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Thinking Skills for Kids *Ages 5 to 12* 5 min a day

A skill they'll practice day by day.

And use for a lifetime.

Built for parent and child together — because a child's calm starts with yours. 

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Notice. Name. Choose.

A simple, repeatable skill — built on how the brain actually works.
Naming creates distance. Distance creates choice.

SEE HOW IT WORKS

Two ways in. 

One skill. Built for home and for school.

For families

 

A program built for family life as it really is.

 

A self-guided program you can use over breakfast, on the school run, at bedtime. Five-minute rituals. Audio stories your child will actually request. Conversation cards with do's and dont's for tough moments — so you stop reaching for words and start reaching for the right tool.

  • Five-minute audio lessons — press play at breakfast, in the car, or at bedtime
  • Screen Free Audio Lessons — for parent and child to listen together, not one more thing to manage
  • Meet the Grumpies and Wizards — a shared language for big feelings
  • Printables to practice between lessons: calm cards, an emotion decoder, a family challenge
  • YMM includes modules for both the child and the parent.

 

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For educators

 

A whole-school mental fitness program your teachers will actually want to teach. 

 

A complete implementation that doesn't require a PhD or a 200-page instuction manual. Real lessons, real scripts, real measurement instruments — packaged so your team achieves results and they feel supported.

  • Five-minute audio lessons — the program does the teaching, you just press play
  • Two age tracks: 5–8 and 9–12
  • No prep, no script to deliver — fits the five minutes you already have
  • Illustration-style classroom posters and printable workbooks
  • Volume licensing & teacher onboarding included

 

See if we’re a good match

If any of this sounds familiar...

You're not failing.

You're watching a child who hasn't been taught the skill yet.

Tuesday, 7:42am

"I can't do it. I'm bad at math. I'm not even going."

— before a normal school day

Friday, 4:15pm

"Nobody likes me. Everyone
was mean to me today."

— in the back seat, for the third time this week

Sunday, bedtime

"I'm so stupid. I always get it
wrong."

— over a piece of homework

The thoughts aren't the problem. Not knowing what to do with them is.

Show them what to do with the thought — free lesson

An honest word, before you start

This isn't a quick fix.

And that's exactly why it works.

"Think of it the way you think about teaching kids to read." We won't promise results in 14 days. Anything you teach in 14 days wouldn't last anyway. Mastering your own thoughts is a skill — like reading, like piano, like riding a bike. It needs to be practiced. A little. Every day. For a season.

And then — quietly, almost invisibly — it stops being something your child has to try. It just becomes how they think. For the rest of their life.

Reading

 

  • A few minutes a day.
  • Months of practice.
  • Then they read fluently —for the rest of their life.

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Young Mind Masters

 

  • A few minutes a day.
  • Months of practice.
  • Then they think clearly — for the rest of their life.

You'd never doubt it's worth it for reading. It's just as worth it for this 

What the journey actually looks like

The honest timeline of a young mind master.

1

Month 1-2

Everyone meets the Grumpies and Wizards — children and the adults guiding them.

Your child meets the first five Grumpies and finally has a name for the loud thought patterns. You learn the same names too — so when a hard moment comes, you both reach for the same words. That shared language is where it starts.

2

months 3-4

Practicing in calm moments.

Through daily 5-minute stories, they rehearse the skill while nothing is on the line — like practicing scales before a recital. You practice too: staying calm first, so they have your calm to borrow. You may not see big changes yet, and that's normal. The wiring is being laid down.

3

Around month 5

The first unprompted moment.

One day — over homework, or in the car after school — your child uses the language on their own. Not because you reminded them. Because it's starting to be theirs. This is where you quietly shift from leading the practice to simply being beside them.

4

Months 6 to 18

It becomes how the family works.

The daily ritual settles into the rhythm of family life, like brushing teeth or bedtime stories. They no longer "use the trick" — they just think a little differently. And you've changed too: you're no longer managing their feelings for them, you're watching them manage their own.

5
WHAT COMES NEXT

Five more characters, a deeper level.

Once the first five are second nature, your child unlocks an advanced level of mental fitness — five new characters who tackle the trickier, older-kid challenges. The skill doesn't plateau; it grows as they do, meeting them right where they are.

6
FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE

A practice, not a finish line.

This is the part nobody talks about. The skill never really "completes" — like reading, it's something they keep getting better at, through their teens, their twenties, every hard season ahead. You keep practicing too, in your own way. It doesn't end. That's exactly the point.

What you're really giving them

You're not buying a course. You're giving your child a thinking habit they'll keep for a lifetime — and pass to their own kids.

Age 8

"That's Grumpy talking. I can try anyway."

Before the spelling test. Before football tryouts.

Age 14

"One bad text isn't my whole friendship."

The skill that protects them in the hardest social years.

Age 22

"I failed the interview. I'm not a failure."

The voice they bring to first jobs, first heartbreaks.

Age 40

"My thoughts aren't always the truth."

The quiet lifelong gift of knowing the difference.

5 minutes a day.

The smallest ritual with the biggest payoff.

Each morning · or each evening

One short story. One small skill.

A story-led lesson where your child meets a character, faces a thought, and practices the shift. It always ends — calmly — on a complete win.

During the day

A tiny "mission" they take into the world.

One small action: notice a thought, name a feeling, try one shift. The curriculum lives in the real world, not just in the lesson.

Over weeks. Over months.

The repetition that rewires.

Lasting habits aren't made overnight. They're made through small, gentle reps, repeated often — the kind kids will actually keep up. That's the whole science.

It's not another app.

Built on real frameworks.

Every story is grounded in evidence-based, age-appropriate practice — adapted carefully for ages 5–12.

Designed to end calmly. Every time.

Lessons end on completion — not cliffhangers. Children leave the lesson settled, never over-stimulated.

Safe by design.

No ads. No third-party trackers. No social features. Built to educators safeguarding standards.

A skill, not a sprint.

Practiced daily for months. Carried quietly for life. That's the deal — and it's the only one we believe in.

Designed for:

Families at home

Primary & independent schools

Home educators

Therapeutic settings

A word from the founder

Young Mind Masters exists to give children the inner toolkit most adults never learned.

"For twenty years I watched smart, capable, accomplished adults — across five continents — struggle with the exact same things. Self-doubt. Worry loops. Shame spirals. And I kept thinking: nobody ever gave them the tools."

Marijana spent twenty years in the corporate world across five continents, working alongside high-performers in every culture you can name. She kept seeing the same patterns — the same inner saboteurs running the show, regardless of country, language, or job title.

She trained as a PQ coach and a Functional Medicine health coach to work on those patterns with adults — and quickly realized something difficult and obvious: by the time most adults learn this language, the patterns have been running unchecked for thirty years. So she went upstream. She created Young Mind Masters, a program that turns mental fitness into memorable characters, stories, and tools that children ages 5 to 12 can actually use — so they learn to understand their patterns while their identity is still forming. Because Marijana believes children shouldn't have to spend their adult lives unlearning what we could help them understand today.

Founder

Marijana

Founder, Young Mind Masters

Certified PQ Coach Functional Medicine Health Coach 20 years · 5 continents

Honest answers to the questions we get most.

?
My child already sees a therapist. Is this appropriate?

Yes — and it's designed to complement, not replace, that work. Therapy is where deeper things get worked through with a professional; Young Mind Masters is the daily practice layer in between sessions — a shared language for noticing and naming thoughts that many therapists actively encourage families to build at home. It isn't treatment, and we never position it that way. If you'd like, share the program with your child's therapist first — we're happy to provide a one-page overview you can bring to a session.

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How is this different from mindfulness apps?

Mindfulness apps teach a child to calm down in the moment — useful, but it ends when the moment does. Young Mind Masters teaches what's underneath: to notice a thought, name it as a passing visitor rather than the truth, and choose what comes next. Calming down is something you do once. Knowing your thoughts aren't you is something you carry for life — and because it's a daily five-minute practice, the skill is already there before the hard moment arrives, not summoned during it.

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We're a school. What does implementation look like?

We provide a complete implementation pack: teacher handbook, lesson scripts, classroom posters, student workbooks, and pre/post measurement tools. Setup takes one staff training session (we provide this too). Most schools are live within a week of sign-off.

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What if my child doesn't engage with it?

That's common early on — often it's about timing, not the content. The lessons are short and audio-first, so there's no pressure to sit still or perform; many families find it lands better in a calm moment (the car, bedtime) than as a scheduled task. Skills like these build slowly, and a quiet start doesn't mean it isn't working — children often use the language weeks before parents hear it.

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My child is 4 — is that too young?

Probably, for independent use. The content is designed for ages 5–12, with the lower track best suited to ages 5–9. At age 4, a parent working through the materials together can work well. Reach out — we'll help you decide.

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How do I know if it's working?

The early wins are usually small and quiet: a child who doesn't spiral after a mistake, a bedtime that ends without the usual worry. Parents tend to notice the shifts before children can name them. The changes come slowly, then suddenly.

Our promise to you.

"I won't promise you a transformed child in 14 days. I'll promise you a daily ritual small enough that your child will actually keep doing it — and a skill that, given time, becomes how they think."

Marijana, Founder

Plant the habit now.
Let them carry it for the rest of their life.

Start with one free lesson. No credit card. No commitment. Just 5 minutes with your child — and the first step toward a different kind of thinking.

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Repetitio est mater studiorum.

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Repetitio est mater studiorum.

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