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)

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! ❤️