Partner brief

Parenting creators · KudoKids partner brief

Screen-time guilt does big numbers. Give it an ending.

The comments all ask the same question — so what do you actually do instead? Meanwhile, the kids-app programs pitching you typically pay a one-time bounty on subscriptions that bill your audience every month.

Cosmo

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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 you decide what they're worth.

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Set the routine

You 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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You choose the reward

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

Earned, not handed over

The Kudo Coin — kids earn it, you 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 your kid on.

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

Every family starts free with the Space world and Cosmo — Premium unlocks the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras kids earn through their routines.

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Parenting creators in focus

How it lands in your feed.

Your content

Nothing needs your kids on camera

A real answer to the sharenting retreat — your voice and the app on screen carry the whole post, and there's no required script from us. You tell it your way.

What you'd actually film

The formats are already there

Dashboard walkthroughs, routine setups, the coin-economy explainer, and the free-vs-Premium breakdown — screen by screen, nothing to hide is the point.

Home — a real screen from the app

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Why this matters

Three kids you already know.

The kid who did it without being asked

Your own kid finishing something real — a task on the list, done and credited — and you notice you didn't have to say it three times.

Rossmann 2002, University of Minnesota: household tasks at three or four best predicted mid-twenties success. Small, correlational, about tasks in general.

You're handing them a routine, not an app

A kid with a predictable shape to the day — the same short sequence, same order, credit at the end. Not a screen; a rhythm they can anticipate.

Fiese et al. 2002, Journal of Family Psychology: fifty years of research links family routines to child adjustment, achievement and stronger family relationships.

A recommendation that can't betray them

Every child in your audience's households, not just yours — including the ones whose families would never have paid to find out whether it helps.

Hwang & Jeong 2016, Computers in Human Behavior: disclosure's credibility cost vanished when writers added the opinions were their own. Not legal advice.

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 two questions creators ask.

Q

Isn't "affiliate-only" just not paying me? My rate card starts with a flat fee.

Fair — and we don't pretend otherwise. This isn't a sponsored-post replacement; it's a recurring revenue line for your evergreen surfaces — link-in-bio, blog posts, newsletters. Approved partners also get a free Premium account for their own family and one-year Premium giveaway passes for their audience.

Q

My audience is exhausted by being sold to — won't a kids-app promo cost me followers?

The recommendation carries zero financial risk for families: they sign up directly and the core app is genuinely free — no trial cliff, nothing to buy to use it as described. When followers ask "what's the catch?", the honest answer is that there isn't one.

The math, plainly

You earn 20–25% of what your audience pays for Premium ($11.99/mo or $99/yr), recurring for 12 months and paid through Stripe Connect. 20% is the standard rate, scaling to 25% with referral volume. One $99 annual referral at 25% is $24.75 — more than the entire one-time bounty a typical kids-app program pays (published rates run about $2–20 per sale).

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Forward this

Three caption starters — say it your way.

You've heard me talk about screen-time guilt — KudoKids is what our family switched to: kids 3–12 earn their screen time by finishing real tasks and routines, and you decide what their Kudo Coins are worth.

The core app is genuinely free — the routines, the full library of games, and a first companion — so try it before you spend anything.

Full disclosure: my link is an affiliate link, so I earn a commission if you ever upgrade.

These are starters, not a script — swap in the exact wording that sounds like you; that's why your audience listens. Use the family line only once it's true for yours — your free Premium account is for exactly that. The disclosure travels with every post.

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Next step

Bring KudoKids to the families who follow you.

One 2-minute application. Approval comes with your free Premium family account and one-year giveaway passes — then 20–25% recurring commission for 12 months, paid through Stripe Connect. FTC disclosure is required on every post — we insist on it, because it protects you as much as it protects us.

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No ads, everNo child data sold Ages 3–12

Live in early access now on web, iOS, and Android. One honest boundary: channels directed at children can't join — this is a parent-facing program.

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