Partner brief

Preschool & childcare directors · KudoKids partner brief

First-time parents ask about screens at home.

For books and counting games, you have a handout ready. For the tablet, there's an awkward pause — you run a hands-on program, and you can't hand out a link to more screen hours without undercutting your own brand.

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Partner brief

What it is

KudoKids is safe screen time for kids 3–12 that instills growth.

Live in early access now on the web, iOS, and Android — a growing library of games and routines that turn the screen time kids already get into time that grows them.

HeartKindness, gratitude, and naming what they feel

HeadReading, STEM, and money smarts

GritRoutines, chores, and finishing what they start

Free for every family — routines, the full library of games, and a first companion are included. Premium ($11.99/mo or $99/yr) adds the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras kids earn through their routines — never a wall in front of the learning.

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How it works

Effort in, rewards out — and parents decide what they're worth.

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Set the routine

Parents pick the tasks and responsibilities that matter this week.

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Kids earn Kudo Coins

Finishing tasks earns coins — visible progress, not nagging.

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Parents choose the reward

Coins buy rewards parents set — including off-app screen time.

Earned, not handed over

The Kudo Coin — kids earn it, parents decide what it's worth. Everyday effort becomes rewards a parent actually approves of.

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The cast

Twenty companions, each one cheering kids on.

These are the faces of KudoKids. Every companion has its own personality — and thousands of sayings that guide, encourage, and celebrate kids as they grow.

Every family starts with a companion for free — Premium adds the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras kids earn through their routines, as a parent's choice, never pressure on a child. Your recommendation never becomes an upsell to your families.

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Childcare directors in focus

How it lands in a low-screen program.

On-mission by design

The same routines you teach, carried home

Kids earn Kudo Coins by finishing real-world tasks — getting dressed, brushing teeth, tidying up — so the reward loop starts off-screen by design, and parents decide what coins buy, including the screen time they configure.

What parents see

See what they're up to

The dashboard belongs to the parent: they see what their kid is earning, playing, and learning — the kindergarten-ready habits your program builds, carried home. And mood check-ins, meditations, and sleep sounds cover the bedtime questions you get constantly.

Routines — a real screen from the app

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Why this matters

Three kids you already know.

The child who knows what comes next

A four-year-old who knows the shape of her evening — dinner, bath, two books, lights out — arrives Monday morning a different child than one whose nights get improvised.

Preschool family routines predicted better school readiness at kindergarten across 3,250 children. Ferretti & Bub 2017, Early Education and Development.

Words before the meltdown

The three-year-old who bites has no word yet for “I wanted that.” Crossing from grabbing to saying it doesn't stop at 5:30 — it just stops being watched.

In 143 children aged 3–4, emotional competence predicted social competence then and in kindergarten. Denham et al. 2003, Child Development.

Small jobs, real capability

The three-year-old who insists on carrying his own plate is telling you what he needs. Children given real jobs instead of pretend ones stand differently in your room.

Across 9,971 children, kindergarten chores were associated with kids feeling more capable by third grade. White et al. 2019, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics.

Research behind the design — these researchers have not evaluated KudoKids, and we claim no results for children who use it

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Safe by design

Built to earn a parent's trust — and keep it.

No ads to kids

Children never see advertising inside KudoKids.

No strangers

No chat or contact with people your child doesn't know.

No child data sold

We never sell children's data. Ever.

No AI on kids' screens

The kid experience uses no AI — just carefully designed play.

No ads, everNo child data sold Ages 3–12

Recommended by child-development experts.

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Honest answers

The first three questions directors ask.

Q

We're a low-screen program — doesn't recommending an app undercut our philosophy?

KudoKids works with the home screen time already happening and is engineered to point back at the real world. Kudo Coins are earned by doing real tasks and routines, and when coins do buy device time, it's only time a parent deliberately set aside — the screen-time companion that makes a kid earn it, one routine at a time.

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I can't be seen selling anything to enrolled families.

The education-partner track has no financial relationship — no affiliate link, no commission, nothing to disclose. It's a resource on a parent handout, exactly like a book list.

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Is there anything to buy, install, or set up for families?

No procurement, no contracts, no student data. Families sign up directly and the core app is free to use.

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Forward this

Three sentences you can paste to a family.

A lot of you ask what home time should look like, especially around screens — one tool we're comfortable naming is KudoKids (kudokids.org).

It's free for ages 3–12: kids earn coins by doing real routines like getting dressed and tidying up, and you decide what the coins buy — including screen time.

No ads are shown to kids, and no child data is sold.

Swap in the exact wording that fits how your program talks to families — a newsletter line, a parent-night handout, or a graduation packet.

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Next step

Bring KudoKids to the parents who keep asking.

Vet it yourself first — open a free account and check every line before ever saying a word to a family. Then apply: one line in your newsletter, zero programs for you to run, and nothing your families have to buy.

kudokids.org/partners

Apply now → kudokids.org/partners/join

No ads, everNo child data sold Ages 3–12

Live in early access now on web, iOS, and Android. Recommended by child-development experts.

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