Little Pines Studio · Calls for Collaboration
A letter from the founder
Build
with us.In the first years of life, children express themselves naturally: they cry when they’re sad, they laugh when they’re delighted, they cling when they’re afraid, they withdraw when they’re overstimulated. Parents, teachers, and cultures then spend the next decade of a child’s life — often without meaning to — teaching them to suppress, ignore, and perform these feelings rather than notice, name, and understand them. By the time a child is eight, most of them have lost the vocabulary for what’s happening inside them, even as the feelings themselves are intensifying.
Eight invitations
In the studio
What we’re working on right now.
Building toward a target retail debut in holiday 2027. This is the work between now and then.
The four session types, v1.
The curriculum architecture: daily check-in, big feelings, curiosity, wind-down. Drafted with the pedagogy team. The bear is asleep by default.
What the product owes the child.
An essay on whose memory is it, what the parent can see, and why we are starting from the minimum.
The disclosure protocol, draft one.
What the plush does when a child discloses something serious, and the mandated-reporter framework behind it.
The efficacy study, pre-registered.
A two-arm RCT with 120 families over 12 weeks, co-designed with a leading child-development research lab.