When big feelings hit,
they need your voice.
Hushling guides children through emotion regulation exercises — in the voice they trust most. Yours.
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The reality
1 in 5 children struggle with their mental health.
Most parents don't know what to do.
How it works
Three steps. One calm child.
Record your voice
Spend 60 seconds recording yourself. Hushling clones your voice so every exercise sounds like you — warm, familiar, safe.
Child picks how they feel
Your child taps their Hushling character in the zone that matches how they feel — sad, calm, worried, or overwhelmed.
You guide them through it
They hear your voice walking them through a research-backed exercise — breathing, grounding, movement — matched to their feeling.
The app
Simple enough for a 4 year old.
Child picks how they feel
Guided exercise in your voice
They choose their Hushling
Weekly insights for parents
The science behind the voice
Your voice does something no app can replicate.
Science shows children's brains respond to a parent's voice in a way that's fundamentally different from any other sound.
fMRI studies show that children aged 7–8 process their mother's voice through unique neural pathways — activating regions of the brain associated with reward, emotion processing, and social bonding — that simply don't activate for an unfamiliar voice.
Abrams et al., Stanford University / PMC, 2016Built on evidence
Every exercise is grounded
in clinical research.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT interventions have been shown to improve emotion regulation and build resilience in children, giving them tools to recognise and manage difficult feelings.
Weisz et al., 2006 · Journal of Clinical Child PsychologyZones of Regulation
The framework used in primary schools across the UK. Hushling uses the same four zones — Blue, Green, Yellow, Red — so children connect what they learn at school with what they do at home.
Kuypers, 2011 · Adopted by thousands of UK primary schoolsBreathing & Polyvagal Theory
Slow, structured breathing directly activates the parasympathetic nervous system — calming the body's threat response. Each zone uses a clinically-validated breath pattern matched to that emotional state.
Porges, 2011 · Jerath et al., 2006Mindfulness for Children
School-based mindfulness programmes have been shown to improve emotion regulation in children aged 7–12. Hushling brings these techniques home, on demand, whenever a child needs them.
Springer Nature, 2023 · Systematic Review & Meta-AnalysisParental Co-Regulation
Children learn to regulate emotions through co-regulation with trusted adults. Teaching parents strategies is as effective as direct therapy — sometimes more so.
Lebowitz et al., Yale Child Study Center / NIH, 2019Rhythmic Entrainment
The pulsing animations in Hushling are timed to each zone's breath cycle — subliminally guiding the child's nervous system into the target rhythm before they consciously follow along.
Thaut, 2005 · Rhythm, Music and the BrainPricing
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"We built the app we needed."
My son Albie was struggling with big feelings. I searched for something that could help him — something calm, simple, and that felt like it came from us. Nothing existed. So we built it together.
Albie helped design the animals, test the exercises, and pick the colours. He's the reason every decision in this app asks: would a child actually use this?
— Nathan & Albie, co-founders of Hushling
The meltdown will happen again.
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