Practice tonight’s ride home
Tell us a little about your kid and what happened. Then practice what you’d say, before it counts.
Your first ride is free. No sign-up.
Practice before you start the car or after you park, never while driving.
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The mission is to help youth sports parents with the conversation on the ride home after games. You’ll play the parent: pick a night below and say what you’d say.
Aaron Lewis, CMPC
Tell us about your kid
Pick a night
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Leave your email and we’ll send you the full version, free for 14 days. Practice with a kid like yours, as many nights as you want, and see what you’re getting better at.
Only emails about your two free weeks, and one note when it opens.
Setting up your ride…
Before he gets in the car: how are you right now?
Breathe in…
What would you say?
For the real ride home
When’s the next game? We’ll email you this that day.
What you did well
One thing to try next time
See all the notes
How to read this, and why it matters
Opens him up means the line made it easier for him to keep talking to you. Shuts him down means it made him more likely to go quiet. Each bar shows where one of your lines landed.
Why it matters: when he does the talking, he makes sense of the game himself, and he keeps coming back to you to talk. Lines that fix it, judge it, or cheer him up fast usually end the talk, even when they come from love and even when they make us feel better.
Every line, in order
with why each one tends to land, and the research behind it.
Included with The Ride Home, along with practicing it again.
Five quick taps for Aaron
Did the kid sound like a real kid?
Did the notes fit what you know works?
Would you use this to have better rides home after games?
Would you point families to this?
The free ride is one night. The full version is a kid like yours, as many nights as you want, and you see what you’re getting better at. What would a parent who really needs this be willing to pay for it, one time?
Want the full version, free for 14 days?
Leave your email and your link comes right away. Only emails about your two free weeks, and one note when it opens.
Your ride goes along with it, so Aaron can see what you mean.
Thank you. That goes straight to Aaron.
Was this ride useful?
Thanks.
The free ride is one night. The full version is a kid like yours, as many nights as you want, and you see what you’re getting better at. What would a parent who really needs this be willing to pay for it, one time?
Thank you. That helps Aaron set the price.
Sent. Thank you. This is how it gets better.
Aaron would love your read
What worked, what didn’t, and what a parent who needs this would pay.
Did this help on a real ride home?
Tell us what happened in one sentence. For example: “I let her go first and she actually talked about the game.”
Thank you. Aaron reads every one.
Put The Ride Home on your home screen, so it opens like an app on game nights.
Keep practicing, until you don’t need to.
- Unlimited practice rides, any night, with your own kid’s details
- More than a dozen common nights for your kid’s sport, or describe your own
- Full notes on every line you try, not just the highlights
- Three short lessons: what to notice at the game, how to ask in the car, and how to leave what’s next to them
- Help that steps back as you get better, so you need it less
- A free second seat for whoever else drives your kid home
“I was genuinely so impressed (and shocked!) at how it adapted the examples and language based on the specific sport I selected.”
$149 one time
Price at openingThe first-access list hears it first.
The lessons and hard moments are written for baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, football, hockey, tennis, golf, lacrosse and swimming, not yet for your kid’s sport. Practice rides work for any sport.
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The kid in this practice is played by AI, from what you told us about yours. The ideas you can tap are written by the AI for that moment, each one an example of a kind of line the site teaches. The notes on how each kind tends to land were written ahead of time from sport psychology research; the AI picks which note fits and adds one sentence about your ride. It’s practice, not advice. It can get things wrong, and you know your kid best. Nothing you type is saved unless you choose to share a ride with Aaron. Terms