A daily practice for parents who want to notice more of the good. Read the blog, get free conversation cards, or try the KindCoin app.
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We teach kids to brush their teeth. To do their homework. To clean their rooms.
But who teaches them to be kind when no one is watching? To manage frustration without a meltdown? To lead with empathy instead of ego?
Good emotional habits are the most important thing a child can develop. And yet most families have no way to practice them together — let alone reward them.
There's no shortage of apps for families. Most of them track chores or screen time. I wanted to make something different — something that helped families practice noticing each other.
I'd watched my own grandkids slip into the rhythm most siblings do: small irritations, scorekeeping, who got more, who got away with what. The harder I tried to correct it, the more I was naming the things going wrong. I wanted a way to name what was going right instead.
So I built KindCoin. First for my own grandchildren. Now for whoever else wants to try it.
Choose from our library of age-appropriate behaviors — like "I used kind words today" or "I took a deep breath when I was upset." Assign them to each child and set KindCoin values.
Takes 5 minutesEach day, your child taps the behaviors they practiced and writes a short reflection — what happened, how they handled it. It takes 2 minutes and becomes the best part of their day.
2 minutes a dayYou get notified, read their reflection, and approve their KindCoins with one tap. Write back. Start a conversation you might never have had otherwise. Character becomes currency.
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One app. Every child. Every behavior. Every conversation.
Age-appropriate habits for ages 4 to 12 — kindness, empathy, self-regulation and more.
Kids write what happened. Parents write back. A private daily values conversation.
Parents award spontaneous bonus KindCoins for extraordinary moments of kindness.
Daily streaks that build lasting habits and keep kids coming back.
Earn the Peacemaker, Kind Leader, and Empathy badges tied to real behaviors.
Kids set savings goals and work toward rewards — learning delayed gratification.
Every Sunday, a digest of each child's growth, streaks, and standout moments.
Instant alerts if your child shares something that needs your immediate attention.
From Mimi's kitchen table
For parents and grandparents who want more than "fine" at dinner. A printable PDF — use one card tonight, or keep the deck on your phone.
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Real thoughts on building good habits at home.
A rubber band holds things together — until it's pulled back and aimed. How the tension we carry can bind a family, or wound the ones we love the most.
The child we knew a year ago isn't exactly the one in front of us. Keeping up with kids means noticing who they're becoming — not who they were.
Favorite cereal: we know it. The birthday party of forty that melted them down: do we? Knowing what stresses a child changes how we respond.
A slammed backpack. A dinner gone quiet. A tear from nowhere. Children hand us their day in fragments — the work is learning to read the clues.
We fill our coffee cups first thing. What if the morning also filled theirs — one small question over breakfast instead of another hurry up?
"All feelings are welcome. All behaviors are not." Think of the car radio dial: some feelings we turn up. Some we slowly learn to turn down.
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