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ADHD & autism parent community leaders · KudoKids partner brief

Every reward chart your families try dies by week two.

The chart works for a day or two, then the whole thing runs on one exhausted parent's consistency. And your members keep asking you what actually lasts.

Cosmo

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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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Your community in focus

How it lands in your members' homes.

Structure that doesn't run on you

The parent stops being the system

Kids earn Kudo Coins for finishing the routines their parent sets — the app carries the reminders, the visible progress, and the immediate payoff, so the parent is no longer the single point of failure.

What you can see

See what they're up to

The parent dashboard shows what kids are earning, playing, and learning — now including drawing and short exercises their companion guides them through: breathing, squeeze-and-release, and animal moves, each read aloud so nothing depends on reading.

Honest limits: token systems don't fit every kid — for some demand-avoidant profiles, rewards read as demands. This is one tool for families where a token economy fits, not a prescription for all — the parent sets every dial, and we make no clinical or outcome claims.

Routines — a real screen from the app

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Why this matters

Three kids you already know.

The kid who finishes

There's a feeling this kid doesn't get often enough: done. Not a half-finished chart nobody updated — finished, it counted, and something happened because of it.

Luman, Oosterlaan & Sergeant 2005, Clinical Psychology Review — across 22 studies (N = 1,181 children), reinforcement had a positive impact on task performance and motivation in children with ADHD. Lab and task studies about why immediacy matters, not a finding about this app.

When later isn't real

Ask this kid to work for something on Saturday and you're asking her to believe in a thing that doesn't exist yet. That isn't defiance, and it isn't a character flaw.

Jackson & MacKillop 2016, Biological Psychiatry: CNNI — across 25 case-control comparisons (N = 3,913), people with ADHD devalued delayed rewards more steeply than comparison participants. A group-level finding spanning ages, never a description of any one child.

Asked, not graded

Most questions this kid gets asked are assessments wearing a friendly voice. A check-in that is never scored and never graded is a rare thing: the answer is just the answer.

Leadbitter, Buckle, Ellis & Dekker 2021, Frontiers in Psychology — argues autism practice should set goals around what autistic people themselves prioritise rather than around compliance. A critique of reward systems we think applies to ours: a coin-for-task system reads as pressure for some kids.

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 community leaders ask.

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Isn't this another gamified app that dies after a few weeks?

Novelty risk is real for every app, and we don't claim immunity. What's different is where the loop points: kids earn Kudo Coins through real-world routines and spend them on rewards the parent curates — including off-app device time — not only in-app extras. Twenty companions and a growing library of games give the earn side room to stay interesting, and the free plan means testing it costs a family nothing.

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Isn't more screen time the last thing my members need?

The earning happens off-screen — routines, tasks, real-world responsibilities — and parents can make off-app device time the very thing coins buy, on their terms. It is still an app, with a growing library of games; we say that plainly and let the way kids earn speak for itself.

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Forward this

Three sentences you can paste into a group post.

KudoKids is a free app where kids earn Kudo Coins for finishing the routines you set, and you decide what the coins buy — including their screen time.

I have no financial relationship with it — I'm sharing it because it's free for every family, kids never see ads, and the parent stays in charge of every dial.

If earning has ever worked for your kid, this one runs itself — and the parent dashboard shows you the week at a glance, so you have something concrete to talk about at your next appointment.

Try it with your own kid first — if it holds up, swap in the exact wording that fits how you talk to your group, your meeting room, or your newsletter readers.

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Next step

Bring KudoKids to the families in your community.

One 2-minute application. No cost to you, and no cost to your families — community partners get no commission, no kickback, nothing to disclose.

kudokids.org/partners/join

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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