Calm-down skills for big feelings *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.
Notice. Name. Choose.
A simple, repeatable skill — built on how the brain actually works.
Naming creates distance. Distance creates choice.
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. Picture-book stories your child will actually request. Conversation cards 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 — for parent and child to listen together, not one more thing to manage
- Meet the Grumpies — a shared language for big feelings
- Printables to practice between lessons: calm cards, an emotion decoder, a family challenge
Start the first lesson - free
For schools
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 facilitator manual. Real lessons, real scripts, real measurement instruments — packaged so your administration sees outcomes and your teachers feel supported, not buried.
- 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
- Comic-style classroom posters and printable workbooks
- Volume licensing & teacher onboarding including
See if your school qualifies
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 maths. 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.
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 them to read." We won't promise results in 14 days. Anything you saw 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.
Weeks 1-10
You both meet the characters.
months 3-4
Practicing in calm moments.
Around month 5
The first unprompted moment.
Months 6 to 18
It becomes how the family works.
Five more characters, a deeper level.
A practice, not a finish line.
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.
It's the thing schools quietly recommend to parents.
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 screen settled, never over-stimulated.
Safe by design.
No ads. No third-party trackers. No social features. Built to school 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 got.
"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 at once: by the time most adults learn this language, the patterns have been running unchecked for thirty years. So she translated the same tools into characters, stories, and rituals a six-year-old can actually use.
Marijana
Founder, Young Mind Masters
Honest answers to the questions we get most.
My child already sees a therapist. Is this appropriate?
We won't pretend to know exactly — every child is different, and consistency matters more than anything. This is a skill, not a switch. It builds gradually with daily practice, the way reading does. What we promise isn't a date; it's a ritual gentle enough that you'll actually keep at it long enough for change to take root.
What if my child doesn't engage with it?
Most children who disengage early do so because the timing isn't right, not because the content doesn't work. We include a "Finding the Right Moment" guide with every subscription. And if it still isn't a fit within 30 days, we'll refund you — no hoops.
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.
My child is 4 — is that too young?
Probably, for independent use. The content is designed for ages 5–11, with the lower track best suited to ages 5–8. At age 4, a parent working through the materials together can work well. Reach out — we'll help you decide.
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.
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 spiral. The parent dashboard tracks which thought patterns appear most and how they shift over time. The changes come slowly, then suddenly.
Our promise to you.
"I won't promise you a transformed child in two weeks. I'll promise you a daily ritual small enough that your child will actually keep doing it — and a skill that, given time, becomes simply 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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