Your classroom system works. Then they go home.
Routines followed, feelings named, effort rewarded — then the bell rings and it resets. KudoKids is safe screen time for kids 3–12 that instills growth: a free family resource you can forward — nothing you have to roster, buy, or run past legal.
- Share it, don't adopt it
- No roster · no student data · nothing to sign
- Free for every family
Tasks, Coins, Games — That's the Loop
Parents set routines and tasks
Chores, reading goals, wellness habits — configured once.
Kids earn Kudo Coins
Completed tasks earn coins. Educational games earn them back.
Screen time self-regulates
Fun games cost coins. No timers, no fights — kids budget themselves.
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Free plan available for families — tasks, games, wellness tools, and the parent dashboard cost nothing.
You can already picture these three kids — here's the one thing you can hand their families.
The kid who unravels by Monday
You have a child who is steady in your room — the routine holds him, he knows what earning something feels like, he's proud of himself by Friday. Monday he's back having lost all of it, because nothing at home was holding the same shape.
Why this works
When a family runs the same loop you run, the parent stops arriving at your table braced for a list of problems and starts arriving as the other person working on the same child.
You can hand that family the whole loop for free — real routines and responsibilities, coins the child earns by finishing them, and a parent who decides what those coins buy, including off-app device time with a countdown. The parent runs it at home; there's nothing for you to set up, monitor, or see.
In a randomized trial across 45 rural schools, teachers whose families joined a shared home-and-school behavior plan reported substantially improved relationships with those parents. Sheridan et al. (2017), Journal of School Psychology.View source →No words for it yet
The child who comes apart at ten in the morning and genuinely cannot tell you what happened. Not withholding — just not yet able to name the thing that's happening inside him.
Why this works
When a child starts arriving with language for his own state, your conversation with his parent stops being "he's disruptive" and becomes two adults comparing notes on the same kid.
A daily check-in at home where the companion answers warmly and a comfort flow follows — breathing, a meditation, or just staying with the companion. It is never scored and never graded, it produces no result of any kind, and nothing from it is ever sent to you or to the school.
Following 72 children from age 5 to age 9, the ability to recognize and name emotions at 5 predicted social behavior and academic competence at 9. Izard et al. (2001), Psychological Science — a small correlational sample.View source →Arrives without a morning
The child who turns up late, unfed, and already behind. Not neglect — there's simply no shape to the evening or the morning, and a five-year-old can't build one for himself.
Why this works
In September you get to be the teacher who handed the family something they could start that night, so the first conversation of the year is a recommendation instead of a complaint.
The routine itself, free: the parent sets the real tasks and responsibilities, the child earns Kudo Coins for finishing them, the parent chooses which ones need a sign-off before they pay out, and it repeats without anyone inventing a chart.
In a national birth-cohort study of 3,250 children, family routines in the preschool years — bedtime, reading, and the like — predicted stronger school-readiness indicators at the kindergarten transition. Ferretti & Bub (2017), Early Education and Development.View source →
These citations are the research behind how KudoKids is designed. The researchers and institutions named have not endorsed or evaluated KudoKids, and we make no claim about results for children who use it.
Apply as a teacher or school leader
Apply in two minutes to get your safety facts sheet, a printable handout, and the pre-written paragraph to share. You'll sign a short Letter of Understanding — nothing of value changes hands, there's no financial relationship, and nothing to disclose.
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Everything a careful reader wants to check, without cluttering the page for one who doesn't.
Everything that's in the app
Parents keep asking you how to keep the classroom system going at home, and you've never had anything to hand them. KudoKids is that hand-off: a free family resource you forward in a newsletter or mention at conferences — never a platform you adopt, roster, or maintain.
The routines you build by 3pm, finally still standing at 7am
Conferences fill with parents asking why the classroom system works but home is chaos. KudoKids gives you the answer you've never had to hand over: at home, kids earn Kudo Coins for finishing real routines and responsibilities, and a daily check-in gives them words for how they feel — the same language you use in class. Parents decide what the coins buy, including off-app screen time they configure, so screen time earns its place instead of just holding attention.
A resource you share — not a program you adopt
There's nothing for you to roster, purchase, train on, or run past legal. Families create their own accounts directly at kudokids.org — you upload nothing and sign nothing, so it stays a personal recommendation, never your school's official endorsement. And because the full core is free for every family, recommending it never creates a classroom of haves and have-nots.
What partners receive, and how to start
A One-Page Safety Facts Sheet
Plain-language answers to every screen-time question a parent asks — ready for your file and ready to forward.
Nothing to Disclose
The educator track has no financial relationship with KudoKids — no affiliate link, no commission. It stays a personal recommendation, never a sales channel.
A Ready-Made Newsletter Handout
A printable, brand-clean handout plus the pre-written paragraph you can paste into a newsletter or hand out at conferences.
A Partner Listing
Get listed as a KudoKids educator partner — recognition for the families you help, with nothing to buy or maintain.
Reach the Founding Team
Questions from the classroom get a real human on the founding team, not a support queue.
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2-minute form.
Get Your Materials
Receive your Letter of Understanding and the materials to share.
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Introduce KudoKids to the families you work with.
Common Questions
Your district's policy governs, but there's nothing to be compensated for. We never pay educators, and educators are never asked to sell anything — the core app is free for families, so sharing it is structured like sharing a book list, not a business relationship with families under your authority. A recommendation is yours personally, never your school's official endorsement. A school can separately decide to fund KudoKids for every family in its community (kudokids.org/partners/schools); that's the institution's purchase, not yours, and nothing about your track changes if it happens.
Free Explorer includes everything a child needs to use the app fully — routines, the full library of games, wellness tools, the parent dashboard, and the first companion, Cosmo. Premium only adds the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras, plus KudoKids AI, the parent-side setup assistant. No ads are shown to kids anywhere, so there's no in-app pressure campaign to trigger — and no classroom split between families who can pay and families who can't.
It never touches student data. When you share it there's no school integration at all: families create their own accounts at home, and you upload nothing and sign nothing. Recommending it is closer to recommending a library card than adopting a platform.
It isn't a program — there's no setup, no training, and no account for you to manage. The whole lift is forwarding one paragraph we've already written, in a newsletter or at conference time. The dashboard belongs to the parent, not you.
Honest answer: it's live in early access now on web, iOS, and Android, and it's recommended by child-development experts. It's founder-funded, with no VC. The best test is to open it yourself the way a parent would — two minutes, free, no card — before you pass it on.
No. The rule is simple: we never pay educators, and educators never sell. No commission, no tracking link, no swag-for-promotion, nothing you're asked to sell. You get a genuinely free resource and a pre-written paragraph to share only if it's useful to a family who asks. That's the opposite of an ambassador program.
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