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, develop emotive language, and grow in self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
Once an emotion is logged, parents receive a push notification, giving them an opportunity to talk to their child about their day, celebrate positive moments, or share their struggles or areas they may need support. To receive these emotion-tracker push notifications please make sure you have push notifications turned on. You can do this by going into the settings in the parents view > notifications > Notifications Settings > follow Apple's prompts.
As always we are all about creating healthy habits via positive reinforcement and so the first emotion logged for the day receives a thumbs up which is automatically sent to the bank. However we know that emotions change throughout the day with different events and interactions and so kids can log as many emotions as they need. Only the first emotion gets a thumb so that what is meant as motivation to increase emotional awareness doesn't become a 'hack' to receive many thumbs. ;).
If you don't want your child to get a thumbs up for tracking their first emotion of the day, you can turn this 'Emotions Tracker thumbs-up' off in the settings in the parents view by going to settings > disable daily emotion thumb. Your chid will still be able to choose/log a daily emotion however they will not receive a thumbs up/thumb buck for doing so.
The Emotions Tracker is a supplement, not a substitute for parent-child check ins. It is meant as a prompt to check in in-person with your child and create intentional conversation around their mental-health.
To use the Emotions Tracker, have your child log into Kids Mode in their account, select from the range of emotion faces available, and then pick a corresponding emotion description word. For children who don't yet read, they can press on each word to hear it spoken (phone sound must be on and volume up). When they have pressed on the emotion that best describes how they feel they can hit the large submit button down the bottom of the page. If push notifications are turned on to the carers' Thumsters accounts, they will receive a notification showing which child and which emotion was tracked. This can also be found in each child's dashboard screen on the feed for Thumsters Plus users, and on the report tile on the same dashboard.