The between-session practice your clients will actually do.
A daily routine app for kids 3–12 where the child earns Kudo Coins for finishing what you and the parent set — positive reinforcement by default, no failure states, no ads, free for every family. The clinical-partner ethics paperwork is done before your first recommendation.
- Kids practice skills between sessions
- Positive reinforcement by default
- Free for every client
Clinical adjunct, not a clinical intervention or substitute for professional care. You remain responsible for state licensing board compliance on endorsements; the partner LOU references applicable ethics codes (NASW 1.06, APA 3.05, AMA 9.6.1).
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.
Before the program details: three things that change for the child, and what each one changes in your room.
The child had nowhere to practice
The child isn't refusing the plan. The plan asks a seven-year-old to remember it, unprompted, on a Tuesday, in a house with nothing holding it — and when that fails, it gets filed under resistance. Give the week a shape and the child gets to be someone who did the thing.
Why this works
When the week actually held something, the child walks in mid-thread instead of starting from zero, and the alliance builds on what the child did rather than on your reconstruction of it.
A free daily container for whatever you and the parent agreed on — the parent builds the routine, the child earns Kudo Coins for finishing it, and the parent decides what coins buy, including off-app device time the parent sets up with a countdown.
Reviewing home practice in childhood anxiety CBT, Klein and colleagues state the child-specific evidence plainly — “for children, studies are scarce, and the findings are mixed at best” — while arguing that game-like digital formats have “the potential” to improve adherence. The often-quoted 23-study finding that greater practice completion is associated with better outcomes (r = .26) rests on predominantly adult samples, and you should weigh it accordingly. Klein et al., 2024, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 27(2), 602–625; Mausbach et al., 2010, Cognitive Therapy and Research, 34(5), 429–438.View source →Something the child did themselves
A child in therapy spends most of it on the receiving end of adult plans — assessed, redirected, managed. A child who has been running her own routine all week arrives with something she did, not something that was done to her.
Why this works
The child stops being the subject of the session and starts being a participant in it, and you get to meet a version of them that is already competent at something.
A free system where the child holds real responsibilities and earns Kudo Coins for finishing them, plus a growing library of learning games that pay coins by score — so the competence is the child's own, not a sticker an adult handed over.
In a meta-analysis of 49 youth treatment studies, youth willingness to participate and youth participation in treatment were among the strongest relationship-variable predictors of outcome, ranked alongside counselor interpersonal skills and parent participation. That finding is about participation in treatment; KudoKids is not treatment and never substitutes for it — it gives a child something to bring to one. Karver et al., 2006, Clinical Psychology Review, 26(1), 50–65.View source →Words for it, on an ordinary day
Most children only get asked how they feel after something has gone wrong, which teaches them that naming a feeling is what happens when you're in trouble. A daily check-in that is never scored and never graded, where the companion just answers warmly, makes it an ordinary thing a child does on an ordinary Tuesday.
Why this works
The child meets you already fluent enough to say something, so the first ten minutes aren't spent building the vocabulary from scratch again.
Free — the daily check-in, a comfort flow afterward if the child wants it (breathing, a meditation, or just staying with the companion), and affirmations and meditations only in the categories the parent approved.
Across 116 independent samples of children and adolescents aged 2–18, emotion knowledge showed small-to-medium associations with social competence (r = .22) and inverse associations with internalizing and externalizing behavior problems (r = −.17 each). These are correlations, not causes. The KudoKids check-in is not assessment, screening, or a clinical measure — it asks daily and answers warmly. Trentacosta & Fine, 2010, Social Development, 19(1), 1–29.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.
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Everything that's in the app
KudoKids turns what you worked on in session into something the child practices daily at home: they earn Kudo Coins for finishing the routine, and the companion keeps it encouraging — positive reinforcement by default, no failure states, no automatic consequences. Every functional feature is free for families, so cost is never a barrier to recommending it.
The child earns it and keeps it — no failure states, no automatic consequences
The child earns coins for what they finish, and the companion stays warm when they don't — positive reinforcement by default. There are no automatic coin deductions, no failure states, and no punitive feedback. A missed task is simply a task not completed — the system applies no negative consequence. For families whose behavioral plan includes structured response cost, an optional parent-controlled demerit feature is available — off by default, capped, and gated behind a warmup period so it can't be used impulsively.
Daily practice at getting started, thinking ahead, and keeping track — across ages 3–12
Household routines give children daily practice at starting a task without being told twice, thinking a step ahead, and keeping track of what's left. KudoKids structures this across ages 3 through 12 using task templates organized by age — tasks matched to where a child actually is feel achievable, and consistency over time builds real confidence.
What partners receive, and how to start
Clients Practice Between Sessions
Every working part of KudoKids is free, so a family can start the day they walk out of your office — routines, coins, the games, the daily check-in, and the parent side, with nothing to buy.
No Financial Relationship, Ever
No commission, no revenue share, no referral fee, nothing for you to purchase, and no free product for you. You hold no interest in what you're recommending — so the recommendation is only ever about the child.
Recommend Without Second-Guessing
The Letter of Understanding is built around NASW 1.06, APA 3.05, and AMA 9.6.1 — the ethics paperwork is done before you make your first recommendation.
Listed in the Provider Directory
Approved clinical partners are listed on kudokids.org at no cost and with nothing asked in return — families looking for support in your area can find you.
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Early access means your clinical perspective goes directly into how the app develops for the families you serve.
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A Letter of Understanding (not a commercial agreement), the disclosure language to use when you recommend KudoKids, a referral link, and a professional listing on kudokids.org after admin approval. There is nothing for you to buy and no payment in either direction.
No — none, in either direction. Clinical partners earn no commission, no revenue share, and no referral fee, there is nothing for you to purchase, and we don't give you the product for free either. KudoKids is already free for the families you'd recommend it to. That structure is designed to be consistent with your professional ethics obligations, and it leaves nothing to disclose beyond the partnership itself — which the LOU asks you to disclose anyway.
Yes. The clinical partner LOU requires FTC point-of-endorsement disclosure every time you recommend KudoKids in a professional context — in patient handouts, verbal recommendations, or any promotional content. Disclosure language is provided for you in the partner portal.
Applications are reviewed within 3–5 business days. You'll receive an email when your application is approved. Once approved, you'll receive portal access to sign your Letter of Understanding digitally — no printing or mailing required.
No. KudoKids is a digital wellbeing platform and positive reinforcement app — not a clinical intervention and not a substitute for professional care. Recommend it as a clinical adjunct, not as a treatment.
No. KudoKids is completely free for families. Premium is optional — it unlocks the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras, plus KudoKids AI, a parent-side setup assistant kids can never talk to. Every feature that supports a child's routines, habits, and emotional growth is free.
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