Helping Kids Feel Safe, Confident, and Ready Before They Need To Be

Balbina the Bear Learns to Swim is more than a story; it helps children build emotional readiness around water safety through engaging lessons and real-life tools

Stories, tools, and experiences that grow with them
This Isn't Just a Book

It's How Kids Learn to Navigate Life

Helping children understand emotions, build confidence, and make better choices through stories, tools, and real-world support

HOPEiDONT uses stories as the starting point but what follows is where real growth happens

• Story-based learning
• Built-in lessons & activities
• Emotional + real-world skill development
• Tools for parents, educators, and professionals

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Stories & Emotional Learning Support That Grows With Your Child

Start with a single story or build your collection with our exclusive summer offer designed to support meaningful conversations, confidence, and emotional growth.

  • Start with One HOPEiDONT Book

    Discover engaging stories that help children navigate emotions, build confidence, and feel more prepared for life’s experiences through relatable characters and meaningful conversations.

    Perfect for families, gifts, classrooms, and everyday emotional support.

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  • Summer Book Bundle Offer

    Purchase both Slime Time Fun and Balbina Learns to Swim books and receive 50% OFF our upcoming book Budger's Brave Dentist Day as part of our exclusive summer promotion.

    A simple way to continue building your child’s emotional learning library while unlocking future stories and experiences.

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How it Helps

What This Means for Your Child

  • Understand and express emotions
  • Feel confident in new or overwhelming situations
  • Build empathy and connection with others
  • Make better choices and think through challenges
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Paths Forward

Start Where It Makes Sense For You

Whether you’re looking for books for your family, classroom support, or larger community initiatives, HOPEiDONT offers meaningful emotional learning resources designed to grow with children through every stage of life and learning.

Reviews

What SEL Experts and Parents Have to Say

I love that HOPEiDONT has a wide range of emotions to help children understand facial features with the emotions better. Specifically, the HOPEiDONT squishies make it easy for children to squeeze while also talking about the emotions so they’ve had multiple uses for them. The children in office are always grabbing at my HOPEiDONT book because of its colorful pictures which leads to great conversation around emotions. The HOPEiDONT characters have worked better to the older kids because they are curious about the colorful characters I keep in the office

- Stephanie Mayhew, Play Therapist

As a grandparent of four grandchildren under the age of five, and a substitute teacher, this resource is valuable in helping children understand their emotions. In a society where emotions and feelings can be chaotic and misunderstood, having HOPEiDONT exhibit various emotions with color and how to use the emotions in a positive way will assist children to handle feelings in a balanced way. The earlier children can understand and react appropriately to their feelings/emotions the healthier their mental state will be. The interactive activities enable the child to learn using visual, auditory, read/write and kinesthetic skills

- Carolyn Hyle, Grandma, Teacher, and Medical Professional

I am a third-grade teacher in our public education school system. As a teacher, my primary goal before focusing on implementing reading, writing, math, and core academic subjects is to meet the students where they are. Students are not able to participate if they're not emotionally ready. This is when HOPEiDONT would benefit our students, as it enables them to become more socially and emotionally aware of their feelings and emotions simply and effectively. It enables students to engage with books, lessons, and songs about emotions and feelings, helping them reach a point where they can succeed in core academics while also providing teachers with the necessary tools to support their students

- Madelyn Klus, 3rd Grade Teacher