Pick a skill your child doesn't have yet — falling asleep alone, leaving the park without a fight, getting dressed, using the potty. We break it into small steps, find the one they're already on, and give you one short activity a day with the words to say.
Skill Sprouts isn't here to give you a longer to-do list. There is nothing to tick off and no streak to protect. There is one thing to teach, broken small enough that today's piece takes three minutes — and a record of what your child can do now that they couldn't a month ago. Small steps. Soft landings. A little bit of memory keeping.
— with love, the Skill Sprouts team
Each plan is one skill your child doesn't have yet, broken into an ordered ladder of steps. We find the rung they're already on, then give you a single short activity a day — with the words to say — and move up only once they've done a step unaided twice.
No guilt loops. No notification bombardment. No streak to break. Just one short activity a day and a ladder that only ever moves up.
Tie their shoes, use the potty, fall asleep alone, leave the park calmly — one skill at a time.
A quick check finds the rung they can already do, so nothing you practise is busywork.
Two good runs and the step is theirs. A hard one just makes tomorrow easier. Miss a day and nothing is lost.
A daily prompt — different every day, always about your kid — and a place to write two sentences. That's it. No baby book guilt. No scrapbooking weekend. Just little moments, saved.
Six months from now, on the day you forget your kid said "mommy you're my best friend" — it'll be in here. We promise.
She got so frustrated trying to tie her shoes — but instead of melting down, she took a big breath and said "I need a minute." Where did she even learn that? Maya's mom · May 19
I deleted three other parenting apps because they made me feel like a project manager. Skill Sprouts feels like a friend texting me reminders. The two-minute thing actually works.S
The journal is what got me. Six months in I have 80 entries I would have completely forgotten otherwise. One sentence at bedtime. That's all it takes.D
As a child therapist, I recommend this to half my families. Breaking a skill into rungs is exactly how we teach — and the tone never shames. Rare combo.N
No red badges. No "you missed yesterday" shame spiral. Skip a day, skip a week — your sprout just naps and waits for you. The whole point is to lower the stakes, not raise them.
Each plan breaks one skill into rungs small enough that the next is genuinely within reach — the same task-analysis approach used in early-years teaching and occupational therapy. The tone and the scripts come from modern gentle-parenting research: Dr. Becky, Dr. Markham, Hand in Hand Parenting, and the broader connection-based literature. Warm, simple, and doable on a chaotic Tuesday morning. No flashcard nonsense.
Yes. Each child gets their own profile, sprout, plans, and journal. Switch between them with a tap. Co-parent sharing is coming soon — so both adults can stay in sync.
We're on iOS and Android — same features, same prices. Web version is coming.
Technically, yes — but we don't. Your notes are stored encrypted on our servers, and your private key is also stored there so your content stays accessible across all your devices. That means we have the ability to decrypt your data, but we have a strict policy of never accessing user content. It's the same trust model as most cloud services.
No — all photos live on your device, because we care about privacy. If you switch devices, we're working on a feature to restore those photos on the new one.
Yes. No emails to send, no "are you sure" loops. Where you cancel depends on where you subscribed — see the next question. The free tier stays free for as long as you want it.
Wherever you bought it is where you manage it. That's the rule the app stores enforce, and it means we can't change or cancel a store subscription on your behalf from our side.
Not sure which one you used? Start at the billing portal — sign in with the same email or Google account you subscribed with, and it will either open your Stripe billing page or tell you that Apple or Google is handling it instead.
Three minutes. One step. One thing they'll be able to do that they can't today.