If you’ve ever sat outside your child’s bedroom after a meltdown, replaying it and wondering what you did wrong — we’ve been there too.

SteadyKid didn’t begin as a company. It began with our own daughter. She was six: bright, funny, kind. And some afternoons, a snapped crayon or the wrong-coloured cup could tip her into a storm she couldn’t climb out of — and honestly, neither could we.

The advice we found online was either “stay calm and set boundaries” (thanks) or written like a clinical manual. Nothing met her where she was: a small kid with big feelings and no words for them yet.

So we started making our own pages. A breathing exercise drawn as a balloon. A simple way to name what anger felt like in her body. A spot to scribble the feeling out instead of throwing it. We tested them at the kitchen table, kept what worked, and binned what didn’t.

Then we did the part we couldn’t do alone: we sat down with child therapists and rebuilt everything properly — around techniques they actually use, like naming emotions, co-regulation and gentle CBT-style reframing — made playful enough that a six-year-old wants to pick it up.

We’re a small, new team, and we’ll be honest with you: we’d rather earn your trust one workbook at a time than make big promises we can’t back up. That’s why the first one — our Anger Management workbook — is free. Try it with your child. See if it helps. Decide for yourself.