🌟 Resilient Kids: Stress & Relaxation Response

A Science-Backed Course to Help Kids Build Emotional Strength, Focus, and Calm

Overview:

Whether your child is a sensitive deep-thinker, a natural leader, or simply learning to handle the ups and downs of daily life, this course gives them something powerful: the ability to understand their own brain—and work with it.

Adapted from the Benson-Henry Institute’s Resilient Youth Program at Harvard Medical School, this engaging course was created by a Harvard-trained educator (Ed.M.), NYU-trained M.D., Juilliard resilience faculty, and Mom of two funny, kind, hard-working kids. (Yes—Harvard and Princeton.)

And while this course is backed by science, it’s built for real life—filled with fun, memorable tools that stick.

🧠 Why Now?

Research shows that the High School years are critical windows for brain development.

At this stage, the brain is laying down new neuronal connections and pruning back other connections rapidly. Healthy lifelong habits for how to respond to stress, solve problems, and bounce back from setbacks are powerful when taught early in life!

This course helps them build the foundation now—before habits of fear, avoidance, or overthinking settle in.

These tools stay with them for life, often showing up when they need them most.

💡 What Makes This Course Different

This is not just about being calm…

It’s brain literacy—so they understand what’s happening when they feel overwhelmed, frustrated, or stuck

✔ How the nervous system responds to pressure (fight, flight, freeze)
✔ How to activate the relaxation response, opposite of the stress response through fun, mind-body tools
✔ Practice fun skills like “Sip the T.E.A.” – a playful, powerful habit of noticing Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions
✔ How to build lasting mental routines that support confidence, curiosity, and calm

🎯 Common Questions Parents Ask

“My child doesn’t seem anxious—do they need this?”
Yes! This course isn’t about solving a problem—it’s about building strength and emotional agility before life gets more complicated.

“We’ve tried mindfulness. What’s new here?”
This isn’t just breathing. Kids learn to understand and influence their own brain states using research-based techniques that provide lifelong tools for thriving.

“Will my child actually use this?”
Yes—and sometimes when you least expect it. Former students still report using these tools as college students, as young adults, and some use it as parents themselves! 

These tools are powerful, because they’re simple and the earlier they are learned, the more automatic they can become!

🚀 What Students Take Away

• Fun and empowering brain habits that get them through setbacks in their mind, body, and space
  
  
• The ability to slow down and think clearly under pressure
  
  
• Real tools for calming down, solving problems, and feeling in control
  
  
• A sense of agency and power over their thoughts, emotions, and actions—boosting confidence
• Transformative insights about their own nervous system that will deepen throughout their life journey

🧒 Online Asynchronous Course For Kids in Grades K–8

• 6-session course
• Each session includes:
• 3-6 short videos and or audios
• PDF worksheets
  
  
• Grouped by grade: K-4, Gr 5-8, Gr 9-12
  
  
• E-mail support
• Based on research at Harvard Medical School and best practices for Learning Design at Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Workbook from Benson Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine

💬 What You’ll Hear After the Course:

“I used Sip the T.E.A. and got the problem right!”

 “I told my brain it was just getting ready to help me but I don’t need to fight, flight, or freeze right now, I just need to practice.”

 “I remembered to do my breathing to focus my brain for the test—even though I was nervous!”

“I’m feeling blah, so I’ll dance to get some endorphins.”

✨ Enroll Your Child Today

Give your child the tools to become a Brain Builder—

Agency comes with understanding what’s happening inside our brain so we can respond with confidence and grow stronger with every challenge.

Not therapy. Not fluff. 

Just the right tools at the right time, taught by a Mom-M.D., Harvard Trained Educator, who’s helped hundreds of young people succeed.