A rewards app for a child who finds some things harder than other children do. Nothing is ever taken away, and nothing ever tells them no.
So it stops being something to try at and becomes something to protect. And when one bad afternoon wipes out a fortnight, “it’s stupid, I don’t care” isn’t a tantrum. It’s an accurate assessment.
Here there is no subtract. Not on a hard day, not when you cancel, not ever. That one missing operation is the whole design — every other rule in the product follows from it.
This is the real thing. Tap anything.
Now try to take one off Ivy. There is no button for it — and there isn’t one in the app either.
Eight worlds. Not every child wants the same one.
A child with a screen has a very high bar. Everything on it is instant, the pace is relentless, and the numbers are enormous. Nobody is moved by three points.
So this is built as a game rather than a chore chart. It has worlds, a companion who notices things, a journey with stops along it, and ranks that are yours for life. In Gold Medal Game a point is not a point — it is a billion, and once a child passes a thousand of them the app starts counting in trillions.
Underneath, the numbers stay small and sane, so a prize still costs what it should and you never type a figure. What changes is what your child hears.
You are not asking them to care about a chart instead of a screen. You are playing their game with them.
A child cannot practise a negative. “Don’t” describes an absence, and an absence is not a thing anybody can be proud of.
When a child has done something steadily for weeks, the app offers to retire that button. Not delete — retire. And it never decides on its own; it asks the grown-up, who can always say not yet.
It moves to “things you just do now”. Every point it ever earned stays earned.
One price, no tiers. Deciding whether your child will use something is enough of a decision on its own.
A card is not allowed to take anything from a child. You keep:
She is the kind of child who hears about what went wrong all day and almost never hears what went right. We tried the charts. They worked for about nine days each, and every one of them could take a point back.
So I built one that can’t. Other families saw it and asked to use it. Two are using it now.
There is no company. It is one person in Florida, and you would be early.
It is not treatment and it is not therapy, and no app can promise your child will change. What this one does is make the good things visible and let them add up somewhere a child can see them.
No card to start. Then $7 a month or $59 a year.
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214 blocks on this page. One for every point. None of them come off.