Prepare your child for everyday challenges
Prepare your child for everyday challenges
Tears at drop off, separation anxiety, unfairly labelled "the naughty kid"….
Seeing your child struggle is heartbreaking.
Dr Kathryn Hackman knows that feeling. Developed with a leading paediatrician, paediatric occupational therapist and psychologist, the Courageous Kids app was specifically designed for 2-6 year olds to build confidence and resilience. Courageous Kids empowers you to explain and reflect on events with your child.
Tears at drop off, separation anxiety, unfairly labelled “the naughty kid”…. Seeing your child struggle is heartbreaking.
Dr Kathryn Hackman knows that feeling. Developed with a leading paediatrician, paediatric occupational therapist and psychologist, the Courageous Kids app was specifically designed for 2-6-year-olds to build confidence and resilience. Courageous Kids empowers you to explain and reflect on events with your child.
How our App Works
Courageous Kids familiarises children with a multitude of social situations through personalised stories. You can choose an illustrated avatar to represent your child and their key grown-ups (parents, teachers, doctors etc).
This will uniquely personalise each page of the story. And for further customisation, you can upload your own photographs to replace our illustrations.
How our App Works
Courageous Kids familiarises children with a multitude of social situations through personalised stories. You can choose an illustrated avatar to represent your child and their key grown-ups (parents, teachers, doctors etc).
This will uniquely personalise each page of the story. And for further customization, you can upload your own photographs to replace our illustrations.
Discover the Courageous Kids App
Developed with a leading psychologist
Personalised Stories
All Courageous Kids’ stories have been carefully created to help parents acknowledge, and allow children to reflect on their emotions. Our specially customised children’s storybook app is the perfect tool for the whole family.
Discover the Courageous Kids App
Developed with a leading psychologist
Personalised Stories
All Courageous Kids’ stories have been carefully created to help parents acknowledge, and allow children to reflect on their emotions. Our specially customised children’s storybook app is the perfect tool for the whole family.
Fun games to teach social rules
Play Silly or Sensible?
Social expectations are often assumed, not explained.
Play our Silly or Sensible? games to help teach children the rules we adults take for granted. Our games present scenes in numerous social situations.
Fun games to teach social rules
Play Silly or Sensible?
Social expectations are often assumed, not explained.
Play our Silly or Sensible? games to help teach children the rules we adults take for granted. Our games present scenes in numerous social situations.
Developed with an Occupational Therapist
Create Visual Schedules
Empower your child by jointly planning their day. Colourful icons enable children to follow their schedule, fostering independence. A visual plan helps many children feel calmer as knowing what comes next alleviates anxiety and creates a sense of security.
Developed with an Occupational Therapist
Create Visual Schedules
Empower your child by jointly planning their day. Colourful icons enable children to follow their schedule, fostering independence. A visual plan helps many children feel calmer as knowing what comes next alleviates anxiety and creates a sense of security.
Our Story
Courageous Kids is a passion project inspired by my two young children. I started writing social stories to present everyday situations to them in a relatable and familiar way. The idea was to help enable them to approach the world and its challenges, with confidence. These stories were so effective that friends began requesting I write stories for their children too. I realised that all children face similar emotional issues. And that a little bit of preparation has a profound impact.
My mission is to empower parents and carers with an engaging and fun tool to help them explain social situations and the “rules” we take for granted to their children. Through extensive collaboration with a child psychologist, speech pathologist, occupational therapist and early educators, Courageous Kids was born.
Our Story
Courageous Kids is a passion project inspired by my two young children. I started writing social stories to present everyday situations to them in a relatable and familiar way, enabling them to approach the world, and its challenges, with confidence. These stories were so effective that friends started requesting I write for their children too. I realised that all children face similar emotional issues and that a little bit of preparation has a profound impact.
My mission is to empower parents and carers with an engaging and fun tool to help them explain social situations and the “rules” we take for granted to their children. Through extensive collaboration with a child psychologist, speech pathologist, occupational therapist and early educators, Courageous Kids was born.
Our Mission
Our Reviews
This app is awesome. My kids love the stories and so do I! A great way to prepare them for daily events
'More and more we educators see children become anxious and concerned when faced with situations they are unfamiliar with. Having a social story style tool, that allows you to customise to support an individual child, is very useful. Its use is a great way to give children a sense of predictability and confidence to manage new and different situations.
My daughter felt reassured and had fun understanding what was going to happen tomorrow! A great App!