EMOTIONAL WELLNESS

Big Feelings Get Smaller Once They Have Names

Your child learns to say what's going on inside — and to calm down on their own. KudoKids builds it into every day with mood check-ins, guided meditations, and affirmations, inside the app they already love. Every switch stays yours.

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KudoKids Mood Check-In screen — a child taps an emotion picker while their companion looks on.

Please note:KudoKids wellness features are designed for everyday emotional skill-building and are not a substitute for professional mental health support. If you have concerns about your child’s mental health, please consult a qualified healthcare provider.

Emotional Skill-Building That Fits Into Daily Life

Mood tracking, meditation, and affirmation tools that help kids name how they feel, calm down on their own, and build confidence — built for kids, woven into the app they already love.

Words They Start Believing

190+ affirmation phrases with preschooler, child, and preteen wording. Their companion says each one aloud, your child says it back — and the phrases lean toward the growth areas you've chosen for them.

A Calm They Can Get To Alone

Guided meditations across 5 types — Calm, Focus, Kindness, Sleep, and Cool Off — matched to your child's age, plus family sessions to do together. Their companion narrates over ambient music and breathing cues.

You See the Rough Patch Early

A daily mood picker that fits their age — 6 core feelings for younger kids, growing to a 17-feeling vocabulary. You see the check-ins day by day, week or month at a time, plus pattern-based notices — informational, never diagnostic.

Noah's Bedtime Breathing

Nine nights in one family, and the night the coins stopped being the reason.

Noah is 8 and has always had trouble settling down at night. He lies in bed thinking about school, about whether his friends are mad at him, about a test on Friday.

His mom adds a “Calm Breathing” wellness task to his bedtime routine. It’s worth 2 coins — small, but it appears in his task list alongside brush teeth (2), floss (2), and pick out clothes (3).

Night 1: Noah taps “Start Meditation” because he wants to complete his full routine and protect his 4-day streak. The session is a few minutes long — a gentle voice, his own companion’s, walking him through slow breaths and a calm picture in his head. He thinks it’s dumb but lies still because 2 coins.

Night 3: He does the meditation before his mom reminds him. He tells her the breathing part is “kinda nice.”

Night 9: Noah has a rough evening — lost his soccer game, fought with his sister. He opens the meditation on his own. Not for the coins. Because it’s the part of his day where things feel quiet.

The 2 coins got him started. The habit kept him going. That’s the whole design.

AFFIRMATION PRACTICE

190+ Phrases Your Child's Companion Speaks Aloud

Inside an Affirmation Session

What your child hears, what they say back, and how the phrases get picked.

Each session is a short set of phrases picked for your child. Their companion says the affirmation aloud in its own voice, your child says it back, then taps to keep going — and the session ends on a little celebration and a word of encouragement.

190+ phrases with preschooler/child/preteen wording
Phrase choice leans toward the growth areas you set for your child
After a setback, phrases turn encouraging and self-kind
Companion speaks each phrase aloud; your child repeats it
Add to a routine as a parent-assigned task with a coin reward of your choosing

An affirmation session — Cosmo the astronaut kid floating above the phrase 'Every day I learn something new' with a Listen button. — Their companion says it first — then they say it back

Integrates Into Your Child's Routines

Affirmation practice can sit in a routine like any other task, at a coin value you set.

Parents can add affirmation practice as a task inside any routine — giving it a Kudo Coin value just like any other task. It appears on the Earn screen alongside daily tasks, making wellness a natural part of their day rather than something separate they have to remember.

See the Full Affirmation Library

These are the actual affirmations your child's companion will speak aloud — 190+ phrases across categories and age groups, all browsable right here.

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GUIDED MEDITATION

39 Sessions — Matched to Their Age

About ten sessions per age tier across 5 types, plus family sessions to do together — and even a parent set for you.

What's Inside a Session

Three layers of audio, five types, and how the right one gets suggested.

Every meditation session combines three audio layers: companion narration (your child’s chosen companion guides the session), type-specific ambient music with appropriate BPM, and breathing cues that pace the experience. A recommendation engine suggests the right session based on growth areas, context, session history, age-appropriate complexity, and the meditation types you’ve approved.

KudoKids meditation player on iPad showing a guided session with companion narration and breathing visuals.

Calm

Slow breathing, body relaxation, peaceful imagery

Focus

Attention training, mindful awareness, concentration

Kindness

Gratitude, compassion, loving-kindness practices

Sleep

Progressive relaxation, calming stories, wind-down

Cool Off

Guided breathing exercises, cool-off sessions, reset pacing

Suggestions based on growth areas, session history, and age
Offline support on the iOS and Android apps
Add to a routine as a parent-assigned task to give it a coin reward
Calm-paced ambient music matched to each meditation type

How Long Sessions Run by Age

About one to three minutes for the youngest, up to about eight for the oldest.

Younger Kids

About 1-3 Minutes

Short breathing buddies with simple inhale-exhale patterns and comforting imagery.

Middle Kids

About 3-5 Minutes

Breathing exercises, body scans, and guided visualization matched to their theme.

Older Kids

About 5-8 Minutes

Progressive relaxation, mindful awareness, and focused attention for growing maturity.

LET IT GO

Somewhere to Put a Big Feeling Down

When a big feeling shows up, kids can draw it — then choose to burn it, melt it, or launch it into space. Nothing to finish, nothing to score.

How a Drawing Ends

Three ways to end it — and why this one earns no coins.

Burn it

The drawing catches and turns to ash.

Melt it

The colors run and drip away.

Send it to space

The whole picture launches upward and off the screen.

Whichever they pick, the canvas clears and a card tells them the feeling can float away now. It’s a small ritual, and it’s meant to stay small — a way to get a feeling out of a body and onto a screen and then out of the way, without anyone asking them to explain it first.

It earns no Kudo Coins, on purpose. Everything else here can carry a coin value you set; this one can’t. A child in a hard moment shouldn’t be doing it for a payout, and a feeling shouldn’t turn into a way to earn.

Kids can open it themselves from the Create tab, and it’s offered as one of the choices after a tough mood check-in.

EMOTIONAL CHECK-INS

Daily Mood Tracking That Meets Kids Where They Are

KudoKids Wellness Activity view on iPad — a child's emotion check-ins grouped by day across the week. — The Wellness Activity view: what they felt, when — without an interrogation

How It Works for Your Child

The picker grows with them — six core feelings for the youngest, seventeen once they're ready.

Your child's companion greets them and asks how they're feeling. The emotion picker meets your child where they are developmentally — younger kids see a focused set of core feelings, while older kids unlock a wider vocabulary as their emotional awareness grows. The companion responds warmly to every emotion — not just happy ones — so kids learn that all feelings are okay to share.

Younger Kids (ages 3–5)

6 Core Emotions

Happy, sad, angry, scared, silly, and tired. A short, focused set so little ones aren't overwhelmed by too many choices — the right starting vocabulary for learning to name how they feel.

Older Kids (ages 6+)

Full 17-Emotion Picker

The core six expand to include excited, loved, calm, worried, grateful, proud, brave, relieved, confused, nervous, and frustrated — giving older kids the richer vocabulary they need to put words to more nuanced feelings.

The age-tiered split is intentional: too many choices can overwhelm a 4-year-old, while a 10-year-old benefits from naming the difference between “nervous” and “scared.”

Each confirmed check-in earns 2 Kudo Coins (up to 3 per day by default — parents can adjust). The reward is for the habit of checking in, never for the emotion reported. After check-in, kids who report a low mood see a comfort flow with breathing, meditation, drawing the feeling out, or simply staying with their companion.

KudoKids child emotion check-in screen with the age-appropriate emotion picker and the child's 3D companion greeting them.

What Parents See

Day by day, what they reported and when — without making them explain it.

The Wellness Activity view groups your child’s check-ins by day so you can see what they reported and when — without making them explain themselves. Tap any emotion to open a plain-language guide for parents on what that feeling can mean and how to support it. You can also add a private context note (“What was happening?”) to any entry.

Day-by-day check-in log with timestamps
Tap any emotion for a parent-facing guide
Check-in streak tracking with milestone celebrations
Private context annotations on any entry

Pattern-Based Parent Notices

What raises a notice on your dashboard — and what a notice is not.

When the same pattern shows up across several days of check-ins, KudoKids surfaces a notice on your dashboard so you can start a conversation. Notices are informational only — never diagnostic, never a substitute for professional guidance.

Prolonged Low Mood

Five or more low-mood days in a row raises a notice — and it steps up if the stretch continues.

Sudden Change

A sharp drop from their own recent average raises a notice the same day.

Withdrawal Pattern

Repeated low moods alongside a big drop-off in task activity raises a concern-level notice.

Privacy & COPPA Compliance

Emotional check-ins are parent-controlled: a family-wide switch turns them off entirely, each day’s check-in is always optional for the child, data collection is pausable at any time, and full deletion is available on request. No mood data is shared externally. Check-ins are self-reported taps (not biometric data), so they are not impacted by the 2025 COPPA expanded biometric definition. All emotions are treated equally — there are no rewards for reporting “happy,” so kids have no reason to mask.

Built Into Every Wellness Activity

Four things every wellness activity shares — starting with the switch that turns it off.

Every Switch Is Yours

Family-wide toggles turn meditations, affirmations, or check-ins off for everyone — and meditations and affirmations can also be set per child, down to which meditation types and affirmation categories are approved.

Kudo Coin Integration

Add any wellness activity to a routine as a parent-assigned task. You set the Kudo Coin value — encouraging participation without the app deciding how much wellness is worth.

Companion Integration

Your child’s companion participates in wellness activities with expression changes that respond to their engagement and emotional state.

Age-Appropriate Content

Affirmation phrasing and meditation length each adapt to your child’s age — shorter sessions and simpler language for younger kids, fuller scripts for older ones.

Built With Practitioner Input

KudoKids wellness features are shaped by working with child-development experts.

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KudoKids wellness features are designed for general enrichment and everyday emotional skill-building. They are not intended as medical treatment, therapy, or a substitute for professional medical or mental health care.

Give Your Child the Tools to Thrive

Mood check-ins, meditations, affirmations, and everyday emotional skill-building — built into the app your child already loves.

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