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.
Thanks for checking out The Ride Home
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
Practice what you’ll say, before you say it.
You play yourself. An AI plays your kid. Afterward you’ll see how each thing you said tends to land.
Private: nothing you type goes to whoever sent this.
Free, with no sign-up. First, make the kid like yours: sport, son or daughter, and age.
Practice before you start the car or after you park, never while driving.
Tell us about your kid
Pick a night
Short on time right now?
Leave your email and we’ll send you the full version, free for a week. Practice with a kid like yours, as many nights as you want, and see what you’re getting better at.
Only emails about your free week, 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
Practice the next one. Every night, any kid, with the full notes on every line.
Not helping? Full refund within 30 days. See what you get
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?
What’s the main reason?
Would you point families to this?
Want the full version, free for a week?
Leave your email and your link comes right away. Only emails about your free week, 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.
Sent. Thank you. This is how it gets better.
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.
The full version is $49 a season or $89 a year. See the passes
Six hills, each a harder ride
As your rides land well, you move up, and the help steps back.
- Four ideaseach turn
- Two ideaseach turn
- Ideasonly when you ask
- No ideasjust you and him
My practice shows what you’re getting good at and the one to work on. On game day, we email you your part for the real ride home.
It’s bigger than the drive
- A calmer ride homeThe first goal.
- He keeps coming back to you to talkWhen he does the talking, he makes sense of the game himself.
- Playing for his own reasonsKids who choose their sport and enjoy it put in more practice and show more commitment.
“I was genuinely so impressed (and shocked!) at how it adapted the examples and language based on the specific sport I selected.”
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.
Full year
$89
Launch price
The whole year, for less than two seasons. Every sport, every kid.
Get the yearTeam season
$39
per family
For a coach or team parent: one link for the team’s parent chat, for 8+ families.
Get a team passNot helping? Full refund within 30 days on a season or year pass, no questions asked.
One pass covers two of you. Add the other parent, or whoever else drives your kid home, for free, with their own sign-in.
Practice rides work for any sport. Lessons for baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, football, hockey, tennis, golf, lacrosse and swimming.
Passes end on their own. Nothing to cancel. By buying you agree to the terms.
Practice rides are free to try. The full version is $49 a season or $89 a year. See what you get
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