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I Can Make Good Choices

Name: I Can Make Good Choices
Availability: InStock
Author: Wanderly

Create a story designed to guide your child to work on behavior skills. Pick a behavior to work on, specify replacement behaviors, and add in special details to set them up for success in this personalized story.

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About This Story

What your child will experience

Your child steps into a first-person story where they learn about a specific behavior—one you've chosen together. Across eight pages, they'll explore what the behavior means, when and where to use it, how to recognize the right moment, and step-by-step instructions for success. They'll also reflect on their feelings, practice memory strategies, and learn what to do when things feel hard.

Why this approach helps

This structure mirrors social story and behavior-support frameworks that break skills into clear, manageable steps. By personalizing the behavior, setting, and support team, the story becomes a rehearsal space—building familiarity and confidence before real-world moments arrive. Repetition over time helps children internalize routines and cues.

What to notice as a parent

Pay attention to how your child talks about feelings or struggles within the story. Their responses offer clues about where they might need extra reassurance or practice in daily life. If they seem curious or hesitant about a step, that's a natural opening for a gentle conversation or role-play together.

Personalize This Story

Make this story truly special by adding these details:

✓What behavior will the main character learn about?
✓Who can help the main character with this behavior?

Story Questions

Questions your child may be asked while creating this story:

Where does the main character need to use the behavior?
What cues help the main character know when to practice the behavior?
What is a helpful strategy the main character can use?
What can the main character do if they're having trouble with this behavior?

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“As an lifelong educator, I give this app an enthusiastic 5 stars+. With opportunity to choose and name characters, type of story and plot ... what could be more creative? What could be a more productive use of screen time? I love that this app was created and is carefully monitored by a Mom of young kids. She also happens to have technical/AI chops ... she was a Google Product Manager in their Education Products sector. The graphics are quite lovely, the story lines are fun and age-appropriate.”

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— Bill

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