Every Age is not another chart.

Pick one thing. Shoes. Teeth. The school bag. A thirty-second setup the night before, one sentence to say out loud, four taps to say how it went. After a week we compare those mornings to the two you started with, and say whether the reminders, the stepping in, and the conflict went down. If they did not, we say that.

For children roughly 4 to 10. A tool for the adult: no child ever opens it, and there are no child accounts.

Five routines

Which part of the day is hard

Every step is one small thing, in one routine, practised for a week. These are steps from the app.

• Morning

  One call, at the same time, and no second or third; clothes waiting on the chair, put on without an audience; a school bag packed by them, and not in the doorway by you.

• Evening

  Pyjamas on by themselves and the day's clothes in the basket, tomorrow's clothes chosen and laid out without being told, and the screens they have on the charger downstairs at the agreed time, without being chased.

• Homework

  The planner read first and what's due said out loud in one sentence, books out and started at the agreed time, and one thing tried before the question comes with the stuck bit named.

• Mealtimes

  Called once, and they walk to the table themselves; water poured from a small jug into their own cup; their plate and cup carried over once the chair goes back.

• Out the door

  Into their own seat and the buckle clicked by them, the same short goodbye every time, and the stretch from the school gate to their classroom walked without you.

• Pick one step.
• Say how it went.
• See what changed.

Looking ahead

The same conversation from four to ten

Once a year there is a different question: how many activities, how many hours, and how would you know it is too much. Looking ahead answers it for the age your child is now, and shows you the years on either side.

Nobody knows the right number of activities and we will not pretend otherwise. What the app can describe is the shape of a week if they want one, the signs a parent would actually notice when the week is too full, and the one hard edge worth holding: hours a week in a single activity should not go past the child's age in years. That is a limit rather than a target. Sitting at none is still a complete week, and this is not a schedule you have to follow.

What this is based on

Written in-house, and said plainly

The steps and the numbers are our own work, written and checked in-house by the people who make this app. It is not clinical guidance, it has not been trialled, and nobody outside our team has reviewed it. Where a routine sits close to health, the app says so on the screen and points you at your doctor.

It makes no claim about what any child should be able to do at any age, and it is not medical, psychological, or educational advice. It does not assess or identify anything.

No points, no streaks, no stars, no badges, no confetti. A celebration animation at 6:45am on a hard morning is an insult, so there is not one anywhere in this app. A missed morning is a missed morning: nothing is lost, nothing is taken away, and the app never frames your child as a problem. One reminder a day, at the hour you said your routine starts, and that is the only notification it sends.

Pricing

Free to download

Your first completed week of practice is free. Continuing costs $39.99 a year, and it renews each year until you cancel in Settings. Apple handles the billing.

Your data is yours. Export it or delete your account from inside the app, without contacting anyone.