Designed to work in conjunction with the Thumsters Parenting App, this feature is not just an add on... it's a pathway to enhancing your child's personal growth and cultivating enduring, self-led positive habits. By bridging the gap between parents and children, Thumsters Kids ensures lasting outcomes and strengthens familial bonds.
Thumsters kids view is a key to empowering your kids growth and development in the area of behavior and positive decision making. It's designed not just to engage but to educate, teaching crucial life skills like responsibility, communication, goal-setting, and accountability in an intuitive, child-friendly interface. It fosters independence in children as they manage their own goals and rewards, while also strengthening the parent-child bond through shared objectives and achievements.
The emotions tracker encourages children daily to take a moment to reflect on their emotions from a range of emotion ‘faces’ loaded into the app, each associated with descriptive emotion words. This gives kids an opportunity to stop and intentionally give thought to how they have felt throughout the day, and helps them learn to identify and articulate their feelings, promoting self-awareness and emotional intelligence. Once an emotion is logged, parents receive a notification, inviting an opportunity to talk to their child about their day, their celebrations, or their struggles or areas they may need support.
Other features included in the kids view:
Motivation through Reward: Children see tangible outcomes for achieving goals, boosting long-term positive behavior. What begins as as an 'extrinsic' motivation (doing something out of external motivation), quickly becomes 'intrinsic' motivation by cultivating a healthy behavior habit through repetition.
Ownership of Progress: The Kids View lets kids track their goals and contributions, fostering responsibility and accountability.
User-Friendly Design: Tailored for young users, the interface is intuitive and easy to navigate.
Thumb Bank Feature: Kids can save or spend thumbs received on the goals set with carers, enhancing their understanding and ownership of saving and goal-setting.
To access the Kids View screen: Press the Kids View Icon, the last icon down the bottom of the screen.
The Kids View is a feature of Thumsters Plus. If you are not a Thumsters Plus user you will need to sign up by following the instructions on the gold screen that appears when you press on the kids view icon (The last icon down the bottom of the home screen).
Kids view PASSWORD: Yes your child can set their own password! We are all parents.... so we like to anticipate any sticky 'sibling' situations.... such as going into each others accounts. ;)
To set your child's unque password in the parents view, click on the settings icon (top right hand corner cog). Down the very bottom of the screen is the 'Kid Passwords' tile. Click on the child you wish to set a password for. Select a colour with your child, then a shape. Once chosen click on the Create Password button.You will see the chosen password on the next screen next to your child's name (this will be a reminder should they ever forget!)
In the kids view your child will be able to see the emotions tracker, their Thumb Bank, Their streak count tile (how many days in a row they've received a thumbs up), their goals/rewards tile, and the timeline.
Spending thumb bucks in the kids view screen: When your child would like to spend some of his thumb bucks, click on the thumb buck tile. In the banks screen they will see all the current goals they are working towards. They can allocate a thumb buck to a goal by clicking on the goal. If they want to undo an action, they click on the undo arrow (bottom left of screen). Once they have finished allocating thumbs, press the Lock in thumbucks button at the botton of the screen.
If they have added enough thumbs to achieve a goal, the goal achieved screen will pop up. This shows: number of thumbs it took to achieve the goal, number of days it took to achieve the goal. Unlike the goal achieved screen in the parents view there is no option to 'Award Now'. This is to prevent kids accidentally hitting the button and having their achieved goals disappear from the app. Devastating!!