A child with real weather
The storm is a number the engine moves with every reply. Clouds, rain and the child's pose follow it.
Getting things ready…
Getting things ready…
Veltral is a 3-minute meltdown simulator for parents of 2–7 year olds. Practise the moment before it happens. No account needed.
Veltral #2 · Leaving the playground · par 3
Storm 75, steady. Zoe is stomping and shouting.
Storm at the start
75
Sample reply
Named the feeling −11
Today's scene, live: Zoe, 4–5, spirited.
12 scenes to rehearse, one free every day
Why Veltral
Three things make it a rehearsal, not a quiz.
The storm is a number the engine moves with every reply. Clouds, rain and the child's pose follow it.
Each move in your reply is named, with the exact words that made it and what it did to the storm.
Go back to the moment it went wrong and try other words. Both takes sit side by side.
Inside
Progress stays in your browser and grows with every scene.
Every helpful move counts toward its rank.
Keep the lines that worked and share them with a co-parent.
Three things to rehearse, ticked off as you do them.
Candy aisles, car seats, bedtime and more, ages 2 to 7.
Voice mode with the season pass: speak, and hear the child.
The engine decides. See the method.
Scored live
A sample reply from leaving the playground, scored by the engine when this page loaded.
Zoe, 4–5
NO! I'm not going! You can't make me!
runs to the top of the slide
You
You're sad to leave. It's time to go. Slide or swing for the last turn?
Underlined: the words the engine matched to a move.
| Named the feeling, helpful | −11 |
|---|---|
| Offered a choice, helpful | −13 |
| Empathy and the limit together | −6 |
| Capped: a storm moves at most 18 down or 25 up in one turn | +12 |
| This reply | −18 |
How it works
No setup and no sign-up. Open the scene and answer.
A familiar moment and a child with very big feelings. Read the limit you need to hold, then press Start.
Type what you would say. The child answers back, and the storm rises or settles.
See what each reply did, rewind to the turn that went wrong, and try other words.
Why rehearse
Two findings we rely on, with their sources.
48%
of parents say that most days their stress is completely overwhelming, compared to 26% among other adults.
U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory, 202477
evaluations of parent training programs in one meta-analysis: larger effects for programs that, among other things, required parents to practise new skills with their own child during sessions.
Kaminski and colleagues, 20080.986
tagging F1 with rules alone, on 63 replies held out from tuning; 0.966 with the model. A language model may only suggest tags; the engine decides.
The method and its limitsVeltral is rehearsal against a simulated child; we have not measured whether practice here changes what happens at home.
Pricing
The season pass opens every scene, your own replays, the coach and voice.
$0
For everyone, every day.
$59.99a year
$5.00 a month, billed once a year. You save $59.89.
FAQ
No. It is a practice tool, not therapy, medical advice or a diagnosis. The child is simulated and the scoring is a simplified model.
No. Today's scene is free and needs no account. Your history, streak and saved lines stay in this browser.
Your replies go to our server to run the scene, and to an AI model to tag them. Leave out real names and anything that identifies your family.
No. A tested, deterministic engine decides every outcome. A language model may only suggest tags, each tied to an exact quote from your reply, and the game still works with the model switched off.
Parents of children aged 2 to 7. There are four scenes each for ages 2–3, 4–5 and 6–7, with easygoing, sensitive and spirited children.
Yes, with the season pass. Describe what happened today and it becomes a scene you can replay.
Today: Leaving the playground, with Zoe, 4–5. About three minutes, no account.
Play today's meltdown