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Get this free 30-page ebook (& audiobook) that explains what overstimulating media is doing to our kids—and how to break the cycle.
✔ Understand how dopamine addiction works
✔ How to rebuild focus, imagination, and emotional balance
✔ Easy to read or listen in one sitting
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What If Your Kids’ Entertainment
Was Actually Good For Them?
Overstimulating media is leaving kids overwhelmed, screen dependent, and withdrawn. Sherwood offers a healthier way forward.
What If Your Kids’ Entertainment
Was Actually Good For Them?
Overstimulating media is leaving kids overwhelmed, screen dependent, and withdrawn. Sherwood offers a healthier way forward.
Our ad-free library of audiobooks and podcasts provide screen-free entertainment, while our low-stimulation shows and eBooks offer calm, engaging options for the moments when a screen is needed. Created for kids 3–14.
Our ad-free library of audiobooks and podcasts provide screen-free entertainment, while our low-stimulation shows and eBooks offer calm, engaging options for the moments when a screen is needed. Created for kids 3–14.
What’s the Real Cost of Overstimulating Entertainment?
When fast-paced, addictive media becomes the norm, kids don’t just zone out—research shows they fall behind in focus, learning, and social skills.
It rewires their brains.
Fast, chaotic content shortens attention spans and overwhelms developing minds.
Bad behavior becomes the model.
Kids copy what they see—whiny, rude, and fussy characters shape their the norm.
Curiosity shuts down.
Kids who once asked “why?” and “what if?” now just ask, “What’s next?”—because the screen always answers for them.
- It rewires their brains. Fast, chaotic content shortens attention spans and overwhelms developing minds.
- Bad behavior becomes the model. Whiny, obnoxious characters become the voices your kids mimic.
- Imagination gets crowded out. With nonstop noise and nonstop action, imagination isn’t sparked—it’s smothered.
- End of curiosity. Kids who once asked “why?” and “what if?” now just ask, “What’s next?”—because the screen always answers for them.
Emotions spiral.
Dopamine highs from intense media can crash into irritability, restlessness, or full-on meltdowns when the screen goes off.
You feel worn out and alone.
You’re tired of the guilt, the screen battles, and the endless search for something better. Deep down, you know something has to change.
Imagination gets dulled.
With nonstop noise and nonstop action, imagination isn’t sparked—it’s smothered.
- Emotions spiral. Dopamine crashes show up as irritability, boredom, or full-blown meltdowns.
- You’re exhausted. Constant guilt, screen battles, and endless searching for “something good” wear you down.
- You feel alone. Other families accept it. But something in you says, this can’t be what childhood is supposed to be.
- Cartoon morals, bratty jokes, and shallow messages start replacing what you'd actually want your kids to learn.
Joyfully Press ▶ Play
Sherwood offers thoughtful stories, not mindless noise—so you can feel good about what they watch and listen to.
Sherwood offers thoughtful stories, not mindless noise—so you can feel good about what they watch and listen to.
Made to improve focus, not destroy it
Low-stimulation stories help kids slow down, focus, and imagine—without the noise, speed, or brain-flood of modern media.
Improve their focus.
Low-stimulation stories help kids slow down, focus, and imagine—without the noise, speed, or brain-flood of modern media.
Non-Addictive Content
Sherwood stories require attention and imagination. When your child gets tired, that’s not failure—it’s a sign of real mental effort. That’s growth.
Non-addictive.
Sherwood stories require attention and imagination. When your child gets tired, that’s not failure—it’s a sign of real mental effort. That’s growth.
Characters that Model Timeless Values
From courage to kindness to hard work—our stories reinforce the values you’re already instilling at home.
Character's that model timeless virtues.
From courage to kindness to hard work—our stories reinforce the values you’re already instilling at home.
Makes Reading Entertainment Again
Your child will learn to love the stories that come alive through their own imagination—because once they’ve experienced that, meaningless cartoons just don’t measure up.
Making reading entertainment again.
Your child will learn to love stories that come alive through their own imagination—because once they’ve experienced that, meaningless cartoons just don’t measure up.
We Understand What You’re Up Against
You’re trying to raise thoughtful, grounded kids in a world that’s designed to distract them. You’ve said “no” to screen time only to cave an hour later. You’ve searched endlessly for better content, only to land on shows that are loud, shallow, or just plain weird. We’ve been there. That’s why we built Sherwood—for parents who want more than just something to “keep them busy.” You’re not alone—and it’s not too late to reset the story.
You’re trying to raise thoughtful, grounded kids in a world that’s designed to distract them. You’ve said “no” to screen time only to cave an hour later. You’ve searched endlessly for better content, only to land on shows that are loud, shallow, or just plain weird. We’ve been there. That’s why we built Sherwood—for parents who want more than just something to “keep them busy.” You’re not alone—and it’s not too late to reset the story.
You’re Not Alone
You’re Not Alone
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Create by parents for kids ages 3–14.
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With more than 20,000 hours of entertainment, you’ll never run out of new stories to explore.
Entertainment Shouldn’t Be a Waste of Time
Entertainment Shouldn’t Be a Waste of Time
Sherwood offers an intentional way to entertain without compromising your values or your child’s imagination.
Today’s media is fast, loud, and engineered to keep kids glued to the screen—leaving you with overstimulated minds and behavior you have to undo. Sherwood gives families a better option: an ad-free library of audiobooks, podcasts, eBooks, and low-stimulation shows designed for kids ages 3–14.
We built Sherwood to help kids grow in focus, creativity, and character—not to keep them entertained at all costs. Every story is crafted to reinforce what you’re already teaching at home: curiosity, resilience, kindness, and imagination. Nothing flashy. Nothing loud. Just great storytelling you can trust.
Whether you’re handing over a screen during a busy moment or playing a story during quiet time, Sherwood makes media feel like a tool—not a regret.
Because good entertainment should build your child up—not wear them down.
Today’s media is fast, loud, and engineered to keep kids glued to the screen—leaving you with overstimulated minds and behavior you have to undo. Sherwood gives families a better option: an ad-free library of audiobooks, podcasts, eBooks, and low-stimulation shows designed for kids ages 3–14.
We built Sherwood to help kids grow in focus, creativity, and character—not to keep them entertained at all costs. Every story is crafted to reinforce what you’re already teaching at home: curiosity, resilience, kindness, and imagination. Nothing flashy. Nothing loud. Just great storytelling you can trust.
Whether you’re handing over a screen during a busy moment or playing a story during quiet time, Sherwood makes media feel like a tool—not a regret.
Because good entertainment should build your child up—not wear them down.
Free Audiobook & eBook
THE OVERSTIMULATED CHILD:
A 30-Page Guide to Breaking the Dopamine Cycle and Rebuilding Focus, Imagination, and Emotional Ballance
By Jesse Hall, Founder of Sherwood
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"Overstimulating media is sabotaging the qualities we desperately want to nurture in our kids – their ability to focus, to regulate emotions, to be curious and polite – and it’s making family life harder. The evidence is loud and clear that something has to change."
- Jesse Hall (The Overstimulated Child)
"Overstimulating media is sabotaging the qualities we desperately want to nurture in our kids – their ability to focus, to regulate emotions, to be curious and polite – and it’s making family life harder. The evidence is loud and clear that something has to change."
The Overstimulated Child
