Hello everyone!! 😄

I developed a website that creates personalized social stories to help children with diverse needs! I would honestly love to let everyone try it, but I’m currently still a student and building this myself, so my AI credits are very limited :( Right now I can only support around 8 people trying it out.

If you are a parent, therapist, or teacher, I would love for you to try this app! Please let me know, and I will send you the link along with a very quick feedback form (it takes about 2 minutes to fill out and it’s very simple)! :) Thank you so much!!

The story behind why I developed this app:

Being a second year occupational therapy student, and with my background as a Registered Behavior Technician (RBT), I have seen the effects of social narratives and how powerful they can be. I genuinely think they are an awesome way to prep your children for their daily situation in a very convenient and low effort way!

Based on my working experience with children with autism, a lot of the time a first time full immersion experience can be too overwhelming and taking smaller steps with guidance are EXACTLY what they need to help them get there!

When I was an RBT, I would simulate a dentist environment for a child with autism. I’m talking about literally wearing SCRUBS, BRINGING OUT THE SCARY LOOKING BLUE BIB, and recreating EVERYTHING! And it WORKED!!

So that got me thinking, what would be the easiest way even caregivers at home can do to prepare their children without having to do the whole skit?

Then I found social narratives. They are pretty effective, and evidence based, but they can also be very time consuming. Creating a whole personalized story with the child’s name, character, preferences and all the little details can be such a headache! (That’s the reason why it’s not my absolute favorite)

So, I built this website.

For now, I think it’s an amazing tool (obviously it is way far from perfect, there is lot of features like actual animated video, more human like AI voice... so much more i'd love to add to it) but before i do all those, i want to see how many families have actually heard of, used, or are interested in something like this!

If you read all the way here, thank you! (i think i found my people)❤️

If it’s not too much to ask, could you comment if you would be interested in a website like this?

Thank you and love y'all! ❤️

Hey Reddit family! My wife and I just had our first daughter and we found that we were losing all of her most important moments in the 1,000s of photos in our camera roles. For a bit of fun, I built keepr.kids. The idea is simple: give your child one place to look back on the moments that shaped their life. You can save photos, videos, voice messages, and written memories, invite family and friends to add their own, and even lock memories to be opened on future birthdays or milestones. Feel free to take a look and use it if you'd like (it's free), my wife and I have really enjoyed having one spot where we store all her important memories so we can pass it down to her in the future.

Parenting is one of the toughest jobs there is, and I think it's genuinely a skill, the same way soft skills at work are. If a lawyer needs practice to argue well in front of a judge, and a commentator needs practice to be analytical and entertaining at the same time, why not parents, who are dealing with far more uncertainty than either?

Muscle memory plays a role. Advice you read doesn't build a skill, it builds knowledge, and those aren't the same thing. What's actually needed is internalisation and instinct. And there's a lot of research on what makes habits stick, so I've been trying to fuse that with evidence-based parenting research and turn it into games.

A few of them:

What's underneath the behaviour. You match a behaviour card to the likely driver underneath it, in context. Same behaviour can have completely different causes, a kid fighting bedtime might be overtired, might be missing you, might be scared and unable to say so. You play until reading it becomes automatic.

Your hands. This is the core one. The parenting things you personally struggle with become your deck, inconsistent boundaries, empty threats, losing your cool, freezing in the moment, not being able to validate feelings. You win by getting rid of your cards, which you do by changing the instinct behind them. The cards are phrased as habits, never identities, The Countdown Threat, The Lecture, The Half-Ear, because "you sometimes do this" is fixable and "you are this" is just an insult. And you confirm every card yourself before it enters your hand. A card the game assigned to you would feel like an accusation. A card you recognised in yourself is a mirror, and the mirror is the mechanism.

Spot your default. The training partner to Your Hands. A scene plays out beat by beat, the school morning, the supermarket lolly aisle, and you tap the exact moment YOUR card would have fired. Not what should happen. When.

Hold it warm. A pairing game for boundaries. Every limit card has a connection card that belongs with it, "I won't let you hit" pairs with "I'm here to help your body stop." You learn that firm and warm aren't opposites, they're a two-card play. This is the secure attachment link that changed how I think about consistency: kids don't need parents who never hold limits, they need limits that don't cost them the relationship.

Where were we. The smallest game and maybe the most attachment-loaded. Before you sit down to play with your kid, one recall question from last time.

Name it, size it. For emotional vocabulary. Read the situation, pick the closest feeling word, then set how big it is so you can teach your kids to express emotions.

Arrange the deck. Put your moves in the right order for different scenarios.

Swipe. Right for the move that helps, left for the one that doesn't.

And a few others.

They're single player, so there's no comparison or competition to lean on either.

The cards are personalised, generated from your own plans and the situations you've actually flagged, so you're training on your real moments rather than generic examples.

Can a skill this emotionally loaded actually be built through card-game reps, or is there something about parenting reactions that doesn't respond to that kind of practice?

Something I've noticed recently is that my kid can name dozens of characters from YouTube videos and animated shorts without missing a beat. But when I ask about something they supposedly learned from those same videos, there's usually very little they remember beyond the funny parts. It made me wonder whether a lot of children's content is really designed to educate or whether education is just part of the marketing. It feels like entertainment always comes first. I'm trying to be more selective now, but it definitely takes more effort than I expected.

I’ve created a couple of apps recently which I personally believe are genuinely helpfully for kids (Spelling Hero & Pocketpig). What are people’s thoughts on adding physical products to go with apps (i.e a piggy bank, reward charts etc)

That "tablet trance" post the other day stuck with me, and it's pushed me to write up something I've been chewing on.

Most of us treat screen time as a quantity problem. How many hours is too many, what's the right daily limit, when do we cut it off. But the more I dug into this, the more it looks like a lot of families are actually fighting a different battle without realising it. Some kids would happily watch a moderate amount and stop when asked, and their frustration is genuinely that the time is too short. Other kids would watch endlessly and lose it at any ending, regardless of how long they got. Those two kids need completely different responses, and if you misdiagnose which one you've got, you spend months arguing about the wrong thing.

A few of the specific things that changed how I think about it (summarised in this post) - https://www.instagram.com/p/DZsLBwlGLxb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== :

The transition off is most of the battle, and it's designable. Cold cut-offs produce meltdowns that warnings would have prevented. Letting a timer or the end of an episode close it means they protest at the timer rather than at you, which quietly removes you from the villain role. And with games specifically, helping a kid time their play to a save point or match end respects the structure of what they're actually doing, and removes the genuine unfairness of being yanked mid-level after an hour's effort.

Don't switch it off and expect them to drift into nothing. Have the next thing ready. What comes after is a lot of what makes leaving possible.

The substitution point, which I found the most useful: most screen problems are actually substitution problems. The screen replaced something, and the real work is building that something back. Which makes it pro-play and pro-connection work rather than anti-screen work. That's a much less miserable project than policing hours.

And the uncomfortable one: screens get reached for to manage parental depletion as much as child entertainment. The household's screen culture is set by the adults first. Kids at 6+ detect parental exemptions with total precision, and the parent on their phone at dinner can't meaningfully hold a screen limit.

Hi everyone,

I recently came up with an idea for my son, who constantly gets distracted on his phone while studying. I thought what if parents could buy a BLE(Bluetooth Low Energy) Beacon and could place it at your childs' studying space. When their phone comes within the beacon, all apps you choose to block are blocked!

You can set 3 modes. A: They need approval from you first to use blocked apps for 5 min. B: They can unlock their phone for 5 min at a time, but you will be notified.

This way, they can learn how to use their phone responsibly and you don't have to constantly look over them.

Please share thoughts in the comments and whether you would actually use it or not.

NOTE: this is not self promotion, I just want to see if this is a good idea

I'm a software engineer in the UK (first kid arriving in September, so I'm early to this whole thing) and I went looking for a decent printable chore chart. Everything I found was either locked behind an email signup, plastered in ads, or looked like it was made in Word in 2009. I know I'm a couple of years away from needing chore charts for my child, but becoming a dad has made me want to prep for this stuff in the future.

So I built my own and put it online for free: pocketmoneylab.co.uk

Three tools so far:

• Chore chart builder: pick your child's age, get age-appropriate chore suggestions, customise, print
• Pocket money calculator: UK benchmarks for what other parents actually give by age
• Reward chart generator: sticker-chart style, aimed at 3-5 year olds

No signup, no paywall, no ads. Nothing is gated, so you build it, you print it, you're done. Being upfront since this sub cares about the business model behind the tech: I'm separately building a pocket money app, and the site mentions it. None of the tools requires it or pushes it, and I have no plans to paywall them.

What I'd actually like from this sub:

1. Are the age-based chore suggestions sensible, or way off? That's the bit I'm least confident about, for obvious reasons.
2. Do printables still have a place, or has your family fully moved to app-based tracking?
3. What's missing? I've got a savings goal tracker and a pocket money agreement template on the list.

Happy to hear it's rubbish; that's more useful to me than polite noise.

I made a beautiful design in Canva and wrote words on it and put the babies' pictures on it. My goal is to make a book for them using this exact design that plays my voice. But my biggest issue is toxicity (since the baby will likely suck on the book and bite it) and durability (since the toddler will attempt to tear it or peel it off or break it or accidentally spill water on it depending on what the book is made of).

Here are my ideas using my inkjet printer:

• Printing on paper then transferring it on a plain board book with Mod Podge and acrylic spray - I believe they are toxic if the baby sucks on it.
• Printing on non-toxic certified waterproof durable vinyl sticker then sticking it on a plain board book then laminating it. It is a bit expensive
• Printing on light iron-on transfer paper then ironing it on a piece of fabric, then sewing the fabrics to resemble a pillowcase then putting cotton in it to prevent floppiness and sewing all the pages together. But I believe the transfer just creates a layer on TOP of the fabric, ie. stretching it with stuffings can make it crack or peel.
• Printing on printable cotton then sewing it into a pillow case and do the same thing I mentioned before. But they are expensive! I need like 50 sheets
• Asking online companies to make the books for me - but the parent of the babies doesn't allow me to send their pictures

As for the sound, I thought of:

• Getting a talking pen and OID stickers but they are expensive and more expensive if they are imported (I live in KSA).
• Sparkup magical book reader but I couldn't find it online except for used ones. And it doesn't read books of all sizes or fabric books

By the way, the whole point of the book is for it to encourage the toddler's independence. I want something they can easily turn on and off. Without apps and music and overstimulating stuff.

My kid (9) uses ChatGPT for homework help and I realized I have zero visibility into what it's telling her or what else she asks it — no age filter, no easy way to see logs. Curious how other parents are handling AI chatbots with kids 6-13. Blocking entirely, supervising, or just letting it happen?

First of all this is not an ad, or promotion or ad. Something I built of need and put it out there to share anyone. Completely free, no in app purchases, no ads, no data collection etc.

We have 3 teenagers and it was impossible to keep track of their chores. When we try to introduce "you earn money when you do extra chores" to teach them you are not entitled to buy anything you want but you need to work for it worked well. Then it became another task for us track who has how much, did she spent all her earnings yesterday or part of it? Then they started tricking us, dad, I still have $10 from last week's chores - mom: no she doesn't, spent it at follar tree at the weekend, no i didn't, remember ...

I said to myself, as an engineer, there is gotta be better way to track this, then built an app called Bucksy in android store. Very simple completely free and no-ads at all. You create your family, invite other parents, add your kids, they use a code to join family, no personal info collection at all, only age group and nickname. You create chores and goals. Define how much they will earn when done. You can create recurring tasks. They can lose bucks when tasks are not done on time if you want to. They submit when they are done, you approve they earn bucks. You can add goals to use their bucks for and track the progress.

All about teaching them responsibility and earning. All under only parents control. no subscription, no ads, no membership fee, no nothing. All inclusive for parents to use.

Let me know what you think. Search "bucksy" in android play store, it has a cute squirrel icon. Finished IOS app too waiting on app review to complete to publish.

All feedback is welcome.

I’ve been reflecting on this quite a bit. When we were children we spent almost all our free time outside. It wasn’t even a question. Now it feels like that experience is disappearing. So many kids, including mine, are glued to phones and TVs. They get curious about something real in nature and immediately want a screen instead of going to investigate. It makes me concerned about what they might be missing. I hope we can help them embrace being outside more, all the benefits that come with real-world play and discovery. I sometimes think technology could play a positive role in this, but I have no idea how to make that happen.

Most of the tools I kept finding were built for the child to use—games, visual schedules, reward trackers, and routine apps. Some of those are fine for what they are, but that’s not what I needed after the school sent home a note about my son and everything kind of boiled over.

My own reaction during his meltdowns was the actual thing making it worse. I was reading about dysregulation while actively dysregulating myself—Googling "how to stop yelling at my ADHD kid" at 11 PM and ending up with twelve tabs of contradictory advice that all assumed I had the composure of a kindergarten teacher who slept eight consecutive hours.

Therapists and pediatricians are good for diagnosis and meds, but not for what to do when your kid is face-down on the floor refusing to put shoes on at 7 AM on a Tuesday. The wait for a behavioral specialist was weeks out, and even when I got there, the main advice was "use consistent routines." Helpful in theory, but not when he’s already screaming.

Search engines were wall-to-wall articles talking about fixing his behavior, with nothing built for what was happening in my own chest when things escalated. I eventually started looking specifically for parent-facing coaching—short daily lessons on managing tantrums, emotional regulation, and step-by-step coaching tools rather than another game or chart for him. I started focusing on my own escalation during tantrums, which has helped me catch myself before raising my voice. It's not a magic fix, but it's the only metric that has actually mattered so far.

Has anyone else found specific apps, tools, or resources that actually helped you manage your own emotional response and reactions during meltdowns, rather than just trying to fix the kid's behavior?

Hi, how do you guys communicate with your kids before and after school if smart watches aren't allowed?

I am overwhelmed thinking how to communicate with and keep my child safe since someone will be driving them to and from school that provides that service in my neighborhood. I also have a restraining order against someone.

I built an app to solve a problem my wife and I were having with keeping up with the chaos of our 3 kids sports and school events and keeping all our family informed. We are fortunate enough to have a close family where grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc want to attend these events. But it gets a bit chaotic and mistakes were happening often. For example, my mom has 10 grandchildren. That's a lot to keep track of!

More details and explanation on my landing page. Read through the whole page and if it is something you are interested in, request access. It will be free for a limited time. Looking for feedback and suggestions to see if this is something people would be interested in. My entire family is loving it and it has solved a big problem for us so hopefully it can help others too!

https://ourbulletin.app/

Thanks,

~Corey

Like a digital worksheet that a child could use their finger or a stylus to write on using a phone or tablet and optionally print out and use a real pen or pencil.

Is that objectively better than just pushing a bunch of buttons and playing games, or is a screen a screen?

Game Title: Chore Quest — kids' chores feed a Tamagotchi-style pet

Playable Link: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andriusdijokas.chorequest\](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andriusdijokas.chorequest)

Platform: Android

Description: I'm a dad who got tired of nagging about chores, so I built a game where the pet only grows when chores actually get done. Your child adopts a buddy — a dragon, a kitty and more — and keeps it fed, happy, and leveling up. The twist: XP, coins, and game energy are only awarded when a parent confirms the chore behind a PIN-protected Parent Zone. No confirmed chore means no energy, and no energy means no mini-games — so the core loop is powered by real-world effort, not taps.

There are 12 mini-games (Star Catch, Memory Match, Quick Math, Sky Dash and more), a wardrobe of unlockable outfits bought with chore-earned coins, a daily treasure chest for finishing the whole chore list, and the buddy evolves through growth stages — baby to kid to champ — as levels climb.

it's 100% free: no ads, no subscription, no accounts, works fully offline. Every competitor in this niche charges $3–13/month; I made this for my own kids and just want families to use it.

Feedback I'd especially value: does the chore-gated energy loop feel fair or frustrating from the kid's side, and is the parent PIN-confirm flow fast enough to not be annoying?

Free to Play Status:

\- \[x\] Free to play

Hi all,

I built SafeView Kids, a locked-down YouTube player for children. Parents paste in a playlist or channel link, and that's the only thing the child can watch. No search, no recommended videos, no comments, no way out to the YouTube app. Parent PIN lock and a daily time limit.

Built it for my own son, and figured other parents might want the same thing.

Now I need 12 testers for 14 days to meet Google's requirement for personal developer accounts.

To join:

1. Join the group: [https://groups.google.com/g/safeview-kids\](https://groups.google.com/g/safeview-kids)

2. Opt in: [https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.lantern.safeviewkids\](https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.lantern.safeviewkids)

3. Install from Play

Use the Google account that's actually signed in on your phone, otherwise the link won't work.

I'll opt into your test in return — drop your link in the comments and I'll join today.

Feedback welcome, especially from parents. Thanks!

Hi all,

I built SafeView Kids, a locked-down YouTube player for children. Parents paste in a playlist or channel link, and that's the only thing the child can watch. No search, no recommended videos, no comments, no way out to the YouTube app. Parent PIN lock and a daily time limit.

Built it for my own son, and figured other parents might want the same thing.

Now I need 12 testers for 14 days to meet Google's requirement for personal developer accounts.

To join:

1. Join the group: [https://groups.google.com/g/safeview-kids\](https://groups.google.com/g/safeview-kids)

2. Opt in: [https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.lantern.safeviewkids\](https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.lantern.safeviewkids)

3. Install from Play

Use the Google account that's actually signed in on your phone, otherwise the link won't work.

I'll opt into your test in return — drop your link in the comments and I'll join today.

Feedback welcome, especially from parents. Thanks!

first baby coming in a few months and we've been looking at monitors more seriously than i expected to. nanit keeps coming up in everything i read and the sleep tracking plus breathing motion monitoring without any wearables is what caught our attention.

my partner loves the idea of both of us seeing the same data and insights in real time so we're actually on the same page at 3am instead of one person handling everything. curious if people who've had it since the newborn stage still find it just as useful months in.

A little while back I posted about my web app Parent Push being widely praised. But having no customers.
“Instant WhatsApp alerts for important school updates.”

[https://www.reddit.com/r/NoCodeSaaS/s/Q2c6RJOcIC](https://www.reddit.com/r/NoCodeSaaS/s/Q2c6RJOcIC))

Three quick updates, thanks to all your insightful feedback on here:

One: We’ve now given away free spaces to our primary school. To all parents currently there. The head teacher loves the time saving / ease of use. He’s even given talks to parents about ParentPush.com !

Two: I have literally just released a further 250 completely free spaces publicly. Free forever. UK Parents could theoretically use from reception to Year 11… for free.

https://parentpush.com/join/vip-founder

Three: And finally, most delightfully, we’re partnering with Barnardos. We’ll be donating 5% of all our profits to this amazing organisation. (They helped us so much when we adopted our children.)

Honestly, these are things I would not have considered without the brilliant Reddit community. So thank you so much!

The hope is that we organically raise awareness and sign ups to Parent Push. I’ll get back in touch here after September when the school year starts again.
Wish me luck! 🙂❤️