Personalized stories for real-life childhood challenges
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Choose what your child is working through: bedtime, screen time, big feelings, sharing, confidence and more. Maple Kids creates a personalized story around your child and includes a Parent Guide with conversation prompts and simple real-life practice.
Evidence-informed • Built for shared reading • Parent Guide included
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Personalized storybook + narrated audiobook + Parent Guide • Animated story video coming soon
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Start with the moment that feels hard right now.
Sleep & BedtimeEach one creates a story built around that exact challenge.
Screen Time & Digital Play
Food & Eating
Big Feelings
Social Skills
Listening & Cooperation
Responsibility & Organization
School & Learning
Independence & Courage
Repetitive Habits
Safety & Boundaries
Family & Life ChangesFive simple steps, repeated at your own pace, designed to support everyday learning, not to replace professional support.
The story begins with a situation your child recognizes from real life.
The story models an age-appropriate response, skill, routine or coping strategy.
The Parent Guide gives the adult simple questions and language to use while reading.
The family receives one small real-life activity connected to the story.
The story can be revisited so the idea and language become increasingly familiar.
Parent Guide included with every behavioral story
Every behavioral story explains what the story is trying to teach, what each important page is doing, what you can ask while reading, and one small way to practice the idea in real life.
Story page
“When the screen went quiet, Alex's chest went hot and fast. It felt like a shout waiting inside. Alex put one hand there and said, out loud, “All done.””
Illustrated with your child as the hero, in your family's language.
Parent Guide
What this page is doing
Ask
Words to repeat
Try it in real life
Included free with every finished story, in your panel.
Evidence-informed
Maple Kids uses evidence-informed principles from shared reading, child development, social-emotional learning, parent-child interaction and guided practice.
The American Academy of Pediatrics states that shared reading can support parent-child relationships and social-emotional, cognitive, language and literacy development.
Klass P, Miller-Fitzwater A, High PC, et al. “Literacy Promotion: An Essential Component of Primary Care Pediatric Practice.” Pediatrics. 2024;154(6):e2024069090.
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2024-069090Randomized research has found that interventions promoting parent-child shared reading and play can improve pathways associated with children's behavioral outcomes.
Weisleder A, Cates CB, Harding JF, et al. “Links between Shared Reading and Play, Parent Psychosocial Functioning, and Child Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial.” Journal of Pediatrics. 2019;213:187-195.e1.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.06.037A randomized study of four- to five-year-old children found that repeated shared reading of socially themed picture books was associated with improvements in empathy and prosocial behavior.
Chen H, Lyu D, Zhu L. “The effectiveness of social-themed picture book reading in promoting children's prosocial behavior.” Frontiers in Psychology. 2025.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1569925Structured emotion-themed picture-book activities have been associated with improvements in preschool children's emotion recognition, expression and regulation strategies.
Wang L, Cui R, Wan N, Hu W. “Reshaping the Ability–Strategy Link in Emotion Regulation: The Role of a Structured Picture-Book Intervention for Preschoolers.” Behavioral Sciences. 2025;15(8):1137.
DOI: 10.3390/bs15081137These studies examine shared reading and picture books in general. They did not test Maple Kids, and they are not a promise of results for any individual child.
Read the ResearchEvery sample starts with something a family was working through, and every one comes with its own Parent Guide.
Skill practiced: Taking turns and considering another child
Donya Shares and Makes Friends
Create a story for this challengeSkill practiced: Naming emotions and calming the body
Hessam and the Red Volcano Feeling
Create a story for this challengeSkill practiced: Using slow breathing to settle a busy body
Rosa and the Rainbow Breath
Create a story for this challengeSkill practiced: Riding out a big wave of anger with words
Ros and the Big Mad Wave
Create a story for this challengeSkill practiced: Building confidence around bedtime fears
Rosa and Lizzy's Moonlight Discovery
Create a story for this challengeSkill practiced: Understanding changing family roles and emotions
Leo and the New Family Steps
Create a story for this challengeA simple rhythm families can return to as often as they like, at their own pace.
Read the story together.
Use the Parent Guide prompts.
Try one small skill outside the story.
Return to the story across multiple reading sessions.
Celebrate effort and small progress.
Every child and every family is different. Maple Kids does not promise a timeline or a specific result after a set number of readings.
For a behavioral story we ask a little more than a name and a photo, so the story can match the real moment at home. It takes a couple of minutes, and there are no wrong answers. This is not an assessment or a diagnosis.
Preview 3 pages free • No card required
Every story is shaped around the child you know by heart.
Beyond everyday challenges, stories can be purely curious or purely joyful.
Every story comes with a narrated audiobook, so it can be read together at bedtime or listened to in the car.
A short audio guide for the adult, planned to accompany behavioral stories:
Maple Kids is an educational parenting tool designed to support shared learning and conversation. It is not medical, psychological, diagnostic or therapeutic care, and it does not replace qualified professional support when needed.
These topics are never offered as ordinary entertainment categories. They come with stronger adult guidance, age-sensitive wording, and a clear note about when to seek qualified support.
A parent guide explains what each page is gently teaching.
A parent guide explains what each page is gently teaching.
Simple prompts that turn reading into a conversation.
The photo is used to create the story, then removed.
Payments handled through encrypted, trusted providers.
Maple Kids is built and run in Canada.
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