Build a
deeper
bond
with your child.

How you connect with your child builds your bond – and their brain! The four components of the CuddleBright® Experience toolkit work together to help you create shared interactions to connect, comfort and calm both you and your child.

Cuddly
Comfort

The soft and snuggly CuddleBright® Lovie will help calm and comfort your child, decrease stress, and foster self-soothing when your child is tired or upset during transitions, separations or unfamiliar situations.

Making Bye-Bye
Better

Learning to say goodbye is difficult – but important – for both parent and child! Ease the distress of separation by using a consistent goodbye routine and ritual, like the one modeled in the A Cuddle Before I Go book. This helps your child feel safe, secure and connected to you.

Soothe Separations
for Parent
and
Baby

Because we know separations and transitions can be hard for you too, nestled within the pages of A Cuddle Before I Go is a Keepsake Heart, your own special, transitional object to hold and touch as an active reminder of the loving connection you and your child share. Inscribed on the heart are the words Connect Comfort Calm to guide and inspire your parenting.

Manage
Meltdowns

Kiss that tall stack of parenting books goodbye! The CuddleBright® Parenting Guide teaches essential topics related to your child’s social and emotional development to help them thrive.

Minimize Tantrums

Understand Temperament

Learn Practical Skills and Everyday Strategies

The CuddleBright®
Experience

The CuddleBright Experience was designed with parent and child in mind to promote a secure attachment starting from birth.

The CuddleBright® Experience Kit includes:

CuddleBright® Lovie

A Cuddle Before I Go Board Book

Keepsake Heart

CuddleBright® Parenting Guide

Access to Curated Parenting Resources

CuddleBright® Songs

Encourage self-soothing, calm and comfort, and remind baby of the warm connection you share with a super-soft and adorable animal friend!

There’s a little something for you, too! Slip this soft, rubber heart printed with inspirational words in your pocket as the perfect reminder of the loving bond you share with your little one!

Gain practical skills and strategies to help you and baby build a deeper connection with this 140-page, research-based Parenting Guide, created by child development experts!

Read this beautifully illustrated, 18-page board book with your baby each day to create your own comforting goodbye routine!

We’ve
selected
some of the most interesting parenting information

From the
Experts

Informed by the latest neuroscience and early childhood development research, the CuddleBright® Experience offers the opportunity to practice interactive strategies and fun brain-building activities to manage transitions and strengthen your bond with your baby.

"The CuddleBright® Experience is truly a life-saver! Our sobbing day care drop-offs have transformed into happy, loving goodbyes thanks to the A Cuddle Before I Go book and the tips and tricks I learned from the CuddleBright® Parenting Guide. I can’t thank you enough!"

-Lindey H.

mom to baby Claire, 18 months

"By emphasizing the emotional experience of infants and toddlers, CuddleBright® Experience provides a unique roadmap to enhance parents’ connections to their children. These loving serve-and-return interactions early in life are beautifully illustrated and are fundamental to creating emotionally secure successful adults."

-Michael Yogman

MD, FAAP, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

"The ‘Eyes and Ears’ section of the CuddleBright® Parenting Guide really spoke to us. Putting down our phones and giving our son our undivided attention has helped us learn to be present as a family and really see not just him, but each other, too."

-David H.

dad to Avery 5 and Peter 2

"As a pediatrician, I know the impact of the child’s experiences in the first years of life. Experiences organize the brain to develop the connections that allow future skill attainment and healthy social skills to deal with life’s challenges."

-Robert Adler

MD, MS Ed. Chief Medical Officer, CHLA Health System Senior Advisor to the Chair of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Professor of Pediatrics Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California

"This Mama is singing your praise! I can’t tell you what it means to be able to leave the house without feeling guilty and sad. When I am calm our whole family is happier thanks to the rituals and routines of the CuddleBright® Experience."

-Susie C.

mom to Caroline, 3

"By emphasizing the emotional experience of infants and toddlers, CuddleBright® Experience provides a unique roadmap to enhance parents’ connections to their children. These loving serve-and-return interactions early in life are beautifully illustrated and are fundamental to creating emotionally secure successful adults."

-Michael Yogman

MD, FAAP, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

"The CuddleBright® Experience has made such a difference in our daily life that we even ordered a spare CuddleBright® Lovie, just in case!"

-Allison M.

mom to Rose 10 months and Henry 2

"The focus of the Simms/Mann Institute on disseminating and integrating knowledge of the crucial 0-3 years of development is expanding our ability to improve the health of the whole child and of every child."

-Robert Adler

MD, MS Ed. Chief Medical Officer, CHLA Health System Senior Advisor to the Chair of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Professor of Pediatrics Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California

"By emphasizing the emotional experience of infants and toddlers, CuddleBright® Experience provides a unique roadmap to enhance parents’ connections to their children. These loving serve-and-return interactions early in life are beautifully illustrated and are fundamental to creating emotionally secure successful adults."

-Michael Yogman

MD, FAAP, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

"As a pediatrician, I know the impact of the child’s experiences in the first years of life. Experiences organize the brain to develop the connections that allow future skill attainment and healthy social skills to deal with life’s challenges. The focus of the Simms/Mann Institute on disseminating and integrating knowledge of the crucial 0-3 years of development is expanding our ability to improve the health of the whole child and of every child."

-Robert Adler

MD, MS Ed. Chief Medical Officer, CHLA Health System Senior Advisor to the Chair of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Professor of Pediatrics Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California

Build
Security and Confidence

Looking for ways to connect with your little one? Need help adding structure to your family’s day? Struggling with stressful separations from your child? Interested in learning tips for your own self-care?

Join us for our 2-part Intro to CuddleBright® series. Using the CuddleBright® Experience kit, the course distills the science of early childhood for parents and offers practical strategies for parents and children to connect, comfort and calm.

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CuddleBright®
Cares

CuddleBright® is a philanthropic effort of the Simms/Mann Institute to support research and education in early child development. CuddleBright® partners with qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit hospitals, health centers, and community-based agencies to empower underserved families with young children.

By providing in-kind contributions of the CuddleBright Experience toolkit, the Simms/Mann Institute offers a no-cost resource for community providers to amplify their existing parent-child programming.

The Simms/Mann Institute donates hundreds of CuddleBright® Kits to children and families each year.