For Parents & Caregivers

Tools for understanding and supporting sticky brain moments

Find practical, neurodiversity-affirming resources for ADHD, anxiety, executive functioning, emotional regulation, sleep, friendship, grief, autism-related questions, and the moments when behavior is trying to communicate something.

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ADHD and executive functioning

Tools for homework, routines, attention, impulsivity, task initiation, organization, and helping kids understand how their brains work without shame.

$17

A Whole-Child Approach to ADHD: Young Kids Edition

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A parent-friendly ADHD guide for young children ages 4–10. Covers lifestyle supports, sleep, nutrition, movement, environment, parent training, medication conversations, pediatrician questions, school supports, and a first 30-day plan for building ADHD support without overwhelm.

$17

A Whole-Child Approach to ADHD: Tweens & Teens Edition

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A parent-friendly ADHD guide for tweens and teens ages 11–17. Covers sleep, food, movement, phones, study setup, school supports, therapy/coaching, medication conversations, co-occurring concerns, pediatrician questions, and a first 30-day plan with teen buy-in.

$3

ADHD vs. Anxiety Parent Packet

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A parent-friendly guide for understanding the overlap between ADHD and anxiety in children. Helps caregivers compare attention, avoidance, restlessness, emotional intensity, sleep, school stress, reassurance-seeking, and behavior patterns before talking with a provider.

$9

Power Up Your Brain: ADHD Playbook for Kids

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A kid-friendly ADHD workbook that helps children understand attention, energy, big feelings, impulsivity, task-starting, and follow-through through a strengths-based brain lens. Includes reflection prompts, coping tools, executive functioning skills, and practical strategies for everyday life.

$9

My Brain Toolkit: Executive Functioning Skills for Kids

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A kid-friendly executive functioning workbook for ages 7–10. Helps children practice task initiation, time management, planning, working memory, emotional regulation, self-monitoring, and organization through simple brain tools, examples, and reflection pages.

$9

Brain in Gear: Executive Functioning Skills for Middle School

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A middle-school executive functioning workbook for ages 11–13. Helps students build skills for task initiation, time management, planning, working memory, emotional regulation, self-monitoring, and organization using practical tools and reflection pages.

$3

Pediatric ADHD Doctor Visit Preparation Packet

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A parent-friendly ADHD appointment prep packet for pediatric visits. Helps caregivers organize concerns, school examples, symptoms, strengths, questions, and next steps before talking with a pediatrician, primary care provider, therapist, psychologist, or school team.

Anxiety and sticky thoughts

Resources for worry, panic, reassurance-seeking, control, avoidance, sickness fears, social stress, and thoughts that feel hard to unstick.

$10

Maya and the Worry Storm

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A child-friendly story workbook for kids with sick worries, throw-up fears, or anxiety when someone nearby does not feel well. Helps children spot “what if” thoughts, fact-check worry stories, calm their body, and practice staying present when illness fears feel loud.

$7

When Worry Gets Loud: Little Sticky Brain Edition

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A kid-friendly worry workbook for helping younger children understand anxious thoughts, name worry patterns, and practice brave coping skills. Includes simple CBT-based activities, body clues, calming tools, and gentle practice pages for when worry gets loud.

$7

When Worry Gets Loud: Teen Edition

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A teen-friendly worry workbook for understanding anxious thoughts, body cues, avoidance, reassurance-seeking, and “what if” loops. Includes CBT-informed reflection pages, coping tools, brave practice prompts, and flexible thinking strategies.

$7

When Panic Hits: Little Sticky Brain Edition

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A kid-friendly panic and big-feelings workbook for helping younger children understand what happens in their body when panic hits. Includes simple brain-body education, calming tools, coping practice, and gentle activities for building confidence during scary body sensations.

$7

When Panic Hits: Teen Sticky Brain Edition

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A teen-friendly panic workbook that helps adolescents understand panic as a brain-body alarm, recognize body cues, reduce fear of sensations, and practice coping tools for riding out panic with more confidence and less shame.

$13

When Anxiety Shows Up as Control

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A teen and parent toolkit for understanding how anxiety can show up as control, rigidity, avoidance, reassurance-seeking, irritability, or “bossy” behavior. Includes psychoeducation, reflection prompts, coping tools, and parent guidance for responding with both warmth and limits.

Big feelings and behavior

Tools for meltdowns, shutdowns, anger, demand avoidance, fast brains, body clues, emotion naming, and helping kids build regulation skills without shame.

$5

Jalen and the Big Feelings

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A Storytime CBT workpacket for kids who get overwhelmed by frustration, thought troubles, and big reactions. Uses Jalen’s story to teach thought checks, the STOP skill, the 5-minute bargain, naming feelings, 4-7-8 breathing, and choosing a calmer response.

$11

Feeling Faces: Emotions Work Packet for Kids

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A neurodiversity-affirming emotions work packet for kids ages 4–8. Helps children notice, name, and explore feelings through facial expressions, body clues, drawing, caregiver prompts, and simple emotional awareness activities.

$3

STOP · NAME · BREATHE Mini Packet

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A simple emotional regulation mini packet for kids ages 4–12. Teaches children to pause, name the feeling, and breathe or count before reacting. Includes a parent guide, child worksheet, practice page, and educator/clinician tip sheet.

$7

Understanding Your Brain Under Stress

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A kid-friendly guide for ages 8–12 on fight, flight, and freeze. Helps children understand the brain’s alarm system, why the body reacts before the thinking brain catches up, and how to use tools like belly breathing, grounding, movement, kind self-talk, small steps, and asking for help.

$12

I Don’t Want To, You Can’t Make Me

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A story + skills workbook for kids whose brains say “NO!” before they even have time to think. Through Jonah’s story, kids learn about Rebel Brain moments, task initiation, choice-based coping, and low-demand strategies that help them work with their brains instead of fighting them.

$12

Oops! My Brain Is Fast

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A story + skills workbook for kids who wiggle, zoom, blurt, bounce, and struggle to slow their brains down. Through Ngozi’s story, kids learn movement-friendly tools, impulse-control strategies, and strengths-based ways to understand their fast, creative, energetic brains.

$7

Self-Soothe Skills: A Sense-sational Soothing Guide

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A kid-friendly sensory coping packet for building self-soothe skills using the five senses. Children create a pocket booklet, brainstorm calming ideas for see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, and build a real-life Soothe Kit for big feelings.

$12

Big Feelings, Big Skills

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A 2-in-1 emotional regulation toolkit for kids ages 6–11 and the grown-ups who support them. Covers anxious brain, rebel brain, big feelings, calm-down skills, STOP Name Breathe, task plans, caregiver coaching, and practical tools for reducing overwhelm.

Autism and neurodiversity-affirming support

Resources for evaluation questions, sensory needs, transitions, social differences, flexibility, regulation, and supporting the whole child without trying to force them into a box.

$5

Should I Have My Child Evaluated for Autism?

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A parent guide to early autism signs, next steps, and what an autism evaluation actually involves. Covers developmental milestones, social communication, sensory and repetitive behaviors, regression, evaluation components, who can diagnose autism, and what parents should know.

$12

A Whole-Child Approach to Autism: Young Kids Edition

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A parent handout for children ages 4–10 newly identified as autistic. Covers whole-child autism support, sensory-based feeding, sleep, routines, supplements, environment, therapy, school supports, accommodations, and choosing neurodiversity-affirming care.

$12

A Whole-Child Approach to Autism: Tweens & Teens Edition

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A parent handout for tweens and teens ages 11–17 recently identified as autistic. Covers identity, masking, burnout, sensory needs, food, sleep, screens, school supports, therapy, mental health, autonomy, supplements, and choosing affirming care.

$19

Kasiah and Her Big Pattern Brain

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A story + skills workbook for smart, deeply feeling kids whose brains notice everything and feel everything big. Through Kasiah’s story, kids learn how to ride feeling storms, talk back to thought bots, stretch rigid thinking, and understand their powerful pattern-finding brains.

$12

Some People Don’t Get It, and That’s Okay

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A story + skills workbook for kids who miss social cues, feel confused by people, or worry about fitting in. Through Kasiah’s story, kids learn emotion clues, social decoding skills, self-advocacy, and neurodiversity-affirming ways to build confidence with others.

$7

Understanding Your Brain Under Stress

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A kid-friendly guide for ages 8–12 on fight, flight, and freeze. Helps children understand the brain’s alarm system, why the body reacts before the thinking brain catches up, and how to use tools like belly breathing, grounding, movement, kind self-talk, small steps, and asking for help.

$12

The Sticky Brain and the Great Unsticking Experiment

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A story + skills workbook for kids whose brains get stuck on a thought, topic, or idea and need help learning how to gently shift, reset, and get unstuck. Through Nneka’s story, kids learn flexible thinking, brain reset tools, and how to work with their Sticky Brain, not against it.

$12

The Super Scanner Trap

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A story + skills workbook for kids whose brains scan for danger, mistakes, judgment, or anything that could go wrong. Through Chidi’s story, kids learn how anxiety grows, why avoidance can keep worry stuck, and how to practice brave, flexible coping skills.

$4

Figuring Out Friendship Stuff

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A short social skills workpacket for kids who feel left out, confused by friendships, or unsure how to join in. Uses Nia’s story to teach naming what’s happening, walking away with dignity, using a calm firm voice, telling a trusted adult, shield thoughts, conversation starters, and friend strengths.

Sleep, toileting, and body-based stress

Tools for bedtime struggles, sleep routines, sleepwalking, toileting difficulties, needle fear, body anxiety, and helping kids feel safer in their bodies.

$7

My Sleepy Time Plan

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A kid-friendly bedtime toolkit with calming skills for when sleep feels hard. Includes Dragon Breath, Melting Snowman, Magic Carpet Ride, Soft Landing Words, Brave Ask, a sample bedtime routine, build-your-own wind-down plan, and parent guidance.

$7

Helping Your Child Wind Down for Sleep

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A parent and caregiver guide for helping children ages 3–12 wind down for sleep. Covers bedtime anxiety, screen-free wind-downs, connection and reassurance, body relaxation, sleep cues, bedtime resistance, worry time, sleep needs by age, and when to seek support.

$5

Sleepwalking Guide

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A parent-friendly sleepwalking guide for kids and families. Explains what sleepwalking is, why it happens during deep sleep, common triggers, safety steps, bedtime routines, box breathing, scheduled awakenings, when to talk to a doctor, and how to reassure an anxious child.

$7

Understanding Toileting Difficulties

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A parent and caregiver guide for understanding toileting difficulties through the body-brain connection. Covers interoception, anxiety, sensory sensitivities, ADHD, autism, executive functioning, motor planning, bathroom accommodations, reinforcement, and when to seek support.

$6

Needle & Blood Draw Coping Guide

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A step-by-step coping guide for needle fear, blood draws, injections, and vasovagal fainting. Covers what happens in the body, applied tension, box breathing, grounding, coping statements, distraction, self-advocacy scripts, cold/vibration tools, numbing cream, and after-care reflection.

$5

Tools for Quiet Times

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A coping skills packet for kids ages 6–10 whose worries or tricky thoughts get louder during bedtime, quiet time, transitions, or waiting. Teaches calming tools like bubble breaths, color scan, animal body game, thought switch, and ABC brain game.

$7

Self-Soothe Skills: A Sense-sational Soothing Guide

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A kid-friendly sensory coping packet for building self-soothe skills using the five senses. Children create a pocket booklet, brainstorm calming ideas for see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, and build a real-life Soothe Kit for big feelings.

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When Sleep Will Not Come

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A free health psychology sleep handout for adults whose brain or body will not settle at night. Includes a wind-down protocol, ABC game, worry window, body settling tools, emotional containment, sleep hygiene audit, bad night plan, and sleep setup checklist.

Friendship, social stress, and grief

Resources for peer struggles, feeling left out, social stress, friendship skills, big goodbyes, grief, loss, and helping kids feel less alone in hard moments.

$7

Friendship Toolkit: Kids Edition

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A kid-friendly friendship and social skills toolkit for learning feelings, body clues, kind vs. unkind behavior, friendship safety, speaking up, asking for help, and trusting when something feels yucky. Includes scripts, practice scenarios, and a friendship check-in.

$9

Friendship Toolkit, Tween Edition

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A tween-friendly social skills and friendship guide for navigating real friendships, group chats, crushes, boundaries, social discomfort, and subtle meanness. Helps tweens read patterns, trust their feelings, speak up, and know when to get adult support.

$9

Friendship Toolkit, Teen Edition

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A teen-friendly friendship and relationship toolkit for reading people, trusting your feelings, navigating group chats, digital life, romantic pressure, boundaries, gaslighting, covert meanness, and knowing when to bring in trusted adult support.

$9

Big Goodbyes: A Grief Workbook for Kids

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A gentle grief workbook for kids after the death of someone they love, including a person or beloved pet. Helps children understand grief, name feelings, notice body changes, ask hard questions, remember their person, and find small ways forward with support.

$9

Big Goodbyes: Tween Edition

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A grief workbook for tweens ages 10–14 after the death of someone they love. Covers grief waves, big feelings, body and brain changes, school, social media, different kinds of death, awkward things people say, remembering, and finding support.

$12

Big Goodbyes: Teen Edition

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An honest grief workbook for teens after the death of someone they love. Covers modern grief science, feelings, brain and body changes, school, social media, identity grief, family grief, suicide, overdose, risky coping, memory, support, and moving with grief.

$7

Social Stress

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A kid/teen and young adult-friendly workbook for understanding social stress, friendship worries, rejection sensitivity, overthinking, and awkward moments. Includes reflection prompts, coping tools, flexible thinking practice, and support for handling social situations with more confidence.

$4

Figuring Out Friendship Stuff

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A short social skills workpacket for kids who feel left out, confused by friendships, or unsure how to join in. Uses Nia’s story to teach naming what’s happening, walking away with dignity, using a calm firm voice, telling a trusted adult, shield thoughts, conversation starters, and friend strengths.

$12

When the Scanner Stays On

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A culturally responsive story + skills workbook for kids whose brains feel like they have to stay careful, alert, or “on” all the time. Through Chidi’s story, kids explore anxiety, safety, race-based stress, body signals, and tools for caring for themselves in the real world.

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