Partner brief

Child therapists & play therapists · KudoKids partner brief

The breakthrough is in session. The week is at home.

You get 50 minutes; the week gets the other 167 hours. The plan that works in session goes home on printables and memory — and you don't see the week until the family is back in your office.

Cosmo

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What it is

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

Live 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 adds the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras kids earn through their routines, plus KudoKids AI, a parent-only assistant — never a wall in front of the learning. Premium on the web: $11.99/month or $99.99/year (app-store prices may differ).

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How it works

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

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Parents set the routine

They 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

A full roster of companions, each one cheering the child on.

These are the faces of KudoKids. Every companion has its own personality — and thousands of sayings that guide, encourage, and celebrate the 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, plus KudoKids AI, a parent-only assistant.

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Child therapists in focus

How it lands in the week between sessions.

Between sessions

The home half of the plan, running itself

Parents build routines around your session goals and kids earn Kudo Coins for doing them daily — while a built-in mood check-in gives kids everyday practice naming how they feel. KudoKids never enters the playroom; it lives on the parent-consultation side of the work.

What parents can bring to your check-in

See what they're up to

The parent dashboard shows what kids are earning, playing, and learning, and the parent brings it to your next consultation in their own words — you never hold family data, a privacy feature, not a gap. Kids also get drawing and short companion-guided exercises: everyday skill practice, never therapy.

Mood check-in — a real screen from the app

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Why this matters

Three kids you already know.

The child had nowhere to practice

The child isn't refusing the plan. It asks a seven-year-old to remember it, unprompted, on a Tuesday, in a house with nothing holding it. Give the week a shape.

Klein et al. 2024, Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev: child home-practice evidence is scarce and mixed; game-like digital formats may help adherence.

Something the child did themselves

A child in therapy spends most of it on the receiving end of adult plans. One who's run her own routine all week arrives with something she did.

Karver et al. 2006, Clinical Psychology Review: across 49 youth studies, a child's own participation ranked among the strongest predictors of outcome.

Words for it, on an ordinary day

Most children only get asked how they feel after something has gone wrong — so naming a feeling becomes what happens when you're in trouble. A daily check-in makes it ordinary.

Trentacosta & Fine 2010, Social Development: across 116 child samples, emotion knowledge showed small-to-medium associations with social competence. Correlational.

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.

We never show ads in the app

No banners, no ad breaks. YouTube or sites a parent allows can show their own.

Friends, only if you want them

Friends stay off until you turn them on, and you choose how new friends are approved.

No child data sold

We never sell children's data. Ever.

Parents stay in charge

From the parent dashboard, you approve rewards and set screen time.

No ads*No child data sold Ages 3–12

*ads can be shown via the YouTube and web browser features if a parent turns them on.

Recommended by child-development experts.

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Honest answers

The first two questions therapists ask.

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Screens are half of what families come to me about — why would I add one?

KudoKids is the screen-time companion that slows kids down instead of speeding them up: they earn what they get by finishing real-world routines, and parents can make off-app device time the very thing that effort buys. Everything else on a screen is instant; here a kid works for it. It is still an app with a growing library of games; we say that plainly, and let the way kids earn — in an app that never shows ads — speak for itself.

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Is this a validated intervention? Can I recommend it as a treatment?

No — and we say so plainly. KudoKids is a clinical adjunct, not a clinical intervention, and it makes no outcome claims. You own the treatment plan; KudoKids is the home structure that keeps it alive between appointments. Families sign up directly, and everything a family needs is free.

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Forward this

Three sentences you can paste to a family.

First, the terms behind them: clinical partners have no financial relationship with KudoKids of any kind. The Letter of Understanding is built around the conflict-of-interest rules of your own profession’s ethics code, and FTC point-of-endorsement disclosure language is provided — the ethics paperwork is done before your first recommendation.

This is a free app that gives what we work on in session a daily home — your child earns Kudo Coins for the routines you set, and you decide what the coins buy, including screen time.

I'm a KudoKids clinical partner, which means I recommend it with no financial relationship of any kind — I suggest it because the parent stays in charge and everything a family needs is free.

If you export the week's progress from the parent dashboard, bring it to our next parent check-in and we'll build on what's actually happening at home.

Swap in wording that fits how you talk to your families or colleagues.

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Next step

Bring KudoKids to the families on your caseload.

One 2-minute application, reviewed in 3–5 business days — then you sign the Letter of Understanding digitally. No cost to you, and no cost to the families you recommend it to.

kudokids.org/partners/join

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Apply now → kudokids.org/partners/join

No ads*No child data sold Ages 3–12

*ads can be shown via the YouTube and web browser features if a parent turns them on.

Live now on the web, iOS, and Android. Recommended by child-development experts.

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