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The Connection Deck for Teens & Parents

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The Connection Deck for Teens & Parents

Real Conversations, Real Connection · Teens + Parents

4.9111,868+ kids helped

Conversation-starter cards that get teens to actually open up. Built to rebuild connection between you and your teenager, one honest question at a time.

  • Instant digital download
  • Yours forever
  • Therapist-built
  • For teens + parents
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  • Instant digital access, yours forever
  • Teens + parents
  • Therapist-built and evidence-based
  • 90-day money-back guarantee

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Kids helped

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What you get

What you get

  • Conversation-starter cards that move past "how was school" and "fine"
  • Questions built to lower a teen's guard so they actually talk
  • Prompts you can pull up at the dinner table, in the car, or anywhere
  • Therapist-built and evidence-based, not random icebreakers
  • Instant access on your phone, no printing or prep required
  • Yours to keep forever, so you can come back to it any time

Getting a teen to open up, one question at a time

Somewhere around the teen years, the easy conversations get harder. You ask how their day went and get one word back. The Connection Deck gives you a different way in: real questions, built by therapists, that get past the shrug and into an actual conversation.

These aren't random icebreakers. Each card is written to lower a teen's guard and make it feel safe to say more than "fine." You pull up a card, ask the question, and let the conversation go where it goes. No lecture, no pressure, just a way back to each other.

It's a digital download, so the moment you check out it's yours on any device. Keep it on your phone for the car ride, the dinner table, or the quiet moment before bed, wherever connection actually happens for your family.

A different way in, when \"how was your day\" stops working.

How it works

Simple enough to use tonight

1

Reach for a card

The moment a feeling hits, you grab the card that fits instead of scrambling for the right words.

2

Read the script

Every card is written word-for-word by age, so you just read it out loud. No prep, no training.

3

Watch them settle

Your kid picks a calm-down strategy they actually like, and the storm passes faster than it used to.

The people behind it

Built by people who needed this too

Trailies isn't a worksheet from a stranger. It's the script two people wished they'd had, made with the clinicians who know what actually works.

Debbie, Co-founder, former SEL educator
DebbieCo-founder, former SEL educator
I spent years watching good parents freeze at the exact moment their kid needed words. So we wrote the words down.
Jonah, Founder, cycle-breaker
JonahFounder, cycle-breaker
Nobody handed my parents a script. I built the one I wish they'd had, so the next kid gets the talk instead of the silence.

Every deck and script is built with child psychologists and grounded in PCIT, CBT, and 200+ studies.

What parents say

In their own words

I keep these on the kitchen counter and reach for one the second things start to go sideways. It has genuinely changed our mornings.
Jessica R.Mom of three, Denver
My kids actually ask for the cards now when they're upset. I use them too. Honestly? It changed the room.
Sarah M.3rd Grade Teacher, Portland
I recommend this to every family I work with. Parents need something they can grab when everyone's falling apart. This is that thing.
Lisa Chen, LMFTLicensed Family Therapist

Questions

Everything you might be wondering

The Connection Deck for Teens & Parents

Everything you get today

The Connection Deck for Teens & Parents

  • Conversation-starter cards that move past "how was school" and "fine"
  • Questions built to lower a teen's guard so they actually talk
  • Prompts you can pull up at the dinner table, in the car, or anywhere
  • Therapist-built and evidence-based, not random icebreakers
  • Instant access on your phone, no printing or prep required
  • Yours to keep forever, so you can come back to it any time
$29.00$37.70· 90-day money-back guarantee

The 90-day money-back guarantee

Try it with your family, risk-free. If it's not right for you, email us within 90 days and we'll make it right, no hoops and no hard feelings. The only risk is another week of winging it.

Every Talk you buy, another family gets one free.

3,200+ Talks gifted so far through the Trailies Forward Fund. No strings — just one parent making sure another has the words too.

How the Forward Fund works