The hard parts of the day, in plain words.
Short pages about the moments that are actually difficult with a two to five year old. No jargon and no lecturing, and every one of them ends at something free you can print.
Start with whatever is hardest right now
Most of these take about five minutes to read, which is roughly the amount of time anybody has.
Helping a toddler with big feelings
What tends to help in the middle of a meltdown, and what to say afterwards, when the words actually go in.
Read thisBedtimeA bedtime routine, age by age
What a wind-down looks like at two, three, four and five, and what to do the week it all falls apart.
Read thisBedtimeWhen your toddler will not stay in bed
The boring walk back, the one more thing loop, what to do when the reason is fear, and what to do at two in the morning.
Read thisBig changesGetting ready for the first day of preschool
The week before, the goodbye at the door, and why the first two weeks are often lovely at school and hard at home.
Read thisPatienceHelping a toddler learn to wait
Why waiting is genuinely hard when you are three, and five small ways to make any wait feel smaller.
Read thisAt homeMaking a calm down corner
A small, soft, unpunishing corner of one room, what to put in it, and how to introduce it so it never feels like a time out.
Read thisSix things you can print today.
Made to be stuck on a wall at your child’s eye level, or cut out and kept in the car. Print them on plain paper, they are meant to get sticky.
Sixteen songs, playable right here.
Nothing to download and no account to make. The quiet ones are gathered separately, because at seven in the evening you do not want to be scrolling past the loud ones.
Plumble’s World is a calm, gentle media experience for children ages 2 to 5, designed to create opportunities for connection and conversation. It is not a therapeutic, clinical, or intervention program, and nothing here replaces advice from your pediatrician or your child’s teacher.