The Trouble Markers

Bedtime was supposed to take a few minutes. Then came the water, the potty trip, one more book, another hug-and suddenly the whole night turned into a battle.

In The Trouble Markers: Bedtime Battles, Marker Box is ready for sleep, but Frusty Orange has other plans. As bedtime fills with delays, scribbles, and chaos, Magic Mindful Marker helps Marker Box follow a simple bedtime checklist, take a Superpower Breath, calm Frusty, and finally settle in for sleep.

About The Trouble Markers®

The Trouble Markers helps kids understand and manage big emotions-and makes parenting easier.

The world centers on Marker Box, an emotional explorer who faces the everyday feelings toddlers know all too well.

When big emotions escape as mischievous Trouble Markers, a simple moment turns into a whirlwind of color, scribbles, and chaos.

With gentle guidance from Magic Mindful Marker, Marker Box learns to pause, try a self-regulation tool, take a Superpower Breath, capture the Trouble Markers, and bring the world back into balance.

Each story starts in a blank white setting-representing the mind-and the Trouble Markers draw the world into existence.

Kids see that their feelings shape their experience of the world and that big feelings have a place and can be integrated into balance. They learn to see their feelings as friendly characters they can name and handle. Parents get a shared language for the hardest emotional moments.

"Capturing Trouble Markers always makes me feel better."