHAT-IF
PATTERN
Spins up every possible disaster before breakfast. Loud at bedtime and before anything new.
Gloomy
Glomo
THE
HEAVY
PATTERN
Pulls everything grey and slow. Makes "I can't" feel like the whole truth.
Bossy
Boza
THE
MY-WAY
PATTERN
Has to be in charge of the game, the rules, the room. Turns small things into standoffs.
Bouncy
Beb
THE
CAN'T-SETTLE
PATTERN
Buzzing, blurting, leaping from thing to thing. Hard to land, harder to rest.
The shift parents notice first: their child stops being the feeling and starts spotting it. "Wovo's loud tonight" is a very different child than one swallowed whole by worry.
THE HABIT AT THE HEART OF IT
Notice · Name · Choose
Three small moves, practiced daily until they're automatic. Not a worksheet. A reflex your child carries into every hard moment, for the rest of their life.
1
Notice
That tight chest, hot face, racing thought — the body signal that something's here.
“Something feels big right now.”
2
Name
Put a name to the visitor. Naming a feeling is the moment it stops running the show.
“That’s Worried Wovo.”
3
Choose
With a little space made, your child picks the next move instead of being picked by the feeling.
“I can breathe, then try again.”
FOR YOU, TOO
Your child learns the language. You learn how to hold it.
Children borrow calm from the grown-ups around them before they can find it on their own. So Young Mind Masters doesn't just hand your child a skill and wish you luck — it brings you in first. A short parent track teaches you the same map your child gets, so the words mean something at your kitchen table.
It's the part most programs leave out, and the part that makes the rest actually stick.
WHAT THE PARENT TRACK GIVES YOU
The same map your child gets
You both speak one language at home — so "Wovo's loud tonight" lands instead of confusing.
What to say in the hot moment
Simple words that open a child up instead of shutting them down — and the ones to skip.
How to be the calm, not catch the storm
Staying steady when your child isn't is a skill, not a personality trait. You can practice it.
Short, audio-first, no homework
Built for a real parent's day. A few minutes between school run and bedtime, same as your child's.
THE CALM PART
The Wizard is the part of your child that can watch the storm without becoming it.
The Wizard isn't a hero who fights the Grumpies. It's the quiet, steady observer inside every child — the part that can step back and say, "there's that pattern again." We're not adding something foreign. We're handing your child a name for the calm that was always theirs, and a way to find it on purpose.
BUILT ON REAL RESEARCH
Why these small moves work
Every part of the method is borrowed from established science on how feelings settle. Here's what each move is made of — in plain terms.
Naming calms the alarm
Putting feelings into words is linked to quieter activity in the brain's alarm system. Naming a feeling helps take the edge off it.
Affect labelling research
Stepping outside it
Turning a feeling into a "visitor" gives a child distance from it, instead of being swallowed by it — the heart of narrative approaches.
Externalization · narrative practice
A little distance, more control
When children view a hard moment from a small step back, they manage it better — the effect behind "be your calmest self."
Self-distancing studies
Slow breath, steadier body
Slow, paced breathing is one of the simplest reliable ways to bring the body's stress response back down. The Figure-8 makes it a game.
Paced-breathing research
A DAY WITH IT
It fits in the cracks of an ordinary day
No new screen.
No homework feel.
A few minutes of audio your child can do on the rug, in the car, or with you at the kitchen table.
Ages 5–9 track
Ages 9–12 track
Eyes rest, imagination works.
Nothing to scroll, nothing to win.
Short by design.
The 90-second anchor is the part that sticks.
Notice · Name · Choose, again and again, until it's a reflex.
THE HONEST PROMISE
We're not promising a calmer week. We're teaching a habit your child keeps for life.
Quick fixes fade. The children who do well aren't the ones who never feel worried or angry — they're the ones who learned, young, how to notice it and choose anyway. That's the whole game. That's what we're for.
SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING
One plan, shaped to your family.
No tiers to decode, no "premium" version of your child's wellbeing held back. Your plan covers your child's age track and the full parent mode.
BEST VALUE
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Free
[$0]
A taste of the habit - no card needed.
- The first few lessons
- Meet one of the Grumpies
- See how it lands at home
PAY AS YOU GO
Monthly
[$][XX] /mo
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
- One age track - your child's band (5-9 or 9-12)
- The full [52 week] journey, new audio weekly
- All five Grumpies and the Wizard practices daily
- The parent module included
Add the second age track
Siblings in both bands?
Just [X]/mo more.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
Annual
[$][XXX] /yr
[X] months free
works out to [$][XX]/mo.
- One age track - your child's band (5–9 or 9–12)
- The full [52 week] journey, new audio weekly
- All five Grumpies and the Wizard practices
- The parent module included
- Save [X]% vs paying monthly
Add the second age track
Siblings in both bands?
Just [X]/mo more.
If this is the kind of childhood you want to give them — let's see if it fits.
No long sign-up, no pressure. Just a closer look at how Young Mind Masters could land in your home.
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