Five in-the-moment resets
5 Meltdown-Stopping Exercises
Five simple exercises you can use the second a meltdown starts, so you have something to do with your hands and your voice instead of freezing or yelling. Instant digital download, yours to keep.
- Instant digital download
- 5 exercises
- Therapist-built
- Yours forever
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- Instant digital access, yours forever
- Ages 3-10
- Therapist-built and evidence-based
- 90-day money-back guarantee
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What you get
What you get
- Five short exercises you can actually remember in the heat of a meltdown
- Plain, do-this-now steps, no theory to wade through first
- Something to say and something to do, so you stop feeling helpless
- Works right off your phone, or print it and stick it on the fridge
- Therapist-built and evidence-based, like everything from Trailies
- Instant access the moment you check out, yours to keep forever
For the moment it's already happening
When a meltdown hits, most of us go blank. You know you're supposed to stay calm, but in the moment you can't think of a single useful thing to do. That's exactly what these five exercises are for. They give you a simple move to reach for so you're not improvising while everyone is falling apart.
Each one is short and specific. No long explanations, no setup, no new vocabulary your kid has to learn first. Just a small, doable thing that helps a child move through the wave of a big feeling instead of getting stuck in it. You do it with them, in the moment, and you both come out the other side.
It's a digital download, so you can have it open on your phone tonight. Read it once, keep it handy, and pull it up the next time things start to go sideways.
Five small moves, so you always have something to reach for.
How it works
Simple enough to use tonight
Reach for a card
The moment a feeling hits, you grab the card that fits instead of scrambling for the right words.
Read the script
Every card is written word-for-word by age, so you just read it out loud. No prep, no training.
Watch them settle
Your kid picks a calm-down strategy they actually like, and the storm passes faster than it used to.
The people behind it
Built by people who needed this too
Trailies isn't a worksheet from a stranger. It's the script two people wished they'd had, made with the clinicians who know what actually works.
I spent years watching good parents freeze at the exact moment their kid needed words. So we wrote the words down.
Nobody handed my parents a script. I built the one I wish they'd had, so the next kid gets the talk instead of the silence.
Every deck and script is built with child psychologists and grounded in PCIT, CBT, and 200+ studies.
What parents say
In their own words
I keep these on the kitchen counter and reach for one the second things start to go sideways. It has genuinely changed our mornings.
My kids actually ask for the cards now when they're upset. I use them too. Honestly? It changed the room.
I recommend this to every family I work with. Parents need something they can grab when everyone's falling apart. This is that thing.
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Everything you get today
5 Meltdown-Stopping Exercises
- Five short exercises you can actually remember in the heat of a meltdown
- Plain, do-this-now steps, no theory to wade through first
- Something to say and something to do, so you stop feeling helpless
- Works right off your phone, or print it and stick it on the fridge
- Therapist-built and evidence-based, like everything from Trailies
- Instant access the moment you check out, yours to keep forever
The 90-day money-back guarantee
Try it with your family, risk-free. If it's not right for you, email us within 90 days and we'll make it right, no hoops and no hard feelings. The only risk is another week of winging it.
Every Talk you buy, another family gets one free.
3,200+ Talks gifted so far through the Trailies Forward Fund. No strings — just one parent making sure another has the words too.
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