Growing Up stories
Stories for the everyday work of growing up
Choose a developmental theme to create a personalised story that helps your child explore feelings, relationships, challenges and growing independence.
Six developmental themes
What would you like the story to help with?
Each theme is grounded in child-development research and recognised professional guidance, then applied through an age-appropriate personalised story.
Understanding Feelings
This theme helps children recognise, name and understand their emotions, notice how feelings show up in their bodies, and begin to understand how others may feel too.
Big Feelings & Self-Control
This theme helps children recognise when emotions feel too big, learn to pause, calm their bodies and minds, and choose positive ways to respond.
Friendship & Belonging
This theme helps children build positive relationships, learn how to join in and share, notice other people's needs, and feel more confident connecting with others.
Conflict & Problem-Solving
This theme helps children handle disagreements, express what they need, listen to others, find fair solutions and repair relationships when things go wrong.
Setbacks & Resilience
This theme helps children cope when things don't go as planned, work through disappointment, learn from mistakes and build confidence to try again.
Confidence & Independence
This theme helps children approach new experiences with growing confidence, speak up when they need something and take age-appropriate steps towards doing more for themselves.
Evidence-informed, with realistic expectations
Growing Up stories provide gentle models, language and conversation starters for ordinary childhood experiences. They are not assessments, therapy or guaranteed solutions. Each theme page explains the supporting evidence, age considerations and important limits.
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