You are still you, somewhere underneath all of this.
Support. Not Advice
Free audio tools. 1-3 minutes each
For parents of young children.
Not parenting advice. Not a programme.
Just something for the moments when you need to come back to yourself.
You know this
It is not the day that breaks you. It is the hour before dinner.
Everyone is tired. Everyone needs something. And you are running on not much, and the part of you that you like least has started to show up.
You hear yourself — the sharpness, the impatience — and there is a gap between who you are and who you want to be.
You are running low. Everything costs a little more than you have.
Something hard just happened. You are finding your way back.
Everyone is tired. Everyone is hungry. And so are you.
You are wondering if you are getting this right.
That gap is not fixed by parenting advice. It is closed by coming back to yourself. Briefly, imperfectly, in the middle of the mess.
That is what these tools are for.
What this is
Short audio tools. For you. Not your children.
A Little Space for Parents is a library of guided audio tools — mostly 1-3 minutes — built for the real moments of parenting: the 4pm wall, the bedtime stretch, the moment after you have already snapped and want to find your way back.
We do not tell you how to handle your toddler's meltdown. We do not offer a parenting philosophy. We focus on you — helping you steady yourself so you can be the parent you already want to be.
Almost every tool starts with something physical: a hand on your chest, your feet on the floor, a warm cup in your hands. The body knows how to come back. The tools just remind it.
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Tell us how you are feeling right now. We will suggest the right tool.
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You do not need to explain it perfectly.
You can just say:
"This is a short audio thing for parents. It's not advice. It just helps when parenting feels like a lot.”
What this is
A Little Space for Parents was created by Jon Cheetham and Amy Kohut.
Jon is a full-time parent of two young boys, a former Cornell neuroscientist, and someone who left a senior academic career to be at home with his children. He built this from the inside of the experience.
Amy is an executive coach with more than 25 years of experience working with leaders under pressure — at Amazon, Cornell, and elsewhere.
Together, we took the tools that help people lead well under pressure, and made them usable in the middle of real life with small children.
Support, not advice.
What this is not
This is not a parenting method.
It will not tell you how to manage your children, your schedule, or your guilt.
It is not here to add to your load.
It is here for the person carrying it.
It is here to support the person doing the parenting.
A small promise
We are not promising transformation.
We are not promising calm children.
We are not promising that you will never lose your patience again.
We are offering something smaller and, we think, more honest:
one to three minutes to help you come back to yourself.